{ he giveth, he taketh away. }

So...guess where I'll be, not only across the weekend, but New Year's Day, too? That's right. At the store. Aie.

Anyway, paid my rent in this morning, and put my account £40 in the black. (You see, it's not that I don't have money, it's just that it's in a different account. That account? Is held by The Dad.) Today I'm going to be reading Coetzee's Waiting For Barbarians. I have apparently brought every book home that is not Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! so consider me officially annoyed at myself. I'll have to speed-read that when I get back to Soton. Unless, of course, I find it here. I'm certain I packed it. It was with Barbarians so I don't see why I would have left that one behind.

My gran is visiting. ( Gran. )

Yesterday I borrowed the first disc of The Sister's Prison Break DVDs and watched the first four episodes. ( Prison Break, eps.1-4. No real spoilers. )

Although I should probably go to bed early considering I have to wake to go to the store. I've decided that I'm going to walk in my boots, swap to my flats, and then walk home in my boots again. That way my trousers won't get mud splattered. Weather man is reporting horrible conditions.

Photos later - bhaji are ready!

{ In this post I will be talking about fic. Specifically, my fic. This is an Ego Alert. }

So, work tomorrow morning, and then I have to remember to do that year-of-fic meme. I've been putting it off because I have one more Numb3rs fic to post but I'm waiting on omy faithful betas, and I'm also swinging between being satisfied by it and wanting to trash the whole damn thing. (I suck at teh pr0n and should never write it again? Yes ma'am.)

Speaking of fic, I just posted my tenth 20_20challenge fic. Not my tenth Numb3rs fic this year, mind, because I posted a couple outside the challenge, but my tenth one for the challenge. March will mark a year since I signed up, and I was sort of hoping to have it done by then but oh well. It's not a popular challenge, and I'm halfway there now, so whatever. I'm not sure if it counts because it's actually just 7 drabbles cobbled together as a fic (the 87 I did last time count for certain because, hey, 87 drabbles = 8700 words) - I'm trying to stay on top of the numb3rs100 prompts because I like the comm and it's teaching me to be succint. I'd do the femslash100 prompts more often except my girl slash skills are woefully lacking.

Anyway. Tenth challenge fic, check. Up-to-date on prompts, check. Pr0n yet to post, check. Work tomorrow morning, woefully, check. Goodnight y'all.

P.S. I have loved this song ever since I bought it a couple of months ago and I love the video for it, too. Considering I didn't like The Arctic Monkeys the first time I heard them, it's fairly typical that I couldn't get enough of their albums towards the end of the year.