yuletide bear cubs and other things

[cahn]

Assignment (assignment was a bit complicated this year, not at all in a bad way, for reasons I will get into at reveal): betaed at great length by my SUPER AWESOME betas, posted, and done! unless I decide to mess with the summary

Treat: undergoing severe second-draft revision/rewrite after massive (see also: SUPER AWESOME) first-run beta comments. Will be done one way or another by Christmas Eve

Life/music: continuing extremely extraneous drama that is in the grand scheme of things entirely and completely unimportant but let me be silly and frivolous, it is taking up time when I COULD BE WRITING, DARN IT

Kid: has gotten a lot of hugs and cuddles in the last week. Has asked for a lot of hugs, as if she knew I was craving them (although probably mostly because she is striving not to nap, which comes with a deal of crankiness). Child care spotty this week, have been spending a lot of time with her (though admittedly sometimes she has had to put up with a lot of Music and Drama), and she is way more fun now that she is actually a real person, which happened sometime in the last two months or so

Parents: in town tomorrow

Work: are you kidding? Work with all this going on? (Not that I wouldn't, of course, prioritize work over either yuletide or music, but this week is really slow for various reasons.)

Books: I feel like I lured people over here on kouredios's friending meme with the idea I talked about books a lot, and, um, I haven't been doing that a lot lately because of all this other stuff. After Christmas, I promise to get back both to reading and to posting about books more.

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[sophia_gratia]

Speaking of books, I owe you an e-mail. For now, in brief: I finally finished Code Name: Verity. You can imagine exactly what that was like. There are at least three stories I need, at least two of which you would be very good at writing. I plan to torment you about it. Because all these tears are your fault. So I'm glad all this holiday stuff is wrapping up nicely so you'll have plenty of time. ;)

And congratulations on the coming-into-legitimate-sentience of your child. What a wonderful moment. When do we start feeding her George Eliot novels? (What? I just want to be sure she's properly programmed. Educated. Whatever.)

[cahn]

...yes. I did warn you! Repeatedly! :)

Uhhhhhhhh. I am really not sure I am at all capable of writing fic for this book; I despair of my style working like that. (Plus which I'm not sure I could emotionally take it.) (However, I am happy to inform you that there will be at least one lovely fic that I think you will really like for yuletide. *bounces* *is smug* Not written by me, obviously, given the above statement, although perhaps contributing to my sense of inferiority when it comes to this fandom.)

Other kids seem to have a more gradual transition beginning at an earlier age, but for E -- although I think she had been internally sentient for a while -- the outward (mostly language) manifestations happened relatively suddenly. One week she was mostly repeating things we were saying, and the next week bam, she was Informing us of things. And she was also out of the blue imbued with the ability to do imaginative play! The suddenness of it was weird but awesome. George Eliot might take a while, though :)

In other news, I am All Caught Up on Good Wife. And I just gave it to my sister for Christmas -- heard back from her this morning, she couldn't wait to tell me she watched the first two eps and she and her husband are both already hooked!