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I apologise to all of you who have no clue what I am talking about when I mention the acronym 'SGA' but alas, certain persons have managed to corrupt me utterly and now I watch one episode per lunch time. Ah, to be on sabbatical, eh. Actually, it is a really restful and fun break from writing. I have been writing like a lunatic; my Introduction is up to 6,400 words; the maximum I've allowed myself for the Intro is 5,000 but I am clearly having to a) rethink and b) revise. I can only revise on a print-out, however, so my plan is to finish the Intro and then hie me to Caffé Nero with my trusted print-out and do scribble pencil revisions. I am actually looking forward to that! Because revisions are so much more enjoyable than the blank page and tabula rasa and horror vacui.
It's also been a good strategy that I've adopted to work on the book only upstairs in my loft on my ancient (Ancient?!) imac. That way LJ and so forth-land is quite separate and stored on different hardware (downstairs ibook) from my work. This has proved beneficial. I am also setting my timer for 20-minute increments. I then make a mark, prisoner-style, on a bit of paper. 3 marks = one hour. This way I keep time tabs on myself. I have to clock up a certain number of marks before I am allowed to descend to activate the ibook. *g*
So today I watched Hide and Seek which is episode 3 of Stargate Atlantis, series 1. Somehow I missed that one and by now I've already watched the last four or so of series 1 so it was a backtrack. But a fun one! I witnessed my first McKay/Sheppard moments, hooray!! But these were swiftly followed by some rather intimate Sheppard/Ford moments. Sheppard said 'pretty boy' to Ford so it can't be canon that's making fans not write Sheppard/Ford in massive amounts because Sheppard/Ford is certainly there in canon.
T'h has been sucked into my evol world. He came in as I was watching the last episode of series 1 which is called The Siege Part 2 and didn't even comment on the paperclip sets this time as he was too busy getting involved. When it finished with a cliffhanger he was distraught, and sat huddled over t'laptop to watch the sequel, hahah.
Anyway. What a lovely show it is. I am completely won over to it. I would never have thought of watching it without fanon as I don't watch sci fi or much TV. And I may not have liked it without fanon, either.
Now I must return to my Ancient Device aka imac, MacOS 8.6.1, and type out another thousand words of Introduction.
Sorry to everyone whom I have neither tigged nor togged! (And yes, I know this diction is irritating to some; indeed, it is even sort of irritating to me, except it a) reminds me of my entrance fandom and b) is faster to type than 'whose posts nor comments I have not commented on'. Also, the 'tigging' avoids the deployment of a final preposition which I do like to avoid, if possible, grammar pedant that I am.
Speaking of which: THREE GRAMMATICAL ERRORS I PARTICULARLY LOATHE
1) misuse of 'I' in the objective mood
As in: "This is a photo of my friend and I."
*screams in grammatical pain*
2) split infinitive
As in: "to boldly go"
Okay, I even admit that "to boldly go" is in a class of its own and has a certain flow to it. But I still don't like split infinitives. Most often they seem to appear in combination with the adverbs "really" and "actually".
As in: "I want to actually get out of here."
3) misuse of 'lay' in place of 'lie'
As in: "He laid down on top of him."
Laid what down on top of him? I want to scream when I read this one! I really, really can't stand this one. And it occurs not rarely in slash because there is such a lot of laying and lying in slash! Someone once posted a little rhyme on how to get it right a few years ago but buggered if I remember who it was. It was very funny, though. Meh.
GRAMMATICAL ERRORS I'M NOT SO BOTHERED ABOUT
1) final preposition
As in: 'grammatical errors I'm not so bothered about'
It's nice to avoid this, if possible but I can cope with it. *g*
2) misuse of 'me' in the subjective mood
As in: 'me and my friend went down the shops'
For some reason, although the obverse of this bothers me mightily, I don't mind this one. I do correct it dutifully in the children, *g*.
3) misuse of the dative in place of the possessive in German
As in: 'Wem ist das hier? Das ist mir.'
I am actually quite fond of this one. Perhaps because it's not so much a misuse as an endearing dialectic quirk of people living in Hessen. So by rights I should be writing: 'Des isch mir.' Heh.
It's also been a good strategy that I've adopted to work on the book only upstairs in my loft on my ancient (Ancient?!) imac. That way LJ and so forth-land is quite separate and stored on different hardware (downstairs ibook) from my work. This has proved beneficial. I am also setting my timer for 20-minute increments. I then make a mark, prisoner-style, on a bit of paper. 3 marks = one hour. This way I keep time tabs on myself. I have to clock up a certain number of marks before I am allowed to descend to activate the ibook. *g*
So today I watched Hide and Seek which is episode 3 of Stargate Atlantis, series 1. Somehow I missed that one and by now I've already watched the last four or so of series 1 so it was a backtrack. But a fun one! I witnessed my first McKay/Sheppard moments, hooray!! But these were swiftly followed by some rather intimate Sheppard/Ford moments. Sheppard said 'pretty boy' to Ford so it can't be canon that's making fans not write Sheppard/Ford in massive amounts because Sheppard/Ford is certainly there in canon.
T'h has been sucked into my evol world. He came in as I was watching the last episode of series 1 which is called The Siege Part 2 and didn't even comment on the paperclip sets this time as he was too busy getting involved. When it finished with a cliffhanger he was distraught, and sat huddled over t'laptop to watch the sequel, hahah.
Anyway. What a lovely show it is. I am completely won over to it. I would never have thought of watching it without fanon as I don't watch sci fi or much TV. And I may not have liked it without fanon, either.
Now I must return to my Ancient Device aka imac, MacOS 8.6.1, and type out another thousand words of Introduction.
Sorry to everyone whom I have neither tigged nor togged! (And yes, I know this diction is irritating to some; indeed, it is even sort of irritating to me, except it a) reminds me of my entrance fandom and b) is faster to type than 'whose posts nor comments I have not commented on'. Also, the 'tigging' avoids the deployment of a final preposition which I do like to avoid, if possible, grammar pedant that I am.
Speaking of which: THREE GRAMMATICAL ERRORS I PARTICULARLY LOATHE
1) misuse of 'I' in the objective mood
As in: "This is a photo of my friend and I."
*screams in grammatical pain*
2) split infinitive
As in: "to boldly go"
Okay, I even admit that "to boldly go" is in a class of its own and has a certain flow to it. But I still don't like split infinitives. Most often they seem to appear in combination with the adverbs "really" and "actually".
As in: "I want to actually get out of here."
3) misuse of 'lay' in place of 'lie'
As in: "He laid down on top of him."
Laid what down on top of him? I want to scream when I read this one! I really, really can't stand this one. And it occurs not rarely in slash because there is such a lot of laying and lying in slash! Someone once posted a little rhyme on how to get it right a few years ago but buggered if I remember who it was. It was very funny, though. Meh.
GRAMMATICAL ERRORS I'M NOT SO BOTHERED ABOUT
1) final preposition
As in: 'grammatical errors I'm not so bothered about'
It's nice to avoid this, if possible but I can cope with it. *g*
2) misuse of 'me' in the subjective mood
As in: 'me and my friend went down the shops'
For some reason, although the obverse of this bothers me mightily, I don't mind this one. I do correct it dutifully in the children, *g*.
3) misuse of the dative in place of the possessive in German
As in: 'Wem ist das hier? Das ist mir.'
I am actually quite fond of this one. Perhaps because it's not so much a misuse as an endearing dialectic quirk of people living in Hessen. So by rights I should be writing: 'Des isch mir.' Heh.