Back in the swing

 
After the drama over the weekend, it’s more than a little relaxing to find myself home again. I spent about an hour with Susan last night, before she had to go to work, and a few hours this morning, before I had to leave to take care of various matters of business. Money had to be moved from account to account, I had to make payments to the cable company (to catch up) and Cingular (to get Susan’s phone service reinstituted), then drive to center-state to get some cash to our son. I’ll spend the night, make his final tuition installment payment tomorrow, then drive back home.

With the necessities of the class I was taking, followed by the worry of Susan’s seeming disappearance, I accomplished precisely nothing in fanfic terms during my time in Pennsylvania. I’ll return to the writing routine starting tomorrow. Even so, however, a few fanfic-related things have happened.

First, I got the graphic for my (sort of) win in the latest round of the Serenity on the Hellmouth Awards: my story “Ex Post Facto” tied for third place for Best Wesley Fic. Always gratifying, but a little surprising; a number of my stories were nominated at SotHA this round, and I would have thought “Ex Post Facto” to be one of the weaker candidates. I’ll take it and be happy for the recognition, but I’ll have to admit that I wouldn’t have foreseen that one coming out ahead of a number of stories that I liked better.

Second, well after I would have thought people would have moved on to other subjects, “Jasmine Tears (the Pang of Memory Remix)” was cited at su_herald. For some reason it attracted little notice at remixredux08 — though spiralleds posted some extremely flattering feedback, and then recommended it on her own LJ — and I figured that was that. Nice to see that someone outside my immediate family liked it. To the best of my memory, this is only the second time anything of mine has been mentioned at su_herald, and I don’t even remember now what was the first.

Current plans: watch a DVD, then on to bed.