Le sigh. I was going to take my new writing journal and go camp out on the back deck until time for my PM class, but almost the instant I decided to do that the sky clouded over and it started thundering in the distance. Whatever, nature.

Lately I've had a surge of ideas for original stories, but of course no time to work on any of them. I'm trying to get the ideas written down and fleshed out as best I can before I have to stop and work on academic stuff, so that I don't forget them. Today's really the last day I'll have to work on my own creative endeavor's for a while. I have a social theory test next Tuesday, covering three social theorists. I figure if I spend two days on each one starting tomorrow, I ought to have a pretty good handle on them by test time. And as soon as that test is past I'm going to have to buckle down and get started on all of my term projects. Any time I can squeeze out for writing in the meanwhile is going to have to go to DL.

Speaking of DL, the 3.9 author is MIA again. Fenwic, eep, adj, etc., if you're around tonight, we might have to take some time out of post-Buffy chat to discuss possible contingencies.

I've got a very rough outline sketched out for the A plot of the tie-in novel I want to write. I know when to set it and who the major players are. I've even got some shout-outs planned (I'm thinking the main villain will be an Adjwic demon named Mudge, and Nauti Bitz sounds like a good name for a demon strip club -- or, ooh! Nauti Bytez as a cybercafe that specializes in internet porn! Two birds, baby!). Still have no idea what to do for a B plot, but I figure one will emerge while I'm writing the thing. I'm giving this story priