• Christmas Day was really lovely. We had family come over unexpectedly for a few hours. First of all, my cousin brought his three kids around - they're aged 5, 4 and 3 - and we took them to the park for a little bit while he went to meet some friends. Then, when we got back, my uncle and other cousin (who we haven't seen in ages) were there. It was really good to see them and it was a nice surprise. Aside from those couple of hours, we had quite a quiet day with just the five of us plus Kizzie in the house. I helped my Mum make the Christmas dinner this year and it turned out pretty well :) Then, on Boxing Day, another cousin (the pregnant one) visited with her partner and his son and it was good to see them, too!

• I got some lovely presents - Supernatural Season Six, money towards A8, a new purse (which I really wasn't expecting), some make-up, some cds and other things. I think my Mum really liked her presents from us, too, although she said we'd spent too much money on her!

• The writing has been going better - I managed to break through the block and I've written almost 4,000 words. Problem is, that's 4000 words of one of the fics that was meant to only be a few k long. I'm hoping to finish it tonight and then get to work on some of the other prompts too! Speaking of, though, is there anyone who'd be willing to beta a timestamp to my big bang 'Pages Turn' (the J2 bookstore fic) for me? I'm not sure how long it's going to be when it's done, probably about 7k, maybe a little bit longer. It is NC-17, just fyi.

• I'm still looking for an end of the year meme - either a general one or a one summing up fandom/fic experience in 2011 or something similar.

• Ask me something random :D I'm in a random kind of mood!

• I really liked the latest episode of Leverage - I've been working on a reaction post but I haven't finished it yet. And I loved the Christmas special of Downton Abbey - can't believe how long we have to wait for the next season! What did you guys think about the episodes? (Either/or/and!)

• Going to the pantomime again next Thursday - it's at a different theatre and it's more of an amateur performance than the last one but it should still be fun. It's a Brownie trip but we had a spare ticket so one of my friends is able to come as well.
• I'm booked up for two gigs in January - The Maine and All Time Low on one night and then Panic at the Disco the week after.
• Going to see Calamity Jane at the theatre in April. 
• Asylum 8 (!)

Sorry, I know I've posted quite a bit today but I forgot to mention this before and I figure it warrants a post of it's own anyway. I kind of had a thought the other day. I was thinking about how there should be more fic about John Winchester and I thought it would be awesome to do a comment meme with prompts focusing on John/ featuring John. Then I started thinking about other characters.

So, basically, my idea is to do a fortnightly comment meme focusing on different characters each time that people think are maybe underappreciated/there needs to be more fic about. The prompts won't necessarily have to be focused on that particular character but would have to feature them. I don't know, does anyone like that idea?

Anyway, the reason I'm bringing it up here is because you all know me - I can't code/use html to save my life so I was wondering whether anyone would like to team up on something like this. I'd help with creating the rules/making sure everything is running smoothly and adding to masterlists and things like that if someone else could do coding and perhaps create some banners and things.

So, if anyone is interested let me know and we can chat more about it and try to figure something out :)

P.S. Personally, I'd love to do a similar thing for Leverage, too :)

*waves*

Hey everyone. How are you all doing today? Good, I hope.

I kind of just realised that I haven't done any revision today so guess what I'm doing tonight! I got totally distracted trying to code my big bang. Guys, I think that the thing I hate most in the world is HTML. I just can't use it. I spent the whole afternoon trying to but in the end I've had to cheat and use rich text a bit too because I just couldn't do it :/ I think it still looks okay and I've managed to include the wonderful art by tinkabell007 so hopefully everything will be okay.

I'm feeling kind of nervous about posting now. There's going to be a lot of people reading these fics, you know? And this is the first time I've taken part so I'm just hoping people will like it.

Keeping with the writing theme, I wrote a oneshot yesterday so I'm wondering whether anyone would beta it for me. It's a Sam/Dean fic, about 2.5k and there isn't a great deal of hurry to get it back to me straight away or anything.

I'm back in school for a couple of hours for revision sessions tomorrow but I'm still off for most of the day so I'm going to really try and work hard during the day and then I can have the night off again. Honestly, though, I feel like I know this exam already and that I don't need to do much revision. And then that makes me feel awful because it sounds like I'm being arrogant - I just honestly feel confident with the material and I feel like I've worked hard all year with this subject and now I haven't got much left to do.

I think I penciled in an afternoon off on my revision timetable for Friday so I'll finally be able to catch up on BB fics and all the other fics people on my flist have posted. I hate not being able to keep up with everything at the moment!
 

• Gone to Stanford University? Either as a student there or a visitor or even just for an open day.
• Been to the area surrounding the campus?
• Lived in the are surrounding the campus?

• Happy Birthday mysticwaters ! I hope you have a really awesome, brilliant, fun-filled day. *hugs*

• I'm still looking for someone to beta that Sam/Dean fic :)

• I have a thing at the university tomorrow - going to meet up with someone I've been talking to online who is doing a similar course to me. Hopefully it'll be a good chance to meet some people so that I have friends at the summer school in July.

• I wrote loads yesterday. I did lots of revision today. I figure that balances it out :)