this sense of penetration with a headache is misleading. it's from muscles, or blood vessels.

[cimorene]

wax is possessed by the inexplicable urge to read several hours' worth of bad unfinished harry/draco. with no room in the armchair with her, and my laptop out of batteries, i retreat strategically to the bed with a headache and a pen filched from granny's cup thereof in the kitchen.

daddy sent me a 'letter' today. his letters consist of a few lines and the reminder that i get my updates via email, lest i forget and think he has written nothing because i'm not worth it to him. also, about twenty little pages torn off a desk calendar--cartoons from the new yorker, and two retired far sides from his old office, which was nearly papered with such things and newspaper clippings.

two portraits of wax later in blue pen i tire of drawing from life and retreat into cartoony stylings. elves. and a dress pattern, sort of, and two musings on the baby blanket for hollsk's sean of our favorite Good/Evil OTP.

the playlist reaches its old school no doubt section.

a short stack of sour cream and onion pringles do nothing to cure the headache. i almost fall asleep. it has only been fifteen minutes when i look at the clock again. (i used to be able to tell you when all the periods of middle school began and ended. i vividly remember watching the clock through seventh grade biology, and ninth grade band practice.)

wax compared a particular bad h/d to david eddings today--'another body of bad writing i know little about,' i said. now she is reading the copy of the terry pratchett book she got out last week, when a chance snip of conversation reminded her of a line. she read the first chapter aloud at that time.

tea has been quiet all day, but lily's been noisy and whiny and inconsolable.

and my head still hurts.

Comments

[hollsh.livejournal.com]

EEEE!!! My Sean!!!

[servalan.livejournal.com]

Indeed, some of the h/d in the world can be horrid. Yet somehow it's more compelling than reading an actual book (or, in my case, homework).

And on the topic of fanfiction, you may remember filling out my economics of fanfiction survey on livejournal in November.

Thank you soooo much for filling out the survey. I had a lot of really good data for that paper.

In fact, I got an A on said paper. This means that my argument must have been pretty convincing (especially since this was graded by a professional economic regulator).

You will surely be interested to know that I can say with complete conviction:

Fanfiction is good for society, should you do an economic style cost-benefit analysis. (I could probably also say that fanfiction is allocatively efficient, but I'd want to do more research before making such a stark claim.)

Moral of the story: keep reading and writing! **grin**

I really wasn't expecting fanfic to be good for the world. I thought maybe it would be okay in moderation, but the final conclusion really was that fanfic is socially beneficial. Wow.

Thanks again for filling out the survey!
Janine
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