Sigh

[hobgoblinn]

So, if I ever reach the other side of menopause, will the monthly mood swings taper off at all? Just wondering. I don't think I've actually even got to this side, proper, but having something to hope for would be nice.

Just a very tense couple of days, and some errors at work, some of which are properly my fault, many more of which aren't, and a QC manager who is grasping so hard at trying to keep his job by actually overdoing it for the new overlords (which would beat the previous not doing anything at all, if I weren't the target of choice) and who thinks his job involves creating mountains of reports blaming people for things that go wrong. People who have never been trained on most of these things and who have no procedure for catching them if they had been. People who were already on tight timing thanks to getting incomplete and wrong information when they first asked for it, and got said information far too late in the game as it was.

So, is there any cheer to be had? Let's see. I do feel good that I completed my next chapter of "In Loco" before Monday's deadline, even if I can't post it until it's been beta'ed and rewritten at least. And that I have a groovy box for snarkysneak finally in my car with her address (though I haven't got to the mailing part just yet. Still. Box. In car. That's huge.) And I have been having great fun judging my categories of tnl_awards. I've read most of the fics in my assigned categories, but there were a few I hadn't and-- wow. When all is over I'll have to rec some here.

But for the most part, a meh and stressful day by turns, and I am Sure my trying a doppio con panna this morning in no way contributed to my hair trigger temper/giggles/twitchiness. At All.

Comments

[hobgoblinn.livejournal.com]

Well, there are sequels that eventually get them together, though it still stays well within the bounds of decorum on the page (you know they are intimate, but explicit stuff is kept private.) It gives the story verisimilitude, but yeah, after being conditioned to see more in fanfic I sometimes wish she would give us a little more.

All my Buffy stuff is on fanfic.net now; I'll have to dig up some links for you, not to my stuff, but to some really good writing by folks on my friends list. liz_marcs and antennapedia were the folks who welcomed me out to LJ and fanfic when I finally got up the courage, and I admire both of them more than I can say. Even if I'm no longer reading as actively in that fandom anymore, I learned a lot from them both, and still do just from their journal entries.

[juno-magic.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know those sequels. And I was even more disappointed in them.

See, for me it has nothing to do with being conditioned by fanfic or desiring the titillation of explicit scenes, but what I regard as capturing "life".

I am alwas disappointed by books and stories in which the characters never sneeze, never eat, never use the toilet ... and in which I'm supposed to believe that there is an essential intimate relationship going that is never shown "on page".

In Laurie King's novels it's still okay, because she is writing "in style" - old-fashioned, Victorian.

But there are quite a number of modern fantasy (or other novels) that still expect readers to believe in those oh so hawt relationships and all you ever see is a chaste kiss.

I wish authors had more courage about including facts of life in their stories. From diarrheas to orgasms.