stunt_muppet

Went to the Health Center; turns out I do, actually, have a sinus infection, and have had one for the past three weeks. It's good to know I've actually got a thing that I can take medications for and not just The Head Cold That Wouldn't Die. Unfortunately, getting those medications means trudging out to CVS in the cold and the rain and the grossness. I might be terrifically lazy and actually take Dr. N up on his offer of fetching my prescription for me.

So hopefully I'll be feeling up to going to class tomorrow, though I don't know how that'll go if I stay up too late tonight, but I am almost finished with my late film blog, dammit, and I'm not going to bed until it's done. I was supposed to write 700-800 words on Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris, which I'd have a much easier time doing if I actually understood it. It's hard arguing how a certain cinematic technique reinforces the themes and climax of the film when you're not sure what either are. I think I finally settled on something but frankly I have so much other crap due soon that I just want to finish this and move on. I do hate this time of year. Five or six long-term projects come due in the space of a few weeks and I can never get anything done when I'm supposed to. And then, inevitably, I get sick and work even less.

*whines* *complains*

A rather gratifying point: J and I, on our way up to the computer lab, were complaining about Transformers 2, as M hadn't seen it and, at dinner, enquired if it was really that bad (it is). We tend to get on a roll when we rant about Transformers 2, so we were still talking about it once we got back to the dorm to do some work. We also complained a bit about our workloads, and J suggested that we could write a paper on all the ways TF2 fails hard.

At this point, the guy riding in the elevator with us, who neither of us knew, nodded and chimed in that he could certainly write that paper. I do love uncovering fellow geeks. :)

I did have a point to this post and it is this: On the off-chance that I manage to emerge from the Pile O'Schoolwork long enough to finish the second and third chapters of Made Up Your Mind, do you think it'd be kosher to post Chapter 2 to best_enemies ? I'm wary of doing so because, while it does have Doctor/Master content, it also has Doctor/Jo content, and is in fact a second chapter to, well, a rather straightforward Doctor/Jo fic. It's just that Chapter 2 is Something Completely Different. Oh, and as a bonus, Chapter 3 has no Doctor/Master content either, and switches focuses to the Brigadier and Liz and possibly Benton and Yates as well. Well, okay, it might have a bit of Doctor/Master content, but not very much.

I already hesitate to post fic on best_enemies anyway, because some stupefyingly brilliant authors post there and I just don't measure up, so it's kind of like the kid pinning her crayon scribbles up next to the oil portraits and the experimental film-and-wall-collage installations, but I figure I should at some point so I'm not such a bad slasher and a bad D/M fan.

This is, of course, assuming I get anything written at all aside from scraping together my dw_femslash and Yuletide fic. Obligatory "why do I keep signing up for shit" whining goes here.

And, because having a sinus infection makes me write disjointed and strange entries, I must finish on a non-sequiter: fresh-baked, piping-hot chocolate-ship cookies might just be the best thing in the whole world.