My heart bleeded, girl

I don't think Big Bang is going to happen unless I stay up all night, which I'd really rather not do. Although, it takes me forever to recuperate when I fly east, so I'm still kind of on West coast time, and I'm not exactly sleepy. Still, I have a half marathon to run this weekend and I'm trying to get my body back in my own time zone, plus be rested and ready to have the car parked downtown by 6am Sunday morning before they block the streets off. I've been caught in that whole clicking links at AO3 at midnight cycle, and I need to get to sleep a little earlier than 2am, at least this week.

Anyhoo, considering that on Friday morning I had exactly 200 words of this story written, and I now have 14,000, 9000 of which I wrote today, I'd say I made a pretty good try at it, at least at the end. It will feel weird not to be doing BB, and I'm sure I'll feel a pang when everyone else is all excited about it. I already do feel pangs! This would have been my fifth BB. I've been very happy with the stories I've managed to produce over the past four years for this challenge, really. Two of my best stories, and two that I struggled with but eventually managed to get almost right. That's a good run.

I just couldn't get past the fog in my brain this winter and spring, although apparently I've broken through it now. So I'll finish this up, polish it up, and post it whenever. There is a part of me, what with Erin's wedding and some of the other stuff I'm doing this summer, that's relieved not to be caught up in the artist/posting date angst, I'll admit.

I feel free, yet sad. :)

For the love of god, hockey commentators: stop talking about Alex Ovechkin's ice time. We get it, we're all as shocked as you are. Stop it, he's not making a big deal out of it, why are you? Also, I think he's played pretty much the entire first period.

Also, Eric and Marc Staal have such normal hair. What happened to Jordan? He's so...fuzzy. (There is talk in the 'Burgh that in order to fit under the salary cap, the Pens are going to have to trade one of the Big Three, and that Jordan wants to go play with either one of his brothers. We'll have to see what the off-season brings.)

So the whole LJ Scrapbook thing was a false alarm. Color me surprised.

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