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Disclaimer: Completely not mine.
Title: Long View of Life
Fandom: CSI: Crime Scene Investigations
Pairing: None
Rating: Mature for Content
Summary: It feels like I've intruded on a family, the redheaded stepchild you're all waiting to screw up so you can send them to their room.
Warnings: OCs.
Notes: AU, Greg-centric. Nine (9) chapters, all linked internally.

( Long View of Life )

...and those that have visited.

I'm going through with an atlas and Wikipedia trying to remember/think up/etc. places I really want to see when I finally take my England trip. I'm planning on 2 weeks (knock on wood), so I know I may not be able to fit everything in.

Here's my list of places/things I want to see as I have it written right now:

>Coventry
     -Statue of Lady Godiva
     -St. Michael's Cathedral
     -Things from when my step-dad grew up there
>London
     -Big Ben
     -Buckingham Palace
     -Westminster Abbey
     -Changing of the Guard
     -Stamford Bridge
     -Museum of London
     -Wembley
     -Hyde Park
     -Underground
>Cobham
     -Chelsea training ground
>Bath
>Stratford-upon-Avon
     -Holy Trinity Church (Shakespeare's grave)
     -Things from when my step-dad went to school there
*Hadrian's Wall (northern England)
     -Milecastle 39 - "Sycamore Gap"
*Stonehenge

So what I'm looking for from the people on my flist, is other 'must sees' to add to my list. Either more for certain cities or different places all together. Funny, before I compiled this list, I didn't think there was that much in London I cared to see. Though I think I can probably cover most of it in a day, I don't need to linger much. I mean, I can get a picture of Big Ben while driving down the road.

Title: Hard Sell, Chapter 5
Author: Zelda Ophelia (zeldaophelia)
Fandom/Character: CSI:NY;  girl!Flack (Dawn Flack), Stella, Mac
General info: Genderbender; Not mine; T
Notes: A huge thank you to eternal_sadist, significantowl, avidbeader, and the wonderful ladies at postonthursday who helped make this fic happen.
Summary: Pre-series. Dawn Flack (not a junior, though everyone wants to add that on) is finally getting her first solo case, without her training partner to tag along. But when one death becomes three with little evidence, she's needs all the help Mac and Stella can give her to find this guy.

( Hard Sell, Chapter 5 )

• 18:00 For some unknown reason I have 'Battle Hymn of the Republic' stuck in my head. Just the bit everyone knows...and on repeat. *facepalm* #

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I always thought garden gnomes were a bit creepy, and way too much kitsch for my taste. Reminds me of something my grandmother, queen of all things collectible, would have in her garden, along with the whirling windmills and birds with wings that whirl in the wind. However, this take on a garden gnome is too perfect for the SW geek to pass up. Think it would help me to not kill plants?

What else...

Oh, yes, Friday the 13th. I'm not particularly superstitious, and actually, I've had a lot of good things happen to my on Friday the 13ths. Nothing spectacular thus far today, unless you count successfully running one of the more obnoxious people out of class today after she started whining, and a group of us told her to either shut up or leave. She left. :)))

My computer pitched a fit on Wednesday afternoon, and I spend all afternoon, all night, and part of Thursday morning trying to fix it. Short version: something snuck in behind my virus protection while I was updating IE and MSN. This something did something to my system in that, when restarted, the desktop wouldn't function. No desktop = no getting anywhere on the computer. Finally got it restarted in Safe Mode and from there, was able to run the registry repair and anti-virus programs, and when it restarted again, it worked. Yay. I'm getting scarily good at fixing my own computer problems, which wasn't a skill I necessarily wanted to have.

It might rain today. That would be lovely. It is so parched and dry here, the poor plants and entire desert is looking crunchy. Sheer lack of monsoon season this summer probably has a lot to do with that. But it's very cloudy right now...it actually feels like a proper fall day. And I'm actually wearing a sweater. Granted, it's a very light, southwest-part-of-the-country weight sweater, but a sweater nonetheless. And I think I'm going to go make some tea. And I've got white chocolate peppermint bark from Trader Joe's.

• 20:37 @pnksaph *giggles* #
• 20:48 @longshotauthor Re-reading Codex in time 4 the release of FLF. ? on spelling. In AF: Gaelle; in CuF: Gaele. Which is correct? Both? Neither? #
• 21:38 Birthday plans in the planning. Where has the time gone? 9 days...wasn't it just 9 months away?! #
• 21:44 Kitty pouncing figments is adorable. #

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I broke down and got myself a paid account again. I've been contemplating it for a while, and I've come to the conclusion that LJ is going to be around for a while. No matter how many times we get the 'OMG LJ IS DYING' scares.

I'll have to go through all my icons and get more uploaded soon.

