Life is a Cabaret

Wow. I finally updated my website, for the first time in over two years. Two years! What has been added is...all six of the fics I wrote in the two years since I last updated. I think I only wrote one fic last year, which is a new low, and that was for Remix. I didn't even do Yuletide.

Well, at least my tally for this year will be better than last year, though that's not saying much. I've already posted a fic this year, and I've got Remix (which I need to get started on soon--I've got my idea and I know exactly what I'm doing with it, so now I just need to sit down and write), and I've got more Star Trek fics in my head. I just need to write them, and it definitely needs to be before September, because somehow I don't think I'll have time once I start law school. :p

Work has been going well. I've only been there a week, but I think I'm already impressing my supervisors. Let's hope things keep going well.

Happy Valentine's Day! Even though there's not even twenty minutes left of it by my clock. :p

I finally got around to updating my website, for the first time since...last April, apparently. *winces* Lots of coding, gah. But up there now are my three yuletide fics, that West Wing fic I posted back in August, and three Doctor Who one-shots I wrote just this week.

Speaking of those Doctor Who fics...I haven't posted them here (they're on time_and_chips) though I'm not entirely sure why, but eh. Anyway, I've already written three in one week, so there's totally bound to be more, and while I don't usually get ficlets/short one-shots betad, I'm definitely anticipating a few longer fics, and it'd be nice to have a beta lined up. So...anyone willing to be my Doctor Who beta? Note that I like Doctor/Rose, so if that's not your cup of tea, maybe don't volunteer.

Have finally, finally updated my website. Everything over 500 words that I've posted since April should now be up there, so, um, a bunch of new stuff.

Had to use my old computer to do it, though, since there are several Mac-Windows differences that I'm not sure about. Like all my pages being hand-coded in Notepad, except I don't think Mac OS X has Notepad, and I'm not sure what the equivalent is. Or, basically, what I can use to code my website. Also, need to find an FTP program. Tried Fugu, which a couple people recommended awhile ago, except it requires information for log-on that I don't know. Also tried a few programs I found off the downloads page of the Apple website, but they didn't work.

I really need to figure out how to update my website using a Mac. Keeping my old computer around just for that would be pretty damn inconvenient.

Happy New Year, everyone! :)

And now I can finally mention my shackinup_sesa fic!

I wrote Fall So Softly, for kaydeefalls. Though if anyone who knows my writing style read it, they probably could have figured it out. :p

I also updated my site with that fic, the Princess Bride fic, and the Luke&Leia fic. I also added dates (well, month and year at least) beneath all the fics, so that people know when it was written and maybe be a bit more lenient on my older fics. *g*

Speaking of the site, I want to set up some sort of feedback thingy. I know how to do a text form in html, but that's not what I want to do, since you can't use web-based email with one. I could just link to the reply feature on LJ in the fics, but not all of the fics I put up on there I've got posted on LJ. I don't want to do a mailto link, as I'm sure that will give me more spam than anything else. Anyone out there have any suggestions?

I've finally updated my tags with all the fic/drabbles I've posted on LJ. So if anyone cares to go searching through that, the tags are updated. :)

Also, tomorrow I'm going with my family to our house in Santa Cruz. I'll be there until Thursday, and while I will have internet access, it'll be dial-up, so while I will be around, it won't be as much as usual.

I don't normally go in for new years' resolutions, since I tend to forget them. But there is one I want to make and that I hope people will pester me to keep:

I resolve that I will write something original this year. It doesn't matter if it's a one-page story or a novel, but I will write something original.

Good night, and happy New Year! :D Here's hoping it will be better than 2005.

So I totally finished the Comp Sci paper this morning at five. Definitely not one of my better papers, but considering it's for a math class, that probably doesn't matter.

I updated my website! It's got a name now--I decided on "The Background Hum"--and a v. cool layout that lea_ndra made for me. *smooches Lea* Thanks, hun.

Also put up on the website are some SW 100-word drabbles (fifty of them, so far, all interlinking). Haven't posted them anywhere but the Jedi Council forums until now, so I doubt any of you have read them, but every single one of them takes place in the EU, so you probably wouldn't want to read them if you haven't read the books and/or don't like Luke/Mara Jade. :p

I really need to start my shackinup_sesa fic, since that's so far the only thing I need to write that has an actual due date--and one that's just over two weeks away, at that. I can write it, and I want to write it, but somehow I keep staring at a mostly-blank document and then going off to read fanfic. Rargh.

Anyway, two questions:

First, does The Boondock Saints have a soundtrack? Because if it does, I'm totally getting my parents to give it to me for Christmas.

Second, does anyone know how to use MS Pain(t) to resize pictures? Me = technologically pathetic, so I've got no idea. I also don't have any better program currently than MS Pain(t) to work with.

Because eruantale is the coolest and is loaning me space on her server, I've got a WEBSITE now! :D:D:D

*is excited*

Find it at http://rynne.decemberproject.net

Of course, it's only the barest bones of a website so far. There's no sort of layout or background yet, and the only things actually up on it are a bunch of links and my SW fics and my R/S reclist. HP fics and stuff for the other categories will be coming later (HP fics especially might take awhile, as there's so many of them), and I will put up a layout and background once I figure out how. (And once I find good things to be backgrounds. I know for my R/S reclist I'm eventually going to try and figure out how to put the picture I commissioned ponderosa121 to do awhile back as a banner, maybe, but I've got no idea for any of the other pages, especially since I still want the pages to be readable.)

Anyway, does anyone know of any good html tutorial sites? eruantale already pointed me towards htmlprimer.com, but I'm going to want to do more than just what's on there.

Also, if anyone could think of a good title for the site, that would be great. All I've got right now is "Rynne's Homepage", and while there's nothing wrong with that, it is a bit...boring. :p

Whee! Website! :D

*is off to fiddle with is some more*