[Fic] "Trollstuck," part 26 (start of ch. 7) - Homestuck

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I spent much of today unable to use my computer -- first because I'd scheduled a boot scan, then because of a completely inexplicable ten minute power outage, and then because I had to run the boot scan again -- so I did a bunch of useful chores I'd been putting off. Which basically means I took apart my box fan and cleaned it, cleaned the top of the closet where I store the fan during the winter (said closet is sort of a built-in wardrobe that occupies a corner of my bedroom; the top is so high up I had to stand on a footstool on my dresser to reach the back corners), vacuumed the whole apartment, and dusted a bunch of shelves. Also I went grocery shopping, which takes even longer on weekdays than weekends due to slightly variant bus schedules. *sigh*

My mom is currently down in DC helping Aunt Jan take reams of files and things out of cardboard boxes and put them into other storage materials, since Aunt Jan is apparently now allergic to cardboard on top of her numerous other allergies and therefore shouldn't be doing that herself despite needing it to be done. This leaves my dad home alone, still without power. As of this evening, Main St. (NJ 124) had electricity, plus a bunch of the town north of Main St. Almost nothing south of Main St. had power, though, and my parents live on the extreme south edge of town, about two blocks from where Madison runs into Chatham Township. But almost all of the downed trees have been removed, so hopefully fixing the broken wires shouldn't take more than another day or so.

Yuletide assignments are out!

I have acquired my Yuletide assignment! In an amusing coicidence, my recipient is a person whose "Dear Yuletide Writer" letter I'd stalked (via a search for our matching fandom) on the DYW Google spreadsheet just yesterday and had resolved to try writing a treat for if possible. I will have to refamiliarize myself with large swathes of canon, but I happen to own most of it and I KNOW the rest is at the library, so that won't be an issue. I am also pretty sure I won't have a repeat of the "in the decade since you last read the books, you have come to think people who act like the main character are gigantic self-pitying assholes" problem I ran into last year, which forced me to jump sideways into a canon I'd never heard of and fill a different prompt altogether.

*makes nefarious plans for Sunday afternoon and evening*

(I will tell you now and for free, my recipient and I did not match on a Susan Cooper or Diana Wynne Jones fandom. This does not mean I won't end up writing fic in those areas anyway, since those authors are more or less the running theme of my Yuletide experience, but at least this year it will be on my own time. *grin*)