YAY! Unexpected free afternoon!

[bironic]

Unprecedented news: We are being let out at 12 today. Not in honor of Halloween, of course, but because of server problems that kept our IT team here overnight and are still preventing us from doing most of our work. In my three and a half years here, we've never been let go this early, not for blizzards, not for broken air conditioning in the middle of summer, not for holiday weekends, not for power outages, not for malfunctioning equipment or failed connections necessary for us to do our jobs.

SIX FREE HOURS. I think I'm going to try to work on my Big Bang story. That, or try for a fic for karaokegal's Halloween party (nothing like a last-minute costume), although I'm at once bombarded with ideas* and bereft of inspiration and/or something concrete on which to build a story. I've been kind of pathetically sad at not having a story for the party. Or in general. Prompts are still very welcome....

(*So far have considered: trying to finish the Ali fic segment; a story without Wilson; first person POV; emo; over-the-top purple-prose-type fic parody; Mary Sue; vampire!House; something with the ghosts of House's former patients; story in a fandom I haven't written in before; a rewriting of "Ethan Brand" with House or McKay (suitably spooky); and other stuff I can't remember. Nothing that has sparked any actual text, unfortunately.)

ETA: Ladies and gentlemen, we have an idea. Now to see how long it takes to write....

6:00 - 900 words


Happy Halloween!

Comments

[perspi.livejournal.com]

EEEEE THIS IS AWESOME.

As for what to work on? You have SO MANY fun ideas. And your BIGBANG story! EEE! Oh, I can't wait to see what you do.

Me, I'm alternating between work-work and my SGA-story-work. Heh.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Yay SGA story! It's coming along really nicely; sorry haven't commented lately.

I'm hoping that this infusion of excitement at the sudden freedom will translate into story-writing energy -- if I can focus on one story. Plus, I can get a burrito for lunch from a place by my house. Mmm, burrito.

[zulu.livejournal.com]

Dude, that rocks! Me, I'm taking a vacation day my own self, and I've already been so productive this morning it's insane. Not, sadly, the fun-productive of fic, but getting a ton of stuff out of the way on time for NaNo to start this evening. Have an awesome afternoon!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It is exciting.

Getting errands done can really be a huge help in settling your mind down for fic-writing, don't you think? Good luck with everything, and enjoy your afternoon too!

[musicisbelievng.livejournal.com]

Yay free time! Yay burrito you wanted last night!

There are supposed to be small children in costumes coming around this afternoon to trick-or-treat in the Village... which is far less cool than being home, but it could be fun.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Just got home -- ended up going to K. for sushi lunch. Yum. Burrito some other time.

Have fun later. Sorry couldn't find the CD. I expect a report when next we meet about any adorable kids.

[musicisbelievng.livejournal.com]

Or you could wrap yourself up in tin foil and go as leftovers to Chipotle. I hear they're giving free burritos to people who come in with tin foil costumes. (*please note that Chipotle is owned by McDonalds so I don't really support this endeavor. I kind of just wanted an excuse to use the quote.)

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Leftovers FTW. Never heard of Chipotle.

[musicisbelievng.livejournal.com]

It's like Qudoba and Green Cactus, but umm, owned by McDonalds.

So far, we've had one Wolverine, a bunch of warlocks, some princesses, zombies, a hobo, a really adorable bear (kid couldn't have been more than 1), a pilot (also cute), some pirates (one dad made quite the Jack Sparrow), twin NASCAR drivers, and some weird old wizard-type kid (who was not Gandolf or Dumbledore.

Funny that we've had more kids come by the office today than by the house in 5 years. Hmmf.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Only takes, what, one? Two? Heh. The parade sounds adorable. And fannish. *makes three-fingered Wolverine slashy motions*