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Hockey training last Tuesday night: one of my team-mates tackled me, I tried to jump over her stick, her stick caught my foot, I went down.

My knee has been painfully bruised since then, with swelling, bruising, and all the fun. There was initially pain when I tried to bend it, but it has since settled to a somewhat uncanny sensation of something pushing under the skin that probably shouldn't be pushing.

I'm seeing a physio tomorrow afternoon. (Earliest appointment I could get.) I probably should have called and gotten an appointment last week, but I was hoping it would just heal up/go away after a couple of days.

I can walk, I just can't play hockey, which means I didn't play this weekend (when both teams won their games), and won't be able to play tonight (when we'll probably end up being down players). Training is probably out tomorrow night, and I don't know how I'll be for next week's games.

*sigh* Oh body, why must you fail me this year?

Literally late, not euphemistically.

He said he'd be around 9am. We got a call around 9:10 - they were just leaving my aunt's place - about an hour away.

Then, at 10:15am, I called him - they were stopping over at a place that isn't on the way from the aunt's place to here - to...pick someone/something up? This place is 45mins from my aunt's and 45 mins from here.

Well, thanks for letting us know.

At around 11:30am, we get another call. They've stopped at a shopping centre, because they've been in the car so long that they've gotten car-sick.

*facepalm*

Luckily, I have had writing to do all morning (although I was going to go out shopping for food things), and my sister (the one who wanted him to come over to look at her car) has been to the gym, cooked up some food, and is now cleaning downstairs.

I think she should leave it until the horde (Dad, stepmum, stepbro, stepmum's friend, stepmum's friend's nephew, and my cousin who is presently staying with his mum and out of work) have come and gone, because they'll only tromp all about the floor making a mess of it.

Note to self: in future, tell Dad a time 1 hour earlier than planned meeting, so as to arrive there in time.

Also weirdness: my mum and stepdad have invited my dad (and the horde) for dinner at their house tomorrow night.

On one hand, it's a wonderful thing to have divorced parents who are civil to each other and can actually kind of sort of even like each other in a "God, I'm glad I'm not sleeping with you anymore" way (my stepfather's relationship with his ex-wife is fraught, and I only catch the edges of it every now and then), but it's still weird.

Shipswap planning notes: ~500 words
Shipswap actual story so far: ~700 words
Shipswap probable finished size: ~ 5,000 words
Shipswap due date: in four days.
My feeling about this: ARGH.

Haven't even touched intoabar yet.

ETA
Shipswap actual story 1:27pm: ~1,500 words
Shipswap revised estimate of finished size: ~10,000 words
My feeling about this: ARGH.

Have I mentioned how much I hate the majority of ebook sellers? Well, let me mention it again!

*brought to you by the frustration of trying to get hold of Nalini Singh's Heart Of Obsidian in ebook format that will work with Calibre and my (Sony) Reader*

Thank you for writing for me! I will be delighted to receive whatever you write of my pairings, this is mostly guidelines if you want to really hit my spots.

I'm all about the women. Intelligent, tough, resilient women, who don't have to emote all over the screen. And the guys who love them because they're intelligent, tough, and ballsy.

( well, duh )

Finally, if none of this tickles your writing fancy, just write the pairing. These are the things I know I like, but I'm fairly open when it comes to these pairings - you might very well be able to lead me down a different garden path, and if so, I'd be delighted to wander with you!

8K into the Epic Of Doom and I'm at the end of the second scene (not counting the prologue). There are approximately six to eight scenes per Part, and six parts to the whole fic. I have a plot and a B-plot and possibly a C-plot and I wouldn't be sure that there's a D-plot hidden somewhere under there!

This is DIRE, guys! Send cookies!

It's happening. Just not as fast as I'd like. Which is nothing unusual.

In the meantime, the Avengers are all stuck genderswapped. And not coping very well with it. At all. (Which is to say, life as usual.)

Also, Steve/Maria and tattoos and sex as part of a SHIELD agent's job in deception. Possibly. Tattoos definitely, but I'm ambivalent about the sex. Should I be?

*runs around screaming in her head*

The tickets are booked, the Annual Leave is booked - trip USA-ITALY IS GO!

Destinations (planned dates) are San Francisco (25th-29th August), Greater Denver area (29th-2nd Sept), North Carolina (2nd-6th Sept), and New York City (6th-9th). And then it's off to Italy with the parentals (and my uncle) for three weeks.

I am staying with people for the first three locations, and will probably be hostelling it in NYC. I'm contemplating couchsurfing in NYC, but am *handwobble* on the safety aspect. Never done it before, not so sure I want to try it.

I am always up for meeting fannish people - anything from a meal to coffee to whatever you have the spoons for.

Suggestions on what to do/see in NYC in particular would be very welcome!

Haven't caught up with:

1. Elementary
2. Avatar
3. Star Trek: Into Darkness
4. NCIS

And so am generally avoiding LJ, which sucks, because Discussion Happens and I tend to rather like Discussion.

I've also kind of been avoiding Tumblr somewhat. As in, skimming. But if you do have a tumblr and you're into Steve/Maria, would you consider reblogging this post because I'm really kind of curious.

Epic Fic Of Insanity is...happening. Sort of. We're not very far in, but I'm going to make a big push tonight and see if I can't get Steve out of His Fish Out Of Watery Time Angst and into the action. I wrote notes at lunch!

*brandishes notes*

Shipswap. Ack. I have an old story for this pairing that I could dust off and finish. I don't think it would violate any of my recip's "do nots" although it is a bit angsty. Like, maybe quite a bit? And I read back through a lot of my fics for this fandom and realised that, when it came to ficathons, I was the mistress of writing fics that were Not Quite What The Recipient Wanted. *facepalm*

But the alternative is the AU CROSSOVER OF DOOM. I'm not kidding. DOOM. (But it would be awesome!)

Need time. Don't have any. Writing on the train on the way home is about it.

Ficbunnies will eat me.

Is anyone (particularly on LJ) actually reading this journal? I need to do a massive flist rearrange because I suspect that most of the people I have friended don't even use LJ anymore and they certainly don't read me.

Female Fest - prompts for female characters, female friendships, female relationships.

I think there's a bingo challenge upcoming, specifically for female characters.