Dancing Around the Four Sides

Ye gods, what a profoundly dreary day. Cold and damp and grey, with a fine, thin mist drizzing the air. It's supposed to stay above freezing tonight, so I pulled the towels off the deck plants. Then I came back inside and turned the heat up.

I saw this on sholio's DW the other day and thought it was interesting -- it's a Trope Sorting Meme, and it made me laugh (in recognition) when I saw my results. Obvious attractions are obvious ...

1 Fairy Tale/Mythology AU
1 Daemons
1 Found Families
4 Enemies to Friends to Lovers
4 Hurt/Comfort
4 Friends to Lovers

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Dreamed last night that I had bought a necklace of some kind from the David Morgan store in Bothell, Washington (while I have been to Washington state, I've never been to Bothell). I was standing in the parking lot, trying to put it on, but I was having trouble fastening the clasp so I asked Mister Nightdog_barks to help me. There were three or four bald eagles nearby (like perching on the roofs of low buildings) watching. A young woman -- a clerk -- came out of the David Morgan store and started talking to me, but I was having trouble understanding her. Eventually I realized she wanted to know if I wanted to purchase an insurance policy for the necklace. I was trying to tell her "no" and still having trouble understanding her when the dream simply trailed off and ended, as dreams do. OK then, brain.

From topaz_eyes a week or so ago. :D

Rules: list the first lines of your last 20 stories. See if there are any patterns.

1) "What are you doing?" House says, although it's pretty obvious what Wilson is doing with that silvery tri-fold contraption. (Heat Wave)

2) The man in the northwest corner bed has two names on his chart, each followed by a question mark. (The Heart Could Wish)

3) "Rev'rend," the voice whispers, low and urgent in House's ear. (Kingdom Come)

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1) Vacuumed upstairs.

2) Did two loads of laundry.

3) There is a little baby tomato on one of the tomato plants, and it's not the Hot Spell or Hot Spot or whatever those plants are. I think it's an Early Girl. O_o

BONUS:

4) I took Chango for a short walk, which made her so happy she stole one of my shoes.

1) I watched the movie Nebraska, and while I'm still not sure if I really liked it (I loved a few small parts of it but absolutely hated others), it reminded me very much of an older David Lynch film from 1999 called The Straight Story. Which is a terrific little movie, and a pleasure to remember.

2) I rescued a katydid from our front porch, where it had somehow gotten itself half-trapped under our doormat. IDEK, bug. But I gently lifted it free and set it in the grass.

3) It felt really good to stretch my mind and write that little Roosevelt thing. :D

So it is still just about freezing. The high temp today is supposed to be 36 (2.2 Celsius), so maybe some of this ridiculous ice will start to/keep melting. I will now pause while my Canadian friends LAUGH AND LAUGH AT ME for thinking 2.2 C is "cold." :D

I'm still writing, both on Alaska II and on a Christmas Eve story.

The meme, which I saw on Tumblr:

Pick any passage of 500 words or less from any fanfic I’ve written, and stick that selection in a comment. I will then give you the equivalent of a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what’s going on in the character’s heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, and anything else that you’d expect to find on a DVD commentary track.

If anyone would like to give it a try, go for it and I'll do my best. *g*

Beautiful weather, bright sun and warm. Housely things to do today, including folding yesterday's laundry. But first, a meme! Started by the ever-lovely jezziejay, these are folks who (direct quote) make my eyes happy. :-D

( The Pretty Meme ...  )

Tag to anyone who would like to bring the pretty. :-D

Sunny and warm -- 75 degrees (23.9 degrees Celsius), with a light breeze out of the south southwest.

Memeage -- seen around, grabbed from perspi. Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Ask and I'll tell you the premise and/or paste you a paragraph from any of these. Confession: these actually aren't ALL of my WIP files, just the ones I have a chance of finishing before I'm ... 92, or so. Feel free to ask about more than one.

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From semyaza -- comment with "I want" and I will give you ten actors and ten actresses. Then post in your LJ with your favourite films of theirs.

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It's making the rounds; seen most recently at topaz_eyes.

Post the first lines from your last 20 stories. Do you see a pattern?

Except I get to do twenty-one because I didn't write one of these opening lines! HA! *g*

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The sound of bandsaws in the morning is just so pleasant. It makes Chango squinch her ears close to her head. Cloudy, still very damp, 66 degrees (18.8 Celsius).

Not sure yet what is on the agenda for today, but, ( because I am a sheep ...  )