Few things.......

[lunabee34]

First off, Happy Birthday authoressnebula. I'm pretty sure you don't read my journal, but warm wishes all the same.

Secondly, if you enjoy my students-are-insane posts, check out these two offerings posted in my grad student friend djdarksoul's lj.

The Tattoo Saga, Part 1

The Tattoo Saga, Part 2

Be sure to read his brief explanations before the papers begin.

Thirdly, all you Star Trek junkies on my flist, rejoice. Arguably the best Star Trek novel writer (we're talking TNG here), Peter David, is writing a graphic novel about Spike. I think my squeees can be heard all across the globe. I mean, Peter David is brilliant. I want to have his novelist babies. He can do funny like nobody's fucking business. And when he wants to get angsty--whoa, mama.

Fourthly, and finally, I know most of you won't read gen or het, but I'm reading this story right now that's just blowing me out of the water. It's by liz_marcs and is one of the most brilliant things I've read in quite some time. It's called Water Hold me Down. There are nominal pairings (X/F, X/A), but it's not a ship-driven piece. It's completely character-driven. If you are at all interested in the character of Xander (and particularly his relationship (meant in a non-slashy way, although I suppose you could be subtexty with it if you wished) with Giles), this is something you must read.

Comments

[shannon730.livejournal.com]

I know, I kept thinking "is there some new strain of HIV that I haven't heard of?" It's not even that I've never seen it written that way, I worked for 10 years in a pharmacy and test results will be written that way because, well, doctors are lazy. It was the you can get HIV+ that was throwing me off I think.

Although as I told Lorraine, these things make me much less concerned about whether or not I can really go back to school. If this is what they're writing I can do that. :)

[djdarksoul.livejournal.com]

"If this is what they're writing I can do that. :)"

as the one who had to grade the tatoo saga let me let out an unequivocable (and Darth Vader-like) NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!