I still haven't fixed my layout from when it died the other night. I have found a temporary layout, but it's no where near what I'd like long-term. I'm actually having difficulty finding something I like. It seems most free layout communities are shutting down. And I'm not smart enough with my copy/paste CSS skills to make my own from scratch. (Boy would that make life easier).

Missed CSI tonight through no fault of my own. *grumble grumble*

Well, time to grab my book and head to bed. Stayed up way past my bedtime last night finishing the previous book. (bad me)

TITLE: Show Me
AUTHOR: vanillabug
RATING: T/PG-13 (will be NC-17/M in later chapters)
CATEGORY: Catherine/Sara Romance
DISCLAIMER: Don't own anything!
SPOILERS: Anything up to “Crash and Burn” is fair game.
ARCHIVE: With Authors Permission VanillaBug1@comcast.net
STATUS: WIP

SUMMARY: Catherine and Sara, along with Greg and Nick attend the Annual Pacific Coast Conference in San Francisco. How long can Catherine and Sara keep denying that they are nothing more than friends? CATHERINE/SARA PAIRING (will be rated M in later chapters)

Show Me
Chapter 3 is HERE at my graphic/writing journal sweetpinkpotion.

Enjoy!

Title: Science Of Silence
Authors: Pseudomoviestar & Armandlegg
Based On: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Pairing: GSR
Rating: T going to M in later chapters
Status: WIP


Notes: We started this nearly a year ago on a whim to complete NaNoWriMo '08, obviously that didn't happen. So here we are, finally ready to begin posting. This was written in 8 states, three hotel rooms, countless pots of coffee and sleepless nights, two major computer catastrophe's, a 20 hour road trip, to many days spent pouring over lyrics, several cases of beer and God only knows how many packs of smokes later here we are. Any similarities to any other stories posted is purely coincidence.

We hope you enjoy!

Summary: She knew she would get a reaction the second she hit send. What kind she had no clue, but a reaction none the less.

Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8

Title: Hard Sell, Chapter 4
Author: Zelda Ophelia (zeldaophelia)
Fandom/Character: CSI:NY; girl!Flack (Dawn Flack), Stella, Mac
General info: Genderbender; Not mine; T
Notes: A huge thank you to eternal_sadist, significantowl, avidbeader, and the wonderful ladies at postonthursday who helped make this fic happen.
Summary: Pre-series. Dawn Flack (not a junior, though everyone wants to add that on) is finally getting her first solo case, without her training partner to tag along. But when one death becomes three with little evidence, she's needs all the help Mac and Stella can give her to find this guy.

( Hard Sell, Chapter 4 )

• 22:05 @wide_rider Apparently I wasn't paying attention, because I didn't catch that at all. Overwhelming urge to watch TNG now. #
• 09:54 Having a completely yummy but totally bad for me breakfast from McDonald's on my day off. #

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Watch out...there's going to be some very happy fangirls come March, when the first season of "Scarecrow and Mrs. King" finally gets released on DVD.  It only took how long?!?

Amazon.com pre-order, here I come... <grin>

More info here.

This makes me such a happy girl.  And where there's one season, the rest are sure to follow shortly thereafter.

• 07:02 Happy Birthday to the USMC. #
• 17:12 Today's goodness: no work tomorrow, new Breaking Benjamin cd, only a 2 minute wait @ the Dr for a blood draw. #
• 20:35 @priscellie The taunting is evil. You can show it 2 me, promise not 2 share. *begs* That was a tad undignified, but really...2 more weeks?! #
• 20:36 @pnksaph I'm looking forward to it, especially since the first two days sucked. #
• 20:37 The day's goodness has been lowered by LJ layout customization vomiting onto mine while logged out and changing a friend's. *headdesk* #

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Ok, I redid the layouts for soloyuymaxwell and salaino. Somewhere in there, half of Dee's (soloyuymaxwell) layout vomited into mine. Not sure how this happened as I had logged out of my LJ and into hers to make all the changes.

Of course, I don't remember which layout I was using, or what modifications I'd made to it. *imitates icon*

I've just set it to boring unmodified Flexible Squares for now and I will deal with it during my day off tomorrow. *kicks LJ*

Title: Hard Sell, Chapter 3
Author: Zelda Ophelia (zeldaophelia)
Fandom/Character: CSI:NY;  girl!Flack (Dawn Flack), Stella, Mac
General info: Genderbender; Not mine; T
Notes: A huge thank you to eternal_sadist, significantowl, avidbeader, and the wonderful ladies at postonthursday who helped make this fic happen.
Summary: Pre-series. Dawn Flack (not a junior, though everyone wants to add that on) is finally getting her first solo case, without her training partner to tag along. But when one death becomes three with little evidence, she's needs all the help Mac and Stella can give her to find this guy.

( Hard Sell, Chapter 3 )

• 15:10 @ShannonKButcher *bounces* This means more news for me to spread soon, right? #

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