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I awoke this morning to discover that I'd received another little gift from Yuletide: Something Unalterably Deranged, a fic based on Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia," written by Elizabeth as a New Year's Resolution challenge.

It's set after the events of the play, in the hermitage -- and, as you might guess if you know the original, the fic is haunted and sad and lovely. I adore Stoppard's work because it's always about umpteen different things at once ("Arcadia" could fairly be said to concern love, sex, poetry, mathematics, landscape gardening, the Romantic era, literary scholarship, and the impossibility of truly grasping history -- and that's the short list), and this fic captures that spirit beautifully. Go, read.

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Meanwhile... I've been more than usually absent, and I apologize for that. I'm feeling very disconnected from fandom lately, like I just don't have the energy for stories at the moment. And that's kind of tragic. (Not to imply that my life is tragic these days, just... low on fiction.) I haven't seen the last couple episodes of SV yet. Haven't had much interest in fic. I don't even know if I have a primary fandom at present, and I further don't know if that bothers me. Presumably sooner or later I'll snap out of it and drift back to this stuff. It's a little weird that, in this state of mind, I'll be attending my first con in a few weeks, but maybe I'll feel different by then. Or maybe Escapade will touch off a fandom renaissance of some sort. In any case, sorry I've not been around. I think of all you guys fondly, even when I go way too long without checking LJ.

You know that part in The Princess Bride where Inigo's trying to fill Westley in on everything that happened while he was dead, and he starts off by saying "Let me explain," then realizes it's hopeless and switches to, "No, there is too much, let me sum up"?

Yeah. What he said.

To start with, ( yuletide rocked. )
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Of course, as part of Yuletide, I also ( wrote a thing: )
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And then there was ( New Year's. )
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And now the last of our houseguests have gone, the temperature outside has dropped below zero degrees fahrenheit, and it's time to start thinking about actual work again.

Happy 2008, everybody.

Dear Yuletide writer,

First of all, thank you in advance. This is the first time I've participated in Yuletide, and the idea that somebody out there is writing a story just for me is incredibly cool. I can't wait to see what you've come up with. I've hardly ever seen *any* fic in my requested fandoms, so this is a tremendously exciting thing for me, and I'm fairly certain to love whatever you've done. I'm psyched just thinking about it.

I want to give you a heads-up: I'm going to be traveling, with no computer access, through December 27. So as much as I wish I could read your story at the first possible moment, I won't be able to see it until 12/27 at the earliest (and that's assuming I don't get stuck in an airport somewhere, which always seems to happen to me). Please don't think my lack of response in the first few days indicates anything other than simple absence. Happily, I should definitely be back by the time authors are revealed, so I won't miss my chance to thank you directly. I just won't be around for the first few days of squee.

Thanks again, and I hope you have/are having a fantastic holiday season.

-Slinkling

Huzzah! I've finished a draft of my Yuletide story, and it's in the capable hands of my beta-readers. I'm actually quite relieved about this, as the only other time I've signed up for a fic challenge, I left it to the last minute and then had to default. I feel like I've regained a little honor here, having completed a draft a couple weeks before deadline. The writing even went pretty well, once I got my head around what I was doing.

And in general I'm feeling fairly accomplished at the moment. Last week I got new tires put on my car, and not a moment too soon, as we've got some serious snow happening today and I had to go out this morning before the roads had been cleared. (Praise is due to the friendly folks at Mister Tire, as my valiant little car did not slip AT ALL. There was much petting of the dashboard.) Hanukkah starts tomorrow night and I am READY; twenty-four presents bought, wrapped, and sent off to their respective destinations, baby. (Why yes, I *do* have a very big family. Then again, I get a lot of gifts at holiday season, so it's okay.) I got my hair cut earlier today so it won't be all mangy and split-endy when I see my in-laws later this month; I don't especially like going to salons, but the scalp-massage that happens with the shampoo is just a delicious thing. And speaking of deliciousness, I bought some groceries, and this afternoon I'll make pizza and possibly bread (a test to see whether the dough I've learned how to make really will, as promised, work as well for panini as it does for pizza crust). AND I don't have to go anywhere else today, so I can enjoy the snow-globe view out our windows without worrying about road conditions. And now it is time for lunch. :-)

1) I have signed up for

yuletide this year. Which was possibly foolish of me, but I'm going to assume that it'll be fun. If nothing else, stretching to write in a fandom I'm not used to ought to be interesting. I think I offered 8 fandoms, only one of which I've dabbled in previously. The people who offer dozens upon dozens blow my mind.

2) I saw last night's SV! Like, on TV and everything! The night that it aired! This is entirely thanks to the generosity of

kassrachel, who was even game enough to sit through it with me while I tried to explain who these people were and what was going on. Of course, it was quite late in the evening by the time we watched it, and I'd had a couple glasses of wine, so my mind was not what I'd call razor-sharp. But ( cutting for spoilers... )

3) Also last night, Kass and I ran into an old friend of ours, a guy who was my dearest friend and practically the center of my world when I was 18. We gradually drifted apart in the years after that, and I hadn't seen him or been in touch with him at all in more than 9 years. He's now a theatrical designer -- in every possible sense of "theatrical" -- and talking to him, I was struck by how it's like talking to a blend of the guy I used to know and Darren Nichols (link goes to YouTube, so may be NSFW). He kind of always had the Darren Nichols thing going on, to some degree, but now it's, er, blossomed. It was very, very hard to keep from giggling once I figured out who he was reminding me of.

4) I was away from home and computer-less for much of this week, and on Monday I'm leaving for a two-week trip during which I shall also be computer-less. Hence my absence from all sorts of nifty and/or wanky fandom things. Le sigh. I'll be more communicative in November, I swear.

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