Current events
Dec. 18th, 2005 05:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
While I was continuing to polish and post “Glass Ceiling”, I didn’t really say much about what else was going on in my life. Some of the highlights:
- My 24 Season 4 DVDs arrived by mail, and I’m now partway through the fourth of six disks.
- Under the merciless impetus of
yahtzee63’s continuing writings in that fandom, I bought Seasons 3 and 4 of Alias, and ordered Seasons 1 and 2 from Amazon. That should hold me for awhile (especially since, being a purist — not obsessive-compulsive — I can’t begin till Season 1 arrives).
- I went out on a few more missions, half by helicopter and half by ground convoy. Nobody shot at me, and I didn’t shoot at them. It’s a working arrangement.
- My OIC told me he intended to send me out to one of the firebases sometime in mid- to late January, to give me a paper record of the field experience that would facilitate my next promotion. To make sure I’m ready for the physical demands, I’ve been walking the compound daily, wearing full battle-rattle and carrying a 60-pound rucksack. Not really pushing myself, just general conditioning.
- Our detachment commander departed for home leave yesterday, so I’m covering all detachment coordination by myself for the moment.
- I keep getting story ideas. Nice to know the fount hasn’t dried up, but sometimes I wish I could get the chance to finish the current crop before I’m hit with another batch.
One more thing. A couple of months back, I grouped the Buffyfics I’ve done in alphabetical order, and got the sudden impulse to have a title for each letter of the alphabet. Progress so far:
- A — “All Ye Who Enter”
- B — not yet written
- C — “Come to My Window”
- D — “Dusk Over Pompeii”
- E — “Each Proud Division”
- F — not yet written
- G — “Glass Ceiling”
- H — “Hell Hath No Fury”
- I — “In Ev’ry Angle Greet”
- J — no ideas so far
- K — no ideas so far
- L — no ideas so far
- M — “Morning’s Echo”
- N — “None So Blind”
- O — no ideas so far
- P — “Point of Focus”
- Q — not yet written (nor can I start until
sroni gets me a first draft)
- R — “Rorschach”
- S — “Shadow and Substance”
- T — “Tip of My Tongue”
- U — no ideas so far
- V — “Voices in the Dark”
- W — “Whisper of a Moment”
- X — no ideas so far
- Y — not yet written
- Z — no ideas so far
That’s eleven stories I’ll have to write in order to meet my goal. Eight in a year is my record; I’ll probably equal that during this deployment, but eleven in the next four months is a bit much to hope for. No, I don’t count drabbles.
A week until Christmas. That actually means less to me than the fact that we’ve been here almost six months already.