User:	faynia
	Date:	2009-11-07 00:35
	Subject:	Every Weeping Cock Has Its Day
	Security:	Public

MY POST IS NSFW.

But first, a Word Count update! \o/





And now, because you've all been indulging me lately, a tasty snippet.


"Malfoy…Draco? Your cock it's…" Harry smirked, swiping his thumb over the wet head. Malfoy's hips jerked beneath him. "It's crying. It's crying tears of sperm."

A pillow smacked him in the face, and Harry fell over laughing.

"I abhor you, Potter," Malfoy grunted into the mattress.

Harry only laughed harder.


Now, to cut this or not to cut this. That is the question.

	User:	madam_minnie
	Date:	2009-11-06 22:07
	Subject:	Just a few thoughts
	Security:	Public
	Mood:	hopeful
	Music:	Las Vegas recorded on TV

Just a few points today:

• My final grade for school posted today and I'm ecstatic that it was a 98.5% it brought my GPA up to 3.8 which is still shy of honors but not by much. I can't even begin to tell you how great it feels to be done with school.


• Found a loaner Blackberry at work so I'm not without a phone this weekend. A new one's been ordered for me so it's only temporary but the poor thing is so old it has the Cingular logo on it. Hehehehe. It gets my email and I can get text and make calls so it's good for now.


• Mom finally caved and signed up for a 2-year contract with T-Mobile. She's been month to month for close to 10 years. I kid you not! In that time she's paid bills ranging from $140 to $210 but wouldn't sign a contract. I could not get her to budge. Today, she finally agreed and we got new phones and added the daughter to the plan.


• Tonight is family game night so we're waiting for orlando_mcnally to come home from his Poker gig to play. I should've taken a nap like I usually do. It's usually a late night.


• I'm going to search for silver and green Christmas decorations tomorrow. It's a Slytherin year. If you'd like to send me Christmas decorations this year in lieu of cards, I would greatly appreciate it.


• My medical benefits have gone up for next year but I had to choose the non-deductible plan. The plan I have now is $500 family deductible and we haven't even met that this year and it's NOVEMBER. Plan premium's gone up by $100 per month, at least I'm hoping it's per month and not biweekly or I'm going to have a coronary.

	User:	faynia
	Date:	2009-11-06 20:46
	Subject:	Happy, Smiley Poems
	Security:	Public

My toes are partially numb but I am in a ridiculously happy mood. Why? I went to see Poe Evermore at the PA Ren. Faire tonight.

I spent a half an hour silently shipping Irving/Longfellow. Longfellow blew a cork into Irving's ear. Mary Shelly had a mental fit. And Poe cracked jokes about his own stories, and gave us the run down of Pit and the Pendulum and The Fall of the House of Usher in under a minute.

He also insisted The Stylus would only involve happy, smiley poems.

Yeah. Yeah, it just was that kind of show.

	User:	faynia
	Date:	2009-11-06 12:35
	Subject:	R.A.D and Tom Riddle
	Security:	Public

I don't often think meta thoughts on HP, but when I do they tend to not leave me alone until I share them. Funnily enough, this thought dawned on me as I was showering today. I'm also just as certain someone else thought of this long before I even knew what it was, but Tom Riddle has classic R.A.D. And it has flipped my view of him as a character upside down.

For those who don't know, R.A.D is Reactive Attachment Disorder and it is a diagnosable syndrome. R.A.D is often mistaken for ADHD or even ODD, but it differs in the fact that its onset is during infancy to year two. R.A.D is caused by a number of different things including lack of affection, touch, eye contact during infancy.

Is it hard to imagine that in a run down orphanage Tom was not held enough as a baby, or even touched enough. Remember all those incidents that Mrs. Cole said were strange and how no one wanted to really be near him?

Here is just a small list of noticeable traits children with R.A.D have:
1. Weak Crying
2. Extreme resistance to cuddling
3. No reciprocal smiles
4. Superficially engaging or charming
5. A strong need for control
6. Indiscriminately affectionate
7. Destruction of self, other people, or objects
8. Cruel to animals, friends, or siblings
9. Poor peer relations
10. Demanding
11. Steals and lies
12. No conscience
13. Poor impulse control
14. Preoccupation with blood, gore, other nasty things
15. Abnormal speech


As I said, I'm sure plenty of people have already thought of this, but it was pretty illuminating to me.

