Still-snowy Superbowl Sunday

Office is closed tomorrow! The government is way more generous than my last company. And there's another winter storm watch on for Tuesday-Wednesday. I am loving this winter in the "south."

I shall consider the bonus day off (well, work-at-home day, anyway) a reward for having slogged through my taxes today. Being a half-year student and half-year employee and first-time part-time self-employee and part-year resident of a new state does not make for easy paperwork.

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Random rec for a not-new story: Yesterday morning I decided to re-read smittywing's The Best Things in Life Are Free (SGA high school AU, John/Rodney, 100,000 words), only to discover that I'd never actually read it the first time. It's a wonderful, wonderful story - long and heartfelt, family-oriented, excellent pacing and spot-on voices, and with a fabulous supporting cast. It very much deserves its status as a classic of the fandom. Also, while I was younger than they were in the '80s, when it takes place, I was old enough that I can be nostalgic about it now.

Not-so-random rec for a new story: Speaking of SGA high school AUs, sabinelagrande's Weir/Caldwell student/teacher ficlet, I should, I wish I could. In the same way smittywing's reminded me of what it was like to be part of a family and in a subservient role, growing, sabine's reminds me of what it was like to be a senior in high school, a bigshot in the building, not quite an adult but not quite a child anymore either.

Have very much been enjoying bluflamingo's fics as well, starting with a complex McKay/Keller and a few Cadman/Katie Browns (Fade Out to Black made me tear up last night). They feel... adult, not in a sex sense but in the way the characters grapple with interpersonal matters. A little while back, scrollgirl's John Sheppard's Adynation (Sheppard/Cameron Mitchell) impressed me for similar reasons.

Any House recs of late? I was watching some season two reruns last night and am back in the mood for some ficcing.