with the real and the life and the "huh?"

Hey guys. I feel like I need to do one of those surveys and be all "where are you?" "what's the last thing you ate?" "what's the last movie you saw?" so you know what's been the up. But no. So here's the brief:

In Ohio. Living in little apartment thingie paying outrageous utility bills. No job, no money is being earned, I'm just using all my tutoring money up so I'll be dead broke at the end of the summer.

Living with my girlfriend gvambat who is working this summer, hence the Ohio, hence the apartment. Things are lovely, shiny, bright and new. Love girlfriend very much. Girlfriend is a great big dork, just like me.

As you might've guessed from recent ficcage, this is become the summer of Buffy (& Angel). We've rewatched straight from "Welcome to the Hellmouth" last May clear through to "Doublemeat Palace" last night. We've got about half a season of Buffy and half of Angel to go, then we'll be out of DVDs. With the sadness.

We have been keeping up with 'Gate and Atlantis ( with the sort of spoilers, I guess )

So yeah. In other shiny and news: read most of Jane Austen. Reread half of Sherlock Holmes. Read a bunch of other stuff. Read through almost 2 of the Buffy ficathons focused on S1-3, because in my spoiler-free for S7 and S4-5, finding safe-fic is hard, since this fandom, so not with the spoiler-fetish.

At the moment, am collecting screencaps, which will save later, and eventually make myself a (you guessed it) shiny and new icon to indicate "hey! this post is all about Buffy!" without reminding everyone about the Tara and the badness and you know.

So yeah. Quick BtVS run-down for those in the fandom who are for some ungodly reason curious as to what my prefs are: Favorite seasons: 3, 6, 2, 5, 1/4. Came for the Willow/Tara. Stayed for the Willow/Oz, for the Willow/Tara, and mostly for the Willow/Giles. Since we watched through the first time I've been a scary, scary Willow/Giles 'shipper, the kind your momma warned you about. There's just something about the beauty of a subtextual pairing that makes me go wibble and squee like nothing else can. Not to mention, teacher/student? Adult/minor? Teachercrush? Hello, kink.

Girl's sister is here for a couple of days, which, hello, weird? And one of my professors is coming tomorrow and is taking us out to dinner, which, yay! real food. But still, overwhelming stimulus to someone who has essentially spent the summer in a one-room apartment.

I've been attending a sweet little UCC church that's a ten or fifteen minute walk from the house. It's fun, all Open and Affirming and with the New Century Hymnal and suchness, but, okay here's the thing.

I'm not going back to St. John's in the fall. I mean, I haven't officially decided, but it's this growing awareness. Since the ministerpeople left, church hasn't been the same, I know that, and I've been waiting on them getting a new minister and all, and being at this church this summer has just convinced me. I don't belong at St. John's. They aren't my kind of person; I'm probably not their kind of person. I'm not comfortable there; I'm not comfortable in the south. I don't belong there. And the whole twenty minute drive with someone who a) I have nothing in common with, b) my personality clashes with, c) doesn't go to church on holidays like, oh, Easter and d) hates me? Not helping the church's case. So I'm not going back in the fall. I'll probably go to a church in town. Either:
1. the Presbyterian church, 'cos right across the street from campus or
2. the Methodist church, 'cos I kinda liked it on Easter or
3. the Episcopal church, 'cos even though professors leading liturgy is CREEPY, it's a nice place, and it's definitely not what I'm used to, but considering it.

So anyhow, that's the biggie with the church decision. I want to talk to the pastor of the nice UCC in town here at some point, possibly, 'cos I'm really not sure who else to talk to. I haven't heard anything about the male ministerperson in forever and a half. I hope he's okay. Really hope.

Girl is off doing something with x-rays, so I'm here watching the computer and collecting Buffy caps. Prettttttty. I mean, honestly, darlings, can you look at this and not be convinced she is totally in love with him? *wibble sigh*

And for those of you (are there any of you?) who are just here for the Buffy fic, there's a Tara & Giles piece between OMwF and TR that just needs a couple of additions.

If you're just here for the SG-1 fic, I'm deeply sorry that Buffy has eaten my brain for dinner. There is a short little future-fic that I might bring over here one day or another.

My fic's archived over on willowgiles.com. *is BNF* *gloats* Obviously, the secret is to get into rare pairings with sizable but finite fanbases: Sam/Daniel, Willow/Giles. Anything bigger (Jack/Daniel, Willow/Tara) and you're lost in the morass, anything smaller (Sam/Hammond, anyone?) and you're just that weird chick who writes the crack pairings.

Girl back, saving screencaps, trying to make girl wake up.

Fire bad, tree pretty.

Love,
RE