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Still aten't dead. Though so much for a post every morning. We got most of the crap moved from the apartment to the house last week and over the weekend, excepting only the mattress and a couple of blankets, our computer desks, our computers, and the cat things. And, you know, odds and ends like plastic plates left over from a party a bajillion years ago, my knitting that I'm currently working on, a book I was reading, the boy's book he was reading. Things like that. Does that mean that, with no distractions, I'm actually getting some things done?

Well, since I still have the internet at the apartment, no, no it does not.

I have Yuletide to finish (it's actually almost done! I've just been incredibly slow lately and moving) and that's about it as far as my fiction writing obligations go till January, which means I get to splash around in the Talia Wayne AU pool. As for nonfiction, i.e. the blog, well, I have two essays to write there, which will probably mean one essay and one multi-part essay since the second one is xenobiology on Grimm. And there's a lot of xenoforms to analyze.

We've also started watching pilots to see what we want to do with Murderboarding while both Grimm and Haven are off air, and all I can say is either my standards for TV have gotten ridiculously high or TV has started sucking a lot more lately. I watched Terra Nova and apart from the shitty pacing, the lackluster acting, the clunky dialogue, the recycled sets, the awkward CGI, and the insufficient world-building, it wasn't bad! So, yes, I hated it. I watched Touch and the acting and sets weren't so bad there (although there were a couple yes-this-is-a-set moments, ugh), the pacing was decent and the dialogue wasn't bad except for a few egregiously cliche lines. But the storyline and overall plot was so, so heavy-handed and the treatment of non-neurotypical people was so freaking messianic it was like being back in the eighties again. Anyone remember The Boy Who Could Fly? That was awesome and amazing when I was five. Not so much now. I might watch a few later episodes of Touch to see if it smooths out, but neither Anna nor I feel like tackling that one on Murderboarding.

We are thinking about ripping Once to SHREDS on Murderboarding, at least a couple episodes. Though like I said on tumblr, this is less ripping to shreds in the sense of THIS SUCKS AND THE DOG SUCKS AND EVERYONE WHO LIKES IT IS A MORON and more "your pacing is off and your dialogue is excruciating, this acting job is LOVELY, I like the use of color here, WHY DID YOU MAKE THAT STORY CHOICE IT HURTS MY BRAIN, this looks awkward but is actually consistent with the character..." on and on ad nauseum. Yes, we hate it. I hate it both because I hate it and because I feel like it had a lot of potential that's now wasted. But other people don't hate it! So, you know. Whatevs. But I do appreciate that there's a lot of thought put into making Once, and because of the love I once had for it and the love I still do have for Bobby Carlyle, I'd like to chew it to bits on Murderboarding. At least a couple episodes.

Is there other stuff happening besides moving and writing of both the fictional and non- variety? Probably, but damned if I can think of what it is. I really, really need to get back into the habit of checking in regularly at CS. Which I guess will be the next thing I do after I hit post on this, or rather, tagging, and then checking in tomorrow when I have some more closer idea of when we'll be in the house with all systems go. And I can start on my routines again!

Right. I think that's about all I have to ramble on at you about today. Which means it's time to get my butt moving on either work type work or writing type work. I should really take a lesson from Shannon, actually, about this. X time to fuck around on the internet, then back to work. We work before we play.