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Some of you may remember that around this time last year (and the year before that) I took it into my head to declare a randomly chosen seven-day span of time to be Mpreg Week. Perhaps you'd forgotten. Perhaps you'd hoped I'd forgotten! Au contraire, my dears; I have not forgotten! And since I love mpreg, and others have been kind enough to indulge me in the past, I am now declaring it to be The Third Annual Mpreg Week! You know what that means! Mpreg, from today until next Sunday! Read it, write it, draw it, rec it, talk about it, whatever tickles your fancy. For my part, I shall work on finishing the long-awaited sequel to Embarazado, and perhaps a few other little drabbles and ficlets if I can manage it.

Now, go forth and mpreg!

Just a short note to let one and all know that I am, in fact, still alive. Good lord, I don't think I've gone this long without posting in the entire time I've had this journal. Unfortunately, life has had me in a strangehold for the last several months and doesn't seem to be willing to let up anytime soon. Nothing bad is happening, I'm just insanely busy and will probably be so until the end of the semester. Sigh. In the mean time, I'm hanging in there, and struggling to cope with the fact that I just don't have as much leisure time as I used to.

I haven't been doing much (or sometimes any) writing in the last few months either, but I'm trying to change that. I just wrote something for the saiyuki_time comm, A Small Crime. I'm going to try and keep with with doing a ficlet for each prompt, since it seems to be a good way to stay semi-regular with writing as posting fic. Meanwhile, the battle against my many other WIP rages on, though lately I seem to have decided that discretion is the better part of valor. (In other words, I've been hiding under the covers and not writing at all.) But as spring...er, springs I shall bravely soldier on in my attempts to compose something that I am not totally embarrassed of. We will see how that goes.

In other news, I have been doing a lot of sleeping, a moderate amount of reading, and a (very) little exercising. Beyond that, there is little to report. My life has become exceedingly dull.

Further updates as events warrant! (In other words, it may be a while.) Carry on, folks!

I have come to the sad conclusion that I am a bibliophile of the highest order. Recently, somebody asked me what I would buy if I had 10,000 dollars to spend as I wished. My immediate answer was, "Books." Inevitably, they asked, "Well, what else?" To which I responded, "...More...books?" I think they thought that nobody could possibly need or want ten thousand dollar's worth of books, but oh how wrong they are. I could buy dozens in one go, easily. I went to Barnes and Noble today, with the intention of celebrating a sucessful first week of classes buy buying myself books, and wanted nearly everything I saw. It was hard to restrain myself from spending too much. Woes. I think I need some kind of book-addict rehab, but I like book-buying too much to repent my ways.

I did buy four books though, and am very excited about them. I got Sex with Kings, which I decided I had to have after I read Sex with the Queen a few months ago and loved it. I'm a history geek with a passion for reading about royalty, so this was a must-have for me. Also, the sexcapades of the royals of yore are very amusing to read.

I also got The Persian Boy, after hearing various people on my friendslist chattering about Mary Renault. Also, I bought Peony in Love, because I loved Lisa See's other stuff so much. Finally, I bought Princess Academy, which I'd already read via the local library. I like Shannon Hale a lot. Her stories are really sweet and well done, and they have a lot of life in them. I wanted to get one of her books I hadn't read yet, but they only had this one and another that I already owned. Boo. Will have to order them online.

As far as school goes, I had a very easy re-entry and like all of my classes very much, which is excellent. I'm taking the Creative Writing workshop again, and I'm really thrilled about that. I absolutely adored it last semester, but was afraid I wouldn't be able to take it again this semester because of scheduling conflicts. Happily, I can! It's funny, but I've noticed I actually write more during the school year than I do during the summer and holidays. I always mean to take advantage of the free time to write, but somehow end up getting bored or lazy and not following through. I seem to have better discipline during the semester. My Creative Writing class has inspired me to dust off the novel I did for NaNoWriMo '05 and see about continuing it. I haven't touched it since that November, and I don't know why, since I really do like the story. I think I might do a sequel to it for this year's NaNoWriMo, for which I'm already excited and have been thinking about for months. :D I've already warned my professor that I'm going to try and draft some of the people from our Creative Writing class into doing it too. She supports me wholeheartedly, so now I must think of ways to trick my classmates into agreeing. Hm.

I'm feeling very cheery lately, and I hope all of you out there are feeling the same!

