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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:


  1. My 24 Season 4 DVDs arrived by mail, and I’m now partway through the fourth of six disks.
     
  2. Under the merciless impetus of [livejournal.com profile] 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).
     
  3. 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.
     
  4. 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.
     
  5. Our detachment commander departed for home leave yesterday, so I’m covering all detachment coordination by myself for the moment.
     
  6. 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 [livejournal.com profile] 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.

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