So much for winter break...

I booked bus tickets home for the weekend, and somehow "Whee! The semester's over and I have all the time in the world to sleep and read and write fic and wander around the city!" became "Aack, got to finish this thesis thing and rewrite that last assignment and email a hundred people and then call half of them and go to dinner with my classmates and send out the remaining holiday cards and pack to get home to see people and go to the ex-company Christmas party my ex-boss invited me to and the dentist and start Chanukah and read this book and come back in time for synn but I haven't done any holiday shopping—" Frowny face. This weekend looks like it'll be taking the place of what Thanksgiving usually is, crowded and short on time in questionable weather. Unless—and I'd be happy if this were the case—it just seems frantic now but will instead be filled with open spaces of time in which to do the aforementioned reading/writing/relaxing/gift-getting.

Things I did read that you should too, if you like SGA:

• A Boyfriend for Christmas by scribblinlenore - Great line after great line. A sweet romance at its heart, with just the right amount of angst and hot sex. "I'm not expecting you to put out, okay?" Rodney blurted out. "You're my consolation present, not actually my-- And it's not as if you're a hooker or something." He paused, thinking about how natural John was at faking intimacy. "You're not, are you?"


• Stargazing at sga_santa - I love sci fi. SGA doesn't go far enough most of the time. This story does: an Earth-based AU with a permanently buggy Sheppard and an android Rodney. Slash. Rodney holds him, steady and tight and smelling faintly of ozone. Familiar.


• Woven Together, Seamless at sga_santa - Sweet, funny, poignant team friendship, somewhat Teyla-centric, one wine-mellowed night offworld. She smiled again. "I have guarded the herds since I could walk, and have kept watch over my own people for nearly ten years now. I know a fellow guardian when I see one. Teyla explained to me the meaning of your name: Sheppard, one who protects."

I only made it through the first day's entries at that community; I'm sure many more gems have gone up.

It snowed last night, I think; woke up to a dark morning with slush on the ground. Rumor has it we're due for six inches Friday, though I won't be here to see it.

An email went out to my dorm yesterday: "Does anyone has scales? I have to weight my luggages." I think the person's first language is not English, but it sounded too much like lolcats not to share.

Okay, errands and work time again.