Random Ramblings...

[thisbluespirit]

Firstly, I am wearing contact lenses. This is really peculiar, but very exciting. (Although I did think for a bit that the very kind and patient woman at Boots wasn't going to let me have them... because of my initial inability to take them out. I must say I wondered what it would be like putting them in, but hadn't thought about how weird it would be sort of pinching at seemingly non-existent things in your eyes. However, I managed it.)

Secondly, and what I was meaning to say - I've been doing some actual writing!: I finally finished my DW/Angel crossover last night (now up on Teaspoon HERE). I must thank dbskyler who has probably forgotten that she answered my what-should-Peri-sing-at-karaoke question last spring or something - and gave me not only a sensible answer to that but also a fun last line. So: thanks!

Plus, have a random drabble! I've been going back through some of the old dw100 challenges recently and was trying to do one per Doctor for the 004/020 challenge 'crossover'. I did this one and then realised that not only was it obscure (as ever), but it didn't have a Doctor in it, so it didn't count (for my own personal satisfaction, I should add - dw100 are wonderfully non-prescriptive!). So: Tegan Jovanka has a new employee at the famliy cattle feed business who isn't the least bit scared of her bossiness... (I don't know why I keep using The Gathering continuity when sometimes I don't want the audio to exist, but then Tegan's arguments about why she ended up in the business are fun)(DW/Press Gang):


Just Like Home

***

Her newest employee was young, green and in trouble, but not anywhere near as worried as he ought to be.

“These nuisance calls have to stop,” Tegan said.

He shrugged. “I’m not the one making them. I’m being harrassed.”

“Your problem. Solve it in your own time.”

“Right.”

She frowned. “Not scared by my reputation?”

“Reputation?” he responded, warily.

Tegan laughed. “Not that. As in tough-talking, hard-as-nails boss reputation.”

“No,” he said. “Saves me feeling homesick.”

Tegan’s eyebrows rose.

“You’ve never met Lynda Day,” said Kenny Phillips, grinning. “And I think you’re all right, really, Miss Jovanka.”

Weird, decided Tegan.

***

I've got my third fake TV Show nearly done, but I'll hold fire on it for a bit, because it's also Regency-set, so I don't want to follow Cloak and Dagger with it too swiftly.

Comments

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

I will get to the rest of the DW/Angel x-over - but not just yet! I need my brain to be properly awake again first...

[thisbluespirit]

No worries! Although you'd probably be better off if you were half-asleep - then you'd blame its faults on your lake of wakefulness and not my bad writing! ;-D

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

My "lake of wakefulness"? Is that some kind of Zen?!

[thisbluespirit]

Also, can I mention yet again, my bad writing? :lol:

*bangs head*

Well, had better go shopping for a lampshade! (As you do...)

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Your writing is not bad - but your typos are! :D

Er, no, pretty sure I don't go shopping for lampshades. At least, not very often (once in 10 years, actually!)

[thisbluespirit]

My typos are, yes. :lol:

And, heh, well I've been twice in the last month! :-D (Mission successful this time, too.)

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Glad the mission was successful!

[belantana.livejournal.com]

Contacts! Can you see out of the corner of your eye? And in the rain? And when you pour boiling water? IS IT AMAZING?

Also, Lynda Day is the tough-talking, hard-as-nails boss to end all tough-talking, hard-as-nails bosses. Yes!

[thisbluespirit]

I'll let you know when I've worn them for longer than two hours and done some of those things! But it's very weird to have my glasses off and be able to see. Veyr, very odd...

Well, isn't she just? :-D

[paranoidangel]

Tegan has nothing on Lynda Day :)

I had the same problem when I first tried contact lenses, with taking them out. And then as I wore them more I found taking them out was easier and putting them in was a complete bugger.

[thisbluespirit]

I'm now thinking that for Five's dw100 one, I should have him meeting Lynda... That would be fun. :-D

Thanks. I had to take them out about an hour ago and thought I was going to be ending up back at Boots or in Casualty because they seemed to have definitely become non-existent in the meantime! Hmm. Will look forward to reversal of the problem, then! :lol:

[emerald-happy.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. Contact lenses. So proud of you. I am obsessively squeamish about putting anything near or in my eyes. Cannot do eye make up at all.

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, well, it's not as bad as you think. Just odd to start with. (I say, after having worn them for all of 2 hours!)

