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Hoorah for LJ being back up! (Not that I've had much time to be online this week, but any time I had a few minutes spare and couldn't access the site, well, pretty much sucked.

But in the meantime, I've been sort of productive! I've been making steady progress on my Pros Big Bang story. Here's the current word count:



So, I'm firmly over the minimum, which is good, but there'll still be a bit of a slog getting to the end. I can't quite believe I've come up with another plot that's going to take me 30,000 words. Well, at least there are no zombies this time. :-/ And I'm firmly in the final climactic bit, so there's lots of lovely emotional scenes I can get my teeth into, which is fun, even if, as always, I'm terrified I'm going to screw them up.

In my other fandom du jour, the Take That love also continues unabated, and seems to be transferring to my daughter quite nicely. Tonight I was on the laptop whilst she was watching The Cat in the Hat, when she happened to catch a glimpse of the pic of Mark in the glittery suit I've posted before.

Ros: Who's that?!
Me: That's Mark. He's in Take That. He's one of the guys who sings Patience.
Ros: I like that picture!

That's my girl.

She then take over the laptop and starts scrolling through my (frighteningly extensive) collection of TT pics, and asking me about the Progress tour. I am currently under orders to find pictures for her of:

The boys in the light up suits

Mark riding the giant caterpillar

Mark, barefoot on stage after his shoes got drenched in the rain

Oh, the hardship. *g*

I'm also in the last fifty pages of A Game of Thrones. I lurved the mini-series so much that I decided to re-read the first three books so I could finally read the fourth one, and then move on to the new one. I reckon I'll finish them all around Christmas. (Oh, for infinite reading time. As well as writing and vidding time, of course.)

And finally, one of our local rep houses showed Equilibrium last night, which is a huge Sean Bean guilty pleasure of mine, and I dragged along a friend and her sixteen-year-old son. The son already loved the movie--he watched it at our place once when he was babysitting--and my friend is now a new convert. It's not a great film, and there are plot holes you could drive several large lorries through, but my god, it's a nicely shot film. Plus the Bean is lovely, and it's chock full of characters actors I adore. William Fichtner! Angus MacFadyen! Sean Pertwee! And Christian Bale ain't so bad in the lead, either. ::sigh::