Thoughts?

	User:	faynia
	Date:	2009-11-06 11:57
	Subject:
	Security:	Public

Because I told eeyore9990 two days ago? yesterday? that I'd spam the heck out of my flist with word count updates, you all get to be subjected to a lovely screencap of my comp screen as visual proof!

*mad cackling*

I've changed my mind about updating every 100 words. Instead, you're getting this every 1000 words. Since I was still at 6000 words yesterday, I haven't had the opportunity to update until now.

Behold!

( WILL YOU LOOK AT THIS? )

	User:	madam_minnie
	Date:	2009-11-05 13:53
	Subject:	It's a wonder I can still dress myself
	Security:	Public
	Mood:	bitchy
	Music:	Aquarium tank

Talk about having a bad day! I was feeling achy yesterday afternoon and by 3 o'clock I knew I needed to leave the office if I was going to make it home in one piece. The aches are arthritic, I know this and I get them from time to time when the barometric pressure changes so not overly concerned but I know that if I don't get home, take some painkillers and lie down, I end up feeling like the Tin Man. Anyway, got home, took meds, crawled into bed and slept for an hour. Felt better and even got to watch the full Yankees/Phillies game (GO YANKS!) before my head started to ache. Took an ibuprofen and went to bed. Forgot that I'd left my unfinished coffee on my bedside table and fell promptly asleep.

Alarm goes off at 5:30 and my head is reeling. I can barely open my eyes in the almost black room (I keep all the curtains closed off real tight) and reach for the Blackberry to snooze the alarm. I do so, put it back in the cradle and go back to sleep. 10 minutes later, the snooze goes off and I decide that I should really just call in. Reaching for the Blackberry with one eye open, I find that I've dunked it in my coffee cup. Yes, I'm a dork! Panicked, I sit up fast which did not help my headache ONE BIT and take the phone into the bathroom where the light almost knocks me over. Migraine! Lovely! I try to dry it off with my hairdryer with cool air (thank God for that feature or I'd fry the phone) but it's no use. I can still hear a bit of the coffee swishing around inside. Dammit!

I try to wake my daughter up (as it's now past 6:10 and she needs to be at the bus stop by 6:30) and find she's in pain too. Lower back, beginnings of a UTI. She's had so many of them we can diagnose her without medical intervention, I kid you not. No fever but achy. I go back to my bed, wake hubby to help her and explain that I have to e-mail my bosses and let them know I won't be in today. While he helps her get into the bathroom and take a shower (usually helps her muscles that atrophy from her trying to adjust in her sleep to avoid the pain) I e-mail my bosses and the Telecomm lady to let know that the 3rd Blackberry I've had in 2 years, needs to be replaced AGAIN. Thankfully, she's got a sense of humor and knows my pain so she just laughed and said she'd order me a new one.

Thing is, I don't have another phone. Hubby uses my T-Mobile phone and he decided to pick up a gig go play Poker during the day so he's off doing that while daughter and I are at home, achy without a phone. At least, I can e-mail people and post LJ entries like this one.

I swear some days I wonder why I even bother rolling out of bed!

And for those who need to know how to salvage your wet phone, enelya_oronar sent me this DIY link. Which I hope helps. Blackberry's submerged in rice can right now.

	User:	madam_minnie
	Date:	2009-11-04 15:42
	Subject:	A Book is a book is a book
	Security:	Public
	Mood:	cheerful

As many of you know, I've made the leap from print books to eBooks for my reading pleasure ever since I got my iPod Touch. I love reading eBooks and, like many out there, find that I can read them faster in electronic format than I can in print. I don't know why really. It should be the same regardless since it's the same number of words, the format is just different. I, of course, expect to pay a lot less for an eBook than I would pay for a print book and with the number of books I buy per month and the state of our finances right now, eBooks are much more affordable.

Yes, there's the debate over sharing eBooks and DRM and all that crap that, to be honest, annoys me to no end. Everything we do and are able to do with Print books should be made available in eBooks and dammit, if I want to swap books with my girlfriends, I should be able to do so at whim and as many times as I want. 9 times out of 10, my girlfriends go out and buy a book they share with me, so I don't see what the big fuss is. Okay, climbs down from her soapbox on that topic.

