Whine: I wanna go to New York....

....Because there's a new production of Cyrano de Bergerac:

Ben Brantley's review


It's one of my fave plays, and one of my fave roles (Cyrano, that is, not Roxanne). And it sounds like a great production. Kevin Kline, Jennifer Garner, and Chris Sarandon as the Comte deGuiche?

Slay me.

But here's a mini whine: WHY do they always use the Burgess translation? I hate it. I vastly prefer the Brian Hooker setting. Grr.

Anyway...

Fic or Treat was a great success! I'll post my Fics (and my Treats!) later, perhaps.

Got up early this morning to drag my ass into work for our 8:00...to learn that boss D is late and we have no meeting. Argh. But on the bright side, I get to leave before 4.

And I'm downloading Episode 5 at home, I hope (if changing the settings on my computer worked), so I'll have it to watch when I get home. Yay.

More naval-gazing. I spent almost $9 on lunch yesterday! That may not seem like a lot, but understand that I normally spend less than $3 on both breakfast *and* lunch - because I brown bag both. But my milk *and* my lettuce had gone bad in the fridge at work, so I had to throw them out. With no milk, no cereal; and by lunchtime I was starving. So I got a wrap sandwich and treated myself to a latte. Between the two items it was $9! Three times my normal expense. And today I got a couple donuts for breakfast (I brought yogurt for lunch) because I didn't want to buy milk that would then sit all weekend. Somehow when I have cash I just run through it more quickly.

However, pink donuts are seriously a good thing. Okay... back to work.

Better than Halloween Candy!

Lookit my new spiffy background! It's by elethoniel and it was one of my Treats from fic-or-treat! I have tweaked my LJ layout in honour of its gorgeousness.

I also received icons from her and others:

By elethoniel:



By afrocurl:



By kari_bob:



By doomette:



By meagan868:



and by heartfelt_angel:



There was also fic:

From teffy - A John Drabble

From starxd_sparrow - A Dean Flopsy

and from seedyapartment - A very cute Crowley/Aziraphale Flopsy

And finally, a kind of nifty .mp3 from aliaspiral: "The Raven," read by Christopher Walken

I shall post all the fics I handed out momentarily. Meanwhile, hugs and "No worries" to erin2326, whose hard drive died at just the wrong time to be posting like a madwoman with fics and treats.


ETA - I missed some due to Yahell and its stupid spam filter settings.

From quiet_rebel a little Dean flopsy

and from etakyma, part 3 of a six-part ficlet!

Fic Post: Fic-or-Treat fics and some 1st line drabbles

Herein are the little flopsies (and one drabble) I wrote for my Fic-or-Treat presents. These are all basically flash fiction - unbeta'd, barely proofread, and I didn't even attempt to make them drabble-length because that's just too much work. Except for the R/S drabble, because that just kind of happened and didn't require hardly any effort to make it a drabble.

However, at the end of this post are also three drabbles I wrote using ficwriter1966's first lines from her First Lines meme/challenge.

( For Teffy, a Remus/Sirius Flopsy )

( For aoibhe, another R/S Flopsy )

( For doomette, a Remus/Sirius drabble )

( For heartfelt_angel, a bit of silly meta )

( For elethoniel, a Teen!Chesters Flopsy )

( For afrocurl, a SPN S3 Flopsy )

( For wendy, another Teen!Chesters Flopsy )

( For starxd_sparrow, a Dean Flopsy with a shout-out to the City of Bridges )

( For Sea0tter12, a John Flopsy )

This last one incorporates a joke I've had in mind for a long time, but I don't know if I'll ever actually write the fic about it. I talked about it in the comments to one of my Monday Metas over at wee_chesters here.


And then here are the ( three drabbles: )

:collapses