There's a Dead Like Me movie and I didn't know about it?

How could this happen? I've been waiting years for DLM to reappear.


Excuse me a second while I hyperventilate.

I'll admit that I've let this journal idle for a little while but there was good reason largely based on the fact that I didn't wish to fill it with long rambly emo posts.

While matters are from sorted out I'm going back as I'm sure the desire to whine endlessly on has passed.

However, things are going to change with this joural. From now on this is going to be the home of all my fandom-related posts from fanfic to fanvids to long-winded ramblings and my new DreamWidth journal will be the home of the real-life stuff.

Barring any cross-posting I'll stick to this as best I can and, frankly, it shouldn't affect any of you as I dare say the majority of people following this journal do so for the fandom content rather than anything else.

By all means feel free to follow the real life ramblings on the DreamWidth journal but I feel better being able to seperate the two.

I just thought it was best to explain what was going to happen and, while I know this is already breaking the new ROL rules you can follow me on Twitter @NickQuayle in the meantime.

Anyway, normal service (or at least what will now pass for normal service) will now resume. So..erm..carry on.

Finally finished this, given that the Andromeda fandom seems to be gradually coming back to life. It's been sitting on my hard drive for almost two years so it's about time.

Name: You Know My Name
Song: You Know My Name - Chris Cornell
Fandom: Andromeda
Spoilers: 1x22 "It's Hour Come Round At Last" and 2x01 "The Widening Gyre"
Notes: YouTube seems to have ruined the quality of this video but I am assured that it will clear up when they've finished 'processing' it, whatever that means.

This makes me happier than you could ever possibly imagine.

Well, today has mostly been spent on bug fixes, having resumed my position as staff on bDv (or ST:F as it's called now) I've spent the last few days doing little else save fixing bugs that have apparently been there since I took my year long hiatus.

I've also taken a position on DW as of about 4 hours ago so that's going to mean many, many more hours of coding and bug fixes - so it's a bloody good job I enjoy it isn't it?

I'll confess that the rewrites aren't going so well - in fact I haven't so much as looked at them today which is worrying given that time is rapidly running out and even more worrying since I've decided that I want to enter ScriptFrenzy this year after years of putting it off which leaves with me little over a week to pull together some sort of coherent script idea ready to start writing on April 1st (which is also the date when two of the rewrites have to be in so hopefully there at least won't be any overlap in writing even if I do have to fit in some planning time in and around wrapping up those two) which ought to prove...interest.


Hmm, I think this could actually be a bigger week than I imagined.

Right, I'd best get on with the ironing so I've got something to wear tomorrow and then onwards to the first rewrite.

Well, I thought that it was high time I stuck my head above the parapet and showed my face around these parts.

I'd like to say that I've done something over the last week but I haven't; between a full-time job and four writing deadlines I haven't had the time to do much of anything and any spare time I get usually ends up with me doing the housework because by then I've usually left it a few days and a new form of plague breeding in my kitchen sink has become a very real possibility.

Apologies that I've been not been active but it's going to be at least another week before I have the spare time I need to catch up on everybody's LJs.

I'll give further details on the writing deadlines, assuming anybody is interested, as and when I'm told I can.

Until then, be good :D

ETA: Erm..I've just noticed the 'Adult Concept' option on this post which is a new addition in my abcense. Does this mean I'm going to have to go back through and edit all the entries?

Have watched the Watchmen and criticisms and min-rant will be forthcoming sometime tomorrow morning.

For now, I need to get on with some work because the gas-man is coming tomorrow (terribly exciting I know) so I'm not going to be able to get any done in the morning.

Until then,

x

Well, I guess it's high time I posted an explanation of just whereabouts I've been.

In fact I have been no more than around 400 feet from where I am now, living in the flat that time (and apparently daylight) forgot though a flat which was obviously listed in the Spider's Guide To The Galaxy as the perfect place to take up home.

The background is that basically I left my job at the Halifax and was unemployed from Febuary 1st 2008 until December 17th when I started work for the Department of Work & Pensions and consequently had no money in the meantime.

Having left said flat with a hefty overdraft and a promise to the spiders that I wouldn't come back I moved to the 11th floor of the block across the road which, well as being above the ground has an extra bedroom and is the three times the size. Result!

That's it, I didn't promise it was going to be interesting and really there is nothing more to report. I will be back in fandom though it could be several weeks before I summon the courage to go near my friends page and try and catch up.

Cheers.

Am back from the wilderness after 48 weeks.

Update soon.

That is all.

Wow, I am totally spamming you guys today.

Anyway, here is a list for simplicity's sake:

1) RTD & Chris Chibnall will die a horrible, horrible death. We're talking sharp stabby things heading places they shouldn't. Slowly. Stupid Torchwood made me cry :(
Full reaction post later.

2) I have received a lovely cheque with some money in it from the Halifax (the remnants of my pension scheme payments whih they have deducted a hefty amount from and seen fit to give back to me), enough to either bring one account back into the black and pay off the phone bill or pay the deposit on a new house. I'll be paying the deposit. Just have to wait 12 days for it to clear :-P

3) I have a new flat! At least in theory anyway. The problem with it is that it is in Mixenden (which is akin to a more violent Chatsworth estate from 'Shameless') and I have no money. Also, somebody else is competing against me for it. I shall not stand for this. Oh no. That flat will be mine!