There are so many movies out right now that I want to see. This is a new and different experience for me, since I usually go to the theater about twice a year and am always hopelessly out-of-date when it comes to pop-culture stuff. But! Movies! I went with my mother to see Stardust last week and loved it, much to my surprise. She really wanted to see it, but I was hesitant since I usually don't much care for movie adaptations of books. Plus, I loved the novel so much that I was afraid that if the movie didn't live up to my expectations I would end up hurling popcorn at the screen and making a scene right in the middle of the theater. It was a really sweet and charming movie though, and I enjoyed it a lot. I'd certainly recommend it. There were a bunch of really spiffy-looking coming attractions before the movie that made me jones for another night at the theater, soon. Next I want to see Invasion, because it looks cool and suitably creepy. Also, my dad and I used to watch the 1956 Invasion of the Bodysnatchers together and mock it the whole way through, so I've got to see this version for nostalgic purposes. Sadly, I'm gonna have to go by myself, since nobody I know wants to see the movie. Oh well.

It's getting to be back-to-school time, so good luck to those of you who are heading back into the trenches as students or teachers. Go, fight, win! I'm beginning to get a little excited about my own classes starting next week since I really like my schedule. Also, I'm taking the same Creative Writing workshop that I took last semester, so I'm guaranteed at least one class I'll love. I have to take a math class this semester though, boo. Like most writers and English language inclined folks I know, I'm really not much of a math person. Hopefully this time I'll at least...uh. Not fail the class? That would be good.

On another topic entirely, skimming through my journal entries to tag and organize things for my backup journals has been interesting, simply because it's given me a chance to see what I talk about and how often I post about certain things. The patterns that emerge from taking a close look at my entries are really interesting. I'm a statistics geek, though, so I'm always fascinated by those journaling programs that tell you stuff like what percentage of your posts fall on a certain day or at a certain time, or things like that. It has made me curious, though, about what the people who read my journal pay attention to. Obviously, just because I post about something doesn't mean anyone actually reads it. So on that note, and because it's been a while since I've done a gratuitous self-involved poll, have some ticky boxes! Tell me which type of entries you pay attention to/find interesting versus the ones you just skim past.

[Poll #1042511]


Speaking of fic, I can has some porn! It's almost done, and providing the characters cooperate with me, I'll hopefully get it up in the next couple days. It feels like it's been a while since I've written a sex scene. This is clearly unacceptable and must be remedied. Yay, porn!

Nicked from daegaer and trensaddiction: When you see this, post a little weensy excerpt from as many random works-in-progress as you can find lying around. Who knows? Maybe inspiration will burst forth and do something, um, inspiration-y.

( The one with Tachibana and Ono )

( The one with Sanzo and Gojyo )

( The one with baby!Gojyo )

( The one with amnesiac!youkai!Hakkai )

( The one where Sanzo remembers his childhood )

( The one where Hakkai is jealous )

( The really long casino AU )

( The genderfuck mpreg which will never ever be finished )


Guess who really need to get off her lazy butt and finish some of these? Yeah, that would be me. Eep. *shuffles off to open MS Word*

Recently, emungere has written some lovely Saiyuki fics examining what might have happened if things had gone a little differently for our favorite Ikkou when they were small. It got me to thinking about a particular incident, and this is what tumbled out.

( Sheng hurried after Master Koumyou’s retreating back, trying not to snag his robes on the bramble. )

Summary: When Goku wants to know the facts of life, who's more suited to educate him that Gojyo? Well, probably a lot of people. Unfortunately, Gojyo's the only one around.

Hints of 58 and 39. This could probably use a little more polish, and possible a beta, but my writing has been giving me fits lately and I’ve been constantly rewriting and scraping stuff. So I’m pretty much just sick of looking at this as desperate to get something off the to-do pile. I apologize for any roughness or misspellings. Bear with me as I try to get back into the writing groove!


( Deep in his third beer, Gojyo didn’t notice when Goku slunk into the seat across from him. )

Nicked from springgreen, a more in-depth look at what I wrote this year (er, wait, last year)!

( Year in review meme )

Someone gave me a prompt for youkai!Hakkai/Gojyo sex...a few months ago. In the hubbub of NaNoWriMo and the holidays, I quite forgot about it and only now remembered to finish it up. Embarrassingly, I don't even remember who it was, but. Well. Your fic's done, whoever-you-are!

( Stretching his legs out in front of him, Gojyo sat on the front porch and watched, transfixed. )

I wrote about half of this months ago and then, as I often do with my half-finished ficlets, forgot all about it. I rescued it from the depths of my harddrive a couple weeks ago and finished it. I don't even remember where the idea for this came from. I guess I've just always been fascinated by the unusual 'meet cute' Hakkai and Gojyo had and wondered what it would have been like if it had gone another way.

( Five Ways Hakkai and Gojyo Never Met )