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Aaand back to Russian.

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Oogh. Short bit of Russian today to finish off that grammar point and take it a little easier. On the plus side, I got all my exercises in this morning and managed to make myself drink the protein powder in milk drink, so we'll see how that goes. If it does make me dizzy and sweaty, it's a light day today what with the whole no mail no UPS thing going on.

And hopefully I'll be able to get a bunch of writing done. We're going to be down two people with Flutter taking the day off (which is kind of fair, I got the last mail/ups holiday off) and the person who normally works out front Mondays and Tuesdays being out on some family thing, I think a wedding and seeing some relatives. So there's that, but on the other hand with not much happening in the back, we'll see how much work I actually have to do. Blargh.

Did end up going to the shindig on Friday but not the one yesterday. Friday night was pretty good! I met a couple new people, some of whom hopefully we'll end up going to the TSO Christmas Concert with. There was good food, there was a burd (long story on TV tropes), a couple dogs, burgers, and there was good music and good conversation. And a guy who did some fire dancing with poi and did I mention the fire? People lit off firecrackers, I got to know a couple girls (one of whom is now not!Ty from Clueless and the other of whom is not!Bowler, because that's who they remind me of) and they were pretty cool! And now I'm all "wow. I have girlfriends." Sort of, at least. I think that, barring that work doesn't drain me again, I will actually consent to go to the next girl's night out. It ought to be fun.

Should poke at the writing schedule at some point and adjust it for not really getting much done this weekend. Blargh. I guess I'll do that now, and then get ready and head out.

[Fic] Long-Distance Calling Plan

Title: Long-Distance Calling Plan
Fandom: The Losers (film)
Characters: Clay/Aisha
Word Count: 1,300
Rating: R
Summary: Clay and Aisha are insatiable, even when they're an ocean apart.
A/N: Written for kink_bingo "Phonesex"

It was the first assignment they'd had working for this particular client. Private security, it turned out, was even more boring than the waiting periods between missions and attacks.

"Convoy, you're five by, ready when you are."

It didn't help that they were waiting on possibly the most irresponsible, feckless reprobate ever to head a multi-billion dollar company. Genius engineer he might be, but if he didn't start pulling his shit together Aisha was going to deck him one, incredibly useful weapons or no incredibly useful weapons.

Aisha leaned back, flipped the radio's microphone off, and called Clay to check in.

"Hey, babe."

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Oogh tired. Didn't get quite as much done as I meant to, but did get a fair bit done at least. And I remembered to do my German! Not so much with the Japanese, but it was a weird, off-routine day. Tomorrow there will be Japanese. Tomorrow, hopefully, the workload was somewhat lessened by the boxing up of most things today. Except for the part where I do have to go to the post office and send stuff to Canada. Ah well. Maybe it'll be nice when I have to walk.

Went to a wine tasting after work at this pretty damn swank used bookstore and champagne bar that had all kinds of books, couches and tables and little alcoves and things, and had some friendly wacky conversation about various and sundry topics. That bookstore was awesome. It needs to be the site of a Nano Write In or something at some point. Definitely there needs to be more hanging out there and reading, maybe if the boy has a game at Blitzkrieg or something. It's just that cool. Plus, couches. Plus wine, although wine really does go straight to my head and I don't even like most wines. But still! It appeals to my inner child who wants to grow up and be a snobby intellectual. Oh wait...

Oogh. Sleepy ish, though. And trying to jam in writing now 3 Big Bangs into the next month. Ish. Maybe not really, but also, just. Getting everything drafted is going to be a pain in the arse. ... Or maybe not entirely, kind of like doing Nano three times over in one month... forget I said anything. And the next time, if I sign up for more than two Big Bangs at once, shoot me? At least I didn't do my usual stupid thing and sign up for two topics/fandoms at once. And at least two of these are original things that will end up with potential cover art, and, yeah. Especially if I can actually bash Martine into some kind of shape. Either I'm getting better or my standards are getting lower, but I'm liking more and more of what I write right off the bat. Maybe it's just that I'm getting more accurate on the first try. Still. That's why we have rewriting.