4) I have chased up the job seeker people until my ears were sore from mobile phone radiation (thank the lord for free minutes) and have an appointment with them on Monday, this is an improvement as the 3, THREE!, applications I made for benefits previously have miraculously reappeared despite their denying for the last two months that they ever existed.

This was all helpfully told to me by a woman I was chasing up as she didn't phone me back when she promised only for her to turn around and tell me I needed to speak to another department who closed at 4pm (this was about two minutes to). When queried why she had hadn't called me earlier so I could actually have time to speak to them given that she knew my situation the phone mysteriously cut off.

Strange, that.



Erm...I think that's it.

I shall celebrate the above by drinking coffee, feeding my nicotine withdrawal with biscuits and coveting my housemate's wine.

Bugger, it's 6am and I haven't been to bed yet :-P

Oops.

I'd best put the kettle on then, this is going to be a long day.

Imagine my surprise when I went to the Friends Manager to remove someone (I'm bitchy like that, go friends-only on me and I -will- remove you, especially as you've apparently done it to stop people reading your whiny emo posts. I've got news for you, I've been subjected to them for the last two years :-P Yes, I'm talking to you th_esaurus.) and I find several people I didn't even know had friended me.

So, erm...hi. Apologies for the ream of stupid house and job related posts lately, they will cease soon. I'm not normally this boring (I lie, I am).

In other news, I sobbed for a good hour at Torchwood (damn you RTD). I'll post a reaction post later - I want to rewatch it first.

Oh no.

The bank statement just arrived, I am a grand total of £527.00 overdrawn on accounts that don't even have authorized overdrafts, and let's not get started on the one that does.

This could be a problem...


I'm going to have to throw some sort of charity event aren't I, like Live 8 but with Drag Queens or something.

Well, I've had a reasonably constructive day - in that I've finished 4 out of the 20+ the jobs I was supposed to have done. This is mostly an improvement on my part.

Still no house, still no fll time job and still no Government giving me money to eat - need to phone them tomorrow. If they have lost my application for the third time I will be pulling eyes out. Theirs.

On a different note, this season of House is epically stupid. I can't even begin to explain it. Also, I now hate Wilson.
 

Well, I am having rather a lovely evening.

I've been offered two jobs interviews today which can only be a good thing, and am waiting for my start date for my new life as a phone actress. Hopefully money trouble should soon be sorted, this of course leaves finding a new house but that worry can wait until the morning.

In the meantime I'm having a very interesting and erudite conversation with a friend over messenger. He's rather charming and one of those people who I've only met once but who I have conversations with which are few and far between but are wonderfully insightful. Rather like a West Yorkshire-based Stephen Fry.

I'm horribly behind with my other commitments, I owe three articles (and rather stupidly have spent much of my day which wasn't filling in applications pawning my services,  offering them to newspapers and the like in the hope I might get some payment for my writing rather than just internet applause), I'm in the middle of 2 logs (think collaborative writing) and another is on the way for me to add to and I owe a standalone log too. Also, I sort of promised someone some Mickey/Jake/Jack AU fiction.

Also, I haven't written anything for Script Frenzy today and two spec scripts are staring at me mournfully in their half finished state from my desktop and I'm surrounded (literally surrounded, if any of these piles topple over I will be buried alive) by notes and 'project bibles' for all of the above.

Hmm...I think a jug of coffee and a spell in front of a word processor may be in order. Perhaps some scaffolding to hold up this paperwork might help too.

Do you know what, it's nice to be busy again :)

Guess who just became a phone actor actress?



Dont look at me like that, I have bills to pay.

So it begins...

Bring on ScriptFrenzy!

Basically, the plan is to turn my original NaNo novel (now  finished I might add) into a script.

That and finish the tv episode I've been writing for the past few days....


Oh, plus find a job and a house. Priorities eh?

Posted to tw_wotd_fic

Title: Excrescence
Author: truebq  
Chracters: Owen Harper, Myfanwy
Rating: G
Spoilers: Reset.
Summary: Owen Harper considers his situation and his new circumstances and finds comfort from an unlikely source.
Disclaimer: I own nothing, honest.
Author’s Notes: I just churned this out now because...wow, I couldn't pass up "excrescence" as a word prompt. This is not Owen/Myfanwy I promise.

I don't know why it keeps making everything italic, it refuses to do anything else. Sorry.

I'm feel so very very rough this morning....substances were involved, that's all I'm saying.

Bleh.


Saw Torchwood yesterday - on the whole I liked. Not too keen on their portrayal of UNIT which seems to fly in the face of Old Who but in order to prevent me running off and disemboweling RTD I'm going to pretend they're different thanks to Saxon who also gave them the "Valiant" Captain Scarlet-style airbase just before the Year of Retcon.

Of course, Ianto's arrival flys in the face of the great unfinished Torchwood series residing on my laptop which was started with "Introductions" over a year ago and has languished ever since.

Still, I get to write by candlelight due to rubbish electric which makes me feel all olden days so it may well be finished soon. Bring on the corsets and candelabras.

Have just finished moving loads of stuff out of my house ready for the big move in three weeks. Although, at the moment I am still without gainful employment (though I currently stand at 50+ job applications) so I may well be homeless shortly. I shall have to turn tricks :(.

Right, I'm off to put a jumper on - this house was cold enough before I packed all my stuff up and thereby removed the insulation.

Ha!

I'm now applying for jobs in candlelight to try and preserve what's left of the emergency credit on the meter.

It's looking a little Day After Tomorrow around here...


I have some entries to backdate, I will do it later.