I've never worn eye make-up much, but it seems pointless when you just have to put your glasses back on anyway...

[pedanther]

I was wearing contact lenses this morning.

I find that I only wear them on occasions where they will impart some specific advantage (even if I were inclined to think that it matters whether I look better without glasses on, which I don't, my optometrist specifically warned against wearing them when spending long periods in front of a computer screen, which rules out my entire work day and large chunks of my leisure time). The thing that nudged me over the line into getting my first set was being cast in 'The Crucible', where modern spectacle frames would be out of place (and wandering around the set bumping into things would be out of character).

That's not why I was wearing them this morning, though. It was because of an advantage which had never occurred to me before I had contact lenses, but which I have made use of many times now and would not like to do without.

I was getting my hair cut, you see. If I'd worn my glasses, I'd have had to take them off so they wouldn't be in the way or get hair on them. With contact lenses, that isn't a consideration, and I can see what the barber is doing to my head!

[thisbluespirit]

Well, I had been thinking about it because I were my glasses all the time now - have done for about 6 years and options would be nice. I like your idea about the hairdressers. I was thinking most days glasses would be best, but it would be nice (i.e. especially when I am a bridesmaid in Sept!) not to have to wear them. I don't exactly worry about them, but I will confess that the real reason I never bother much with dressing up, wearing make-up, or doing things with my hair (aside from my laziness), is what's the point when you have to stick glasses on the top? So, I confess it: I'm vain. I just go round pretending not to be.

[akashasheiress.livejournal.com]

It's so weird wearing contacts for the first time. I had got used to not being able to see outside the edges of my glasses; it made me a bit dizzy.

[thisbluespirit]

Yes, I found it all weird this morning - am looking forward to attempt no. 2 tomorrow!

(Nice to 'see' you hereabouts again, too, btw. :-D ...And having said that, it occurs to me, that this is probably just cos I've been away...)

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

You're welcome for the karaoke suggestion! I'm glad that you liked it enough to use it, and amazed that you kept it in reserve from that far back -- yes I'd forgotten, but after a few minutes I was able to remember which song I'd suggested. I've been meaning to read your story but haven't gotten around to it yet, but now I have to confess that I did just jump ahead to the end to see what you did with the last line. Very clever! : ) (You're my favorite writer of Six, by the way. Just so you know.)

Welcome to the world of contact lens wearers! I've been wearing them since I was 14, and I love them. Don't worry, you'll get the hang of putting them in and taking them out.

[thisbluespirit]

No - as soon as you said it, I could see what the last line would have to be. You don't have to read it - depends what your views are on Angel, I'd imagine! And I didn't hang onto the suggestion for that long... I've just been writing the thing for that long. *coughs*

And: awwww. Thanks! :-D

I've worn glasses since I was 15, but no one has ever suggested I try contacts before and I was shy of asking. So this morning I was writing that during my first 2 hr stint. Hopefully I will not end up in Casualty asking a nurse to remove them! :lol:

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm not really into Angel but I have a passing familiarity with it so I should know most of the characters, and it does look interesting.

I didn't hang onto the suggestion for that long... I've just been writing the thing for that long.

Well, I certainly have no right to complain about anyone taking a long time to write something! Congrats for getting it finished.

I hated glasses as a teenager so ran to the contact lenses. Now that I'm older I don't mind wearing my glasses sometimes, but my vision is better with contacts. As for taking them out, that really is easy. Just relax, look up, let your finger find the contact, slide it down and pinch. The relaxing is important, so remember that and if you have trouble the first time just try again. The contacts are not and will never be permanently stuck in your eyes, I swear. Sometimes they even come out when you don't want them to!

[thisbluespirit]

Well, I do try. Now for some of the other WIPs... :lol:

Oh, I managed to get them out, but it was even harder than the first time. The lady at Boots said if I couldn't, I could come back in and the optician would do it and that people were always turning up in Casualty at the Stead Memorial hospital with that problem, which was why I joked about it.

I am determined not to have to do that, though. I'm always making a fool of myself at the opticians. There was the time I thought I was due for a check up and I was a year out, the time I had to take my completely flattened frames in and ask for them to attempt to reshape them. (I put a bag full of music books down on them. My glasses were literally flat when I removed it...) And other things like that. They're very nice to me, though. :-D