Anyway, winnett made a comment (thank you darling for getting my brain going) in an earlier entry of mine about wanting to hold a book in her hands if she's going to pay for it and it got me thinking... so... a poll!

	User:	faynia
	Date:	2009-11-04 11:13
	Subject:	Today's #1 Goal
	Security:	Public

I have a goal today. It is a fantastic goal. So fantastic, I'm using an icon of the Doctor to cement this occasion. That goal is to finish my hd_career_fair fic.

Exciting, isn't it?

Current Word Count: 6,106
Final Word Goal: Just shy of 10,000

The end is coming! I can feel it! It is right there.





When it arrives would anyone be willing to beta read it? *G*

	User:	madam_minnie
	Date:	2009-11-04 10:27
	Subject:	Ravenous Romance and NaNoWriMo
	Security:	Public
	Mood:	busy

I know many of you are participating in NaNoWriMo this month and some of you may even think to submit your work for publishing (yay!) so I thought I'd share this link with you.

As seen on elisa_rolle's journal:

Get your NaNoWriMo work published at Ravenous Romance

Last year more than 100,000 writers participated, and every year one or two of them get published.

We'd like to increase the odds.

Ravenous Romance novels are 50,000 - 60,000 words. We love finding new writers. So, we'd really like you to write a 50,000 word novel for RR.

Although we publish just about every category of erotic romance, our readers are anxious for more M/M/, paranormal and menage. We'd love to see more science fiction erotic romance, or what we cal Futurotica. And, of course, we always love good contemporary and historical novels.

Our guidelines are up on our website: http://www.ravenousromance.com/images/stories/ravenousromancesubmissionguidelines.pdf

So, from Dec. 1 until New Year's Eve, send us your completed NaNoWriMo erotic romance, and if we think you're good enough, you might win a contract, as well as a $200 advance. Your novel will be published in 2010. Should your work be chosen, we'll interview you on the RR blog and the RR Ning, so you can share your story.

Should the submissions merit it, we'll give out first, second and third place awards, but every novel published will get the $200 advance.

We're looking forward to publishing your NaNoWriMo novel!

Send completed novels, with an outline and a author bio, to: submissions@ravenousromancecom."

Ravenous Romance is a publisher of e-books and audiobooks led by three longtime publishing professionals who see digital publishing as the new mass market. They launched www.ravenousromance.com on December 1, 2008 and have published more than 200 novels, anthologies, and short stories since. Ravenous Romance produces and sells the “Escape with Romance Collection” of trade paperback novels exclusively on HSN, and has licensed print rights to many of its other titles to traditional publishing houses.

	User:	faynia
	Date:	2009-11-03 22:10
	Subject:	Numbered Posts Might Be Easier to Title...Just Saying
	Security:	Public

Remember that post I made last night? About getting more sleep? Day 1 = epic failure. /o\ Four hours of sleep to be had last night.

I spent the entire night making note cards for today's Sociology test that I hardly glanced at today. Which isn't to say I didn't look at them at all, I did, only to discover I didn't know half of the 80 terms I needed to know, not to mention the extra concepts on the backside of the study guide. I'm not at all anywhere near as certain about how I did on this test as I have been on others this semester.

Yeah.



Writing Update:
NaNoWriMo = 1728 words
Career Fair Fic = 6052 words
Sir Leon/Arthur Fic = 1831

Words written today = 105

	User:	nicbemused
	Date:	2009-11-03 15:54
	Subject:	On dealing with the educational system
	Security:	Public

Pro tip: Do not come to your parent meeting reeking of weed. No, really, don't.

	User:	madam_minnie
	Date:	2009-11-03 18:36
	Subject:	Yea, though I walk through the valley of instant coffee...
	Security:	Public
	Mood:	giddy
	Music:	Erase - MIKA

Okay, so one of the topics suggested to me was my coffee addiction. Yes, I'm completely, obsessively, unhealthily addicted to coffee.

My name is Minnie and I'm addicted to coffee!

