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[kleenexwoman]

I'm at my mom's house, hanging out with the dog and the contractor, snacking on pistachios and wearing someone else's robe. It's nice. Quiet. Mom has cable and interesting things in the fridge and the dog is really sweet. It's like a vacation. I'm doing my homework (research on the writer of "American Beauty") and watching "Real Housewives of New York" as research for my Yuletide project. I seem to have lost my Down the Chimney challenge in the shuffle of my inbox, but I do vaguely remember what it's about, so I'm looking up obscure jazz songs and stuff on aquatic apes for that.

What are you guys up to? Working on anything you need to do research for? Learned anything cool?

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[epicycles.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a nice day!

I'm working on the Down the Chimney affair, by which I mean I'm procrastinating, except I just realized I should be writing it, like, NOW. Also have a million other challenge fics to do. Egads.

Today I learned about the dispersion behavior of a partially-filled parallel plate waveguide! Aren't you excited.

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

I've been nursing this one concept for the DtC that happened in a dream, but I'm not sure if I want to do that, because it's weird, but the only other idea I have isn't very good. If you were a person who was getting a fic that was a present, would you want to read what's basically someone else's bizarr-o dream? :D?

Partially-filled parallel plate waveguide sounds kind of...dirty?

[epicycles.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't mind getting dreamfic, but that's because (a) I'm weird and (b) I have insane epic plot-filled dreams that would make excellent stories. Seriously in school we had a "write down your dream" assignment, and all of them were two lines except mine was four pages. Either way, crazy dream!fic > not as good not!dream!fic.

Filled waveguides also come with dirty hand gestures made my professors who have no idea how dirty they look. Or by young professors who do know and think it's funny.

(Should I feel bad that I did like two seconds of googling for my dtc fic? Seems like other people are putting in lots of research-y effort while I'm kind of writing my usual rambling nonsense.)

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

yay :D My dreams always seem more satisfying than the stories I make up when I'm conscious--I think my subconscious has a better grasp of narrative than I do.

(Don't feel bad. A couple of years ago, the only research I did for my DTC fic was dropping some acid. Ha, that was a great night.)

[epicycles.livejournal.com]

LOL well that solves the mystery of how you wrote that fic so authentically. :D