obsessively opposed to the typical

[aria]

to do (real life things)

unpack car, repack for Madison :(
haircut, doctor's appt., see if I need a new glasses prescription
go to WisCon :DDD
find a sublet/apartment
find a paying job
find a girlfriend? find a girlfriend
magically learn how to cook


to watch

[italicized=never seen it, asterixed=am not caught up/not completed, nothing=just feel the need for a rewatch; PS I shouldn't, but I am totally open for recs here]

Babylon 5*
Blackadder
Black Books
Caprica
Community
Chuck*
Leverage*
Merlin*
My Life as a Dog
Sarah Jane Adventures*
The Thick of It
Treme
Torchwood: Children of Earth


to write

Burning Down the House [due South, crazy!Fraser]
The Care and Feeding of Your Atomic Bomb [Doctor Who, Rose/Martha]
Neutral Zone [due South, epic s2-and-onward AU]
No Second Coming [Dark is Rising, a goddamn sequel novella]
Such Deliberate Disguises [Doctor Who, um, Master/human!Ten]
The Windhover [due South, that Victoria fic I keep talking about]
untitled post-Waters of Mars AU where Ten is evil
hopefully an Amy/Rory fic
the story that was my screenplay project but wants to be a novel when it grows up


I am hoping that I will at least accomplish all of the things in the real life to do list (even the girlfriend one and the cooking one, because a girl can dream); I am hoping I will accomplish at least half of the things in the to write list; and I sort of hope that, out of my to-watch list, the only one I will make any real effort on will be Babylon 5, because I would honestly rather sacrifice that list to the other two than the reverse.

Comments

[thornyrose42]

My inner kid now desperately wants to read the Dark Is Rising sequel. I read a couple before. One in particular that I really liked (with the one dislike that Simon turned out to be the spy) but have never been able to find since. Anyway the ending of the last book always struck me as a "Problem of Susan" type thing. Horrible, seriously talk about a brilliant series with a "Oh Hell no! WTF is with the amnesia?" whiplash ending.

[aria]

Ohhh yes, the whiplash ending. My fic is mostly about fixing everything that I found problematic about the ending, which ... somehow turned out to be a lot of pages of fixing. I aim to have it done by Midsummer, because that feels appropriate. :D

[thornyrose42]

Yeah, that would be appropriately mythical.

I think the ending is especially if you read it as a kid. You've just been on all these fantastic (in both senses) adventures and then you are basically told you can't cope with them? Ugh.

I re-read the books fairly recently and while I still love them for nostalgic value and atmosphere and the characters... actually I just still love them full stop, but they are very... collect all of the above items in order to defeat the boss.

I love Jane as a character.

[thornyrose42]

Also, as a recentish cooking convert, cooking for other people makes it so much more fun. For one thing, instant concrit and when it turns out well there is nothing more satisfying than a thumbs up and a clean plate.