Dreams and Swords

1) Hey, are Jaina Solo and a nice Mando boy flirting? They are! You are partially redeemed in my eyes, Troy Denning.

2) An NCIS marathon.

3) Chattering with Puck about how awesome Grand Admiral Thrawn and Grand Admiral Pellaeon are.

4) Motormaster getting his thunder-god on.

5) Cirya'tlan getting her bossy twi'lek on. Kaszas getting his zabrak bastard on.

5) Three pairs of sexy new jeans.
4) Spending time with my aunt and uncle in our annual Christmas gift shopping trip.
3) Assorted sensual HK/Adara mental images. Because my brain doesn't turn off, and I was tuned to romance all during my shower. Which was better than the alternative: being tuned to Dark Adara rupturing people's internal organs and being a psychotic horror.
2) BCS Championship!
1) Finished The Doomsday Brunette.

Because I think I need to start doing these things again.

5) A well-written Star Wars EU novel. One friend and one bookstore employee have recommended Republic Commando: Hard Contact to me unsolicited, so I think this will be awesome.

4) Pee-Dee testing Mirage's loyalties by making out.

3) Henkei Silverbolt. I should actually take him out of his box.

2) My BPAL imps from telophase arrived. Now I actually have to sit down and figure out how to test them for interesting sensory effects.

1) GAIA is a marvelous time-waster when I don't feel like thinking.

5. The hospital finally let Dad come home after holding him for a night longer than they originally said they would.

4. Watching "Zuko Alone" and "The Chase". ( Spoilers )

3. Trading bizarre pop music videos with Dun. Also, the video for Avril What's-Her-Face's "Girlfriend" makes me want to slap a bitch.

2. I got reminded that being depressed makes it hard for me to write, and I shouldn't beat myself up over not being able to work on a story. When my brain is just refusing, trying to force it and then feeling horrible for that not working just makes the situation worse.

1. Jess.

I always seem to wind up writing these things the morning after.

6) I am slowly but surely getting this Transformers fic to the point where Motormaster tackles Silverbolt and they snog. Once I finally get that going on, it's a downhill slide to the finish, because I know exactly what happens and have had the visuals in my head for weeks now.

5) Watched Bones. Dr. Brennan was slightly more socially awkward than usual, Hodgins and Angela are absolutely adorable together, and the crime was interestingly creepy. Also, ignoring the points up to where our criminal was trying out the insanity defense/the ghost got involved, it was fairly believable to me that he would lose his temper with the victim when the victim started deliberately terrifying the girl who was already on a bad, bad PCP trip.

4) I added the Howdunit writer's guide books to my Amazon wishlist. There is a book on wounds and injuries! And a book on PIs! Eeeeeee! *flails happily*

3) Roleplaying 2K5 Pee-Dee and Nightbeat with Luna. Not, like, actually on 2K5, but using 2K5 backgrounds for them in some chat-RP. Drunken Nightbeat's life is made infinitely more amusing by the Junkion dame on walkabout. (Amusing to me, anyway. ^_^)

2) Watched more Avatar last night. We've only got the "Siege of the North" two-parter left in Season One. Admiral Butthead and Prince Crankypants remain awesome. Uncle Iroh, of course, is smarter than everyone else on the show. Sokka roxxors my boxxors. ( Spoilers )

1) Staying up until an ungodly hour of the morning roleplaying Avatar OCs with Puck. Liang is so cute and awesome, and Torao is just plain awesome. Of course, I am horribly biased, but the two of them are such fun together.

Because sometimes I need to remind myself about these things.

5. Bones is on tonight! There shall be more of Dr. Brennan being thoroughly not good at this human thing, more of Booth being awesome, and more of the two of them being adorable together. There will also be more of Hodgins, Angela, and Zack being major awesome. Plus, you know, forensic science.

4. I am reading The Spice Route: A History by John Keay. It is sometimes overwrought in the language it uses to describe things, but it is lighting me up in the same way Salt did. Trade, especially trade in foodstuffs, fascinates me. This explains the bevy of new books that have been added to my Amazon wishlist.

I want to write novels (fantasy, historical, science fiction, kumquat) about trade! What people do for trade and trade goods is amazing.

3. I mailed things today! Yes, once again I conquered my tendency to let packages sit in my room, and I got them to the post office. They are now in the postal system and going off to people.

2. I downloaded yWriter4 today and have been happily playing around with it for hours. Freeware for organizing your novel-writing in? Squee! The interface isn't immediately intuitive, but the QuickStart guide provided on the web page helped a lot. It looks to be very helpful, especially in terms of collecting information about characters, locations, and so on in an easily locatable place.

Given my previous tendency was to create massive text files of notes, this strikes me as way, way better for long projects.

1. Some extremely cursory research has confirmed that the basic premise for an original character in an original, paranormal setting isn't too far out to lunch. This needs to be followed up with more research on Egypt and Santa Fe.