several notices

For femmeremix, we're still looking for someone who knows Haikyuu!! But now we're also looking for someone who knows Dexter. Anyone able to help? PM me or theladyscribe over at DW, please!

All found and settled. And assignments are out!

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mcu_aufest: I've been sent to the PH list. Quite possibly because my writer threw up their hands in disgust at my letter? I was very specific. It turns out she got flooded, but is personally okay. :( I'm always anxious about my letters after the Yuletide Letter Issue of 2012...

At least I finished my own assignment. Not entirely satisfactory, but I'll polish it in the next couple of days.

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It's too early for this...

all the other things that aren't fannish

Torn calf muscle is healing well. I've jogged on it a little (a very little) and walked on it a lot. Going to have to start up a little running again, and probably some gym work.

I played goalie for two teams at hockey last night. First game: lost 3-0 - two to a striker who could do the switch-flick really well (every goalie's nightmare). Second game: won 1-0 after keeping out some tricky goals.

Also: it made a difference that the backs in the second team (which is Team 1 - the team I played with last year) are really solid. Actually, the whole team is solid - I do miss playing with people who know what they're doing and how to play with each other. I probably do belong in Team 2 (I'm not that good) but sometimes it's so frustrating when we hold possession too long, won't tackle the opposition, and don't move in to get the ball first.

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It's been lovely having andveryginger around to visit: both staying over and just generally in town to hang out with. *smooches* If you're ever in Sydney for one reason or another, peoples, I would love to meet up with you.

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June has - as expected - been a little crazycakes on the events frontage. And that's with an injured leg that's taken me out of hockey and out of my quilting work!

Still, it's been so busy that I've had to pull out of wipbigbang. And I think I'm not going to sign up for the usual panoply of 'summer' ficathons. Besides which Maria/Steve is no longer a rarepairing, so my primary reason for going into the rarepairing swaps is kind of defunct.

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Work is inbetween projects, which means lots of little jobs and I don't do so well at those. So here begins the next week of 'clients with high expectations and deadlines'.

And it's cold. Why does winter have to be cold?

9:30am Monday

Dear Monday,

Please slow down a little? Please? Please?

REC REC REC REC

Okay, with a completely crappy day up on the books, I strolled into the Maria/STeve tag on AO3...

To discover that Philyra has posted the next piece of her "Get Ready For It" MCU/NHL fusion where Maria is the first woman in the NHL.

The first part was I Came To Win (Pepper's POV), and this one is called I Came To Conquer and is Maria's POV and I am SPINNING LIKE A TOP, peoples!

If you haven't read I Came To Win yet, I highly recommend it - even without the (ice) hockey background it is So Much Fun.

And I'm going to sneak-read about 1500 words of I Came To Conquer over the next couple of hours and so far I am TOTALLY ON BOARD WITH THIS.

Did I mention SPINNING LIKE A DAMN TOP?

(It's coming up to 11am and I've already had three different clients on my plate. I've cancelled a physio appointment, my torn calf is aching after yesterday, and I've rearranged my lunch date with andveryginger to dinner because things are so hectic, so this new installment of the series is sending me OVER THE MOON.)

tl;dr: if you're a fan of the MCU women, and particularly Maria, go and read this. (Hell, go read this if you're a fan of the MCU characters, because they are all awesome: Steve, Bucky, and Sam are a forward line-up in the NHL and sharehouse. Nat defects from the Russian leagues (and she punches out Rumlow: do you really need more?) and Spiderwoman and Captain Marvel are Olympic figure-skaters training the team. Melinda May is their damn COACH.

...that was supposed to be the tl;dr version wasn't it? Oops... I'm just so excited...

the universe has it in for me

That thing that worked PERFECTLY for my colleague (now departed the company) in Dev is failing for me in Test system.

And the functional specialist is insisting it should go through because it worked in Dev, never mind that the indications are that some config in Test hasn't been set up.

I'm already in the bad books of this client, because I couldn't fix this stuff the last time I worked on it, before I got shuffled off to another project...