I suppose the trouble started at an early age. When, still in my diapers, I would wander into the kitchen, hold my hands out to my mother and receive a bottle with coffee-flavored, sweet milk. Yes, I could easily blame my mother for starting this path that led to midnight coffee runs to the hospital, where coffee is free in the cafeteria. I'd knock over coffee stands just for a fix. And on those rocky nights, where I'd try to kick the habit cold-turkey, rocking myself in the corner, sweating and panting for a sniff of roasting java beans, I would cry out for help, asking the gods of decaf and caffeine-free drinks to just end my misery. To end my suffering and deliver me from the path of mocha-java unrighteousness. I cried out to the Bustelo gods and prayed... prayed the 23rd Psalm.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of instant coffee and day-old decaf, I shall fear no evil. For my Bustelo is with me. Thy creamer and thy sugar comfort me. Thy preparest a coffee cup before me in the presence of my decaf enemies. Thou annointest my espresso with sugar. My cup runneth over. Surely mocha latte and double-caf espressos shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the House of Bustelo forever. Amen.

	User:	madam_minnie
	Date:	2009-11-02 14:32
	Subject:	What to write, what to write!
	Security:	Public
	Mood:	blank
	Music:	Angel - Jack Johnson

Okay party peoples... I need topics to write about this month and well... I'm drawing a complete blank on what to say. I've been away from real blogging for so long that I've forgotten how to get the bicycle going again. Help?

What would you like me to write about? Remember that these posts are public and well... young eyes, like those of my children could stumble across the posts so they need to be PG-13.

	User:	longbottom_wkly (posted by coffee_n_cocoa)
	Date:	2009-11-02 09:23
	Subject:	Longbottom Weekly: November 2, 2009
	Security:	Public

Fic (201 words or longer)

ohginnyfan wrote Moments. A collection of moments in Neville's life - after Deathly Hallows and forward. (Neville, Neville/Hannah, G)
leela_cat wrote Taking Care of Their Own. Neville's family and friends help him deal with his mother's death. (background Neville/Draco, G)
thanfiction wrote Chosen. The right choice isn’t always the easy one. (Neville, Ginny, PG)

Drabbles (200 words or less)

westernredcedar wrote Tourist Season. (Neville/Charlie, PG)
nbaeker wrote Masquerade. (Neville/Ginny, R)
alisanne wrote Morning Glory. (Neville/Bill, G)

Art

rossellaohara drew Trick or Treat - Neville’s Treat. (Neville/Blaise, G)

Various and Sundry

wizard_love signups have begun and run until November 11. At LJ | At IJ
hp_art_tales has begun taking prompts for Round 1.


Do you have fic or artwork on Livejournal or Insanejournal to share? Comment here for inclusion in the next issue.

	User:	faynia
	Date:	2009-11-02 01:38
	Subject:	When Weekdays Look Better than the Weekend...
	Security:	Public
	Music:	Pomplamoose Covers Edith Piaf - La Vie En Rose | Powered by Last.fm

You know something is wrong. Am I right?

I'm so physically drained and sore right now. The worst part is I'm not ill, only tired and burned out.

I spent Thursday night into Friday stressing about the PowerPoint presentation I had to cobble together for formal acceptance into the education program and the rest of the weekend just fell in line with that.

Friday:
&hearts turned in Powerpoint and all documents involved there.
&hearts forgot I had offered to sub a shift at the Blue Bean, wound up 30 mins late for a three hour shift. Discovered the dishwasher was busted.
&hearts had to individually hand wash everything, without gloves, missed dinner
&hearts still had to go in for night shift, dishwasher still busted, there a half-hour longer than normal

Saturday:
&hearts spent too many hours night before on phone with boy
&hearts woke up around 11, didn't eat breakfast before meeting carpool at 2 to go to Camp Curtin
&hearts six hours spent volunteering at Camp Curtin Light's on fair without any food! \o/
&hearts the school bought us Wendy's. I &hearts my school.
&hearts stayed up too late again texting boy, started NaNo novel, watched Merlin, started Sir Leon/Arthur fic (total word count between NaNo and Leon/Arthur fic? 3000)

Sunday:
&hearts woke up in pain, muscles sore on both sides of my bum, stretched too much trying to collect pennies from the penny toss day before
&hearts arrived 5 mins too late at meeting point to go to the PSEA fall conference, ride had already left. WTFEVER.
&hearts took a nap A+
&hearts procrastinated by listening to a lecture on procrastination
&hearts worked again at Blue Bean. Dishwasher? Still broken.

In conclusion?

faynia needs to practice better bedtime skills or she will get ill.

To-do:
1. Reach 3340 words in NaNo
2. Finish hd_career_fair fic. Yeah, you read that right.
3. Finish Sir Leon/Arthur fic
4. Study for Sociology Exam on Tuesday
5. SLEEP??!??!

	User:	weasley_loving (posted by lee_west)
	Date:	2009-11-01 20:59
	Subject:	The Mrs Weasleys' Great Meat Pie Contest
	Security:	Public

Title: The Mrs Weasleys' Great Meat Pie Contest
Author: Lee West
Characters/Pairings: Arthur/Molly, Bill/Fleur, Charlie/Viktor, Percy/Audrey, George/Angelina, Ron/Hermione, Harry/Ginny and Teddy/Victoire
Rating: R
Kinks/Themes Chosen: Edible Aphrodisiacs at daily_deviant, here
Other Warnings: Use and abuse of pie.
Word Count: 2,634
Summary/Descriptions: Which of the Mrs Weasleys makes the best meat pie?
Author's Notes: For everyone whose pies are not "as good as my mother's."

Thank you muchly to Sab and Minnow for betaing.

The Mrs Weasleys' Great Meat Pie Contest

	User:	coffee_n_cocoa
	Date:	2009-11-01 16:30
	Subject:	Drabble: Proper Motivation (Harry/Ron/Hermione, NC-17)
	Security:	Public

Title: Proper Motivation
Author: coffee_n_cocoa
Pairing(s): Harry/Ron/Hermione
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: This is a work of fanfiction set in the Harry Potter universe – all recognisable characters and settings are the property of J. K. Rowling and her associates. No copyright infringement is intended. No profit is made from this work. Please observe your local laws with regards to the age-limit and content of this work.
Warning(s): D/s, spanking, threesome
Word Count: 200
Summary: Ron gives Harry what he needs to finish his appointed task.
Author's Notes: Written for deathjunke for hp_halloween 2009.


Proper Motivation

	User:	twilightsorcery
	Date:	2009-11-01 17:27
	Subject:	Wizard Love!
	Security:	Public
	Mood:	cheerful

It's that time again, het fans!

wizard_love is one of my favorite fests: I sign up every year, and I always have a great time. This time around, r_grayjoy (who did a fantastic job with hp_wankfest) is co-modding with ragdoll for Double Mod Awesome.

SIGNUPS NOW OPEN! Come play with us. :)

	User:	madam_minnie
	Date:	2009-11-01 11:11
	Subject:	One more day
	Security:	Public
	Mood:	cheerful
	Music:	Kids playing Halo 3

Tomorrow is the last day of classes. No more staying up till 2 AM finishing a paper. No more telling people that I can't get together with them because I have to post to my classroom by certain time. No more lugging my laptop to family functions to get my homework done while the kids play in a pool. No more hiding behind my schoolwork to have a life again.

That's going to be scary.

For the last year, I've had a reason to be a hermit and I quite enjoyed it, to be honest. Don't get me wrong, I'm looking forward to being active in fandom again, to write again (OMG I THINK MY MUSE JUST ORGASMED AT THAT THOUGHT) and spend time with friends and family. I'm just scared that I won't have anything to say. That I'll be uninteresting now that my brain's full of idiotic facts and research material no one is interested in.

Oh well, I'll figure it out, right? I'm just glad to finally be able to say, I'm a college graduate. In about six weeks, I'll have my degree in my hand and hopefully, a graduation to attend. Yeah baybee!

	User:	coffee_n_cocoa
	Date:	2009-11-01 09:40
	Subject:	The Annual Halloween roundup!
	Security:	Public
	Mood:	awake (barely)

Sadly, this is the last time I get to use my Halloween!Trevor icon before I put him away for another year.

We had 48 trick-or-treaters last night, which was down from our average of about 55. We still have loads of candy left, although Dad G has already made inroads into the Nestle Crunch bars, and the bag of Reese's Pumpkins is nearly untouched....mwahahahaha!!!

( Witches and ghosties and goblins, oh my! )

Afterward I took Bean to see hubby at his job, which made both of them happy. She ran around on a sugar high, calmed down a bit to watch "Sword in the Stone", cried and wept tears of doom when I made her go to bed...and she was out inside of ten minutes. So yeah, she was a tired Bean, protests to the contrary aside.

She made a cute fairy, though!

( Fairy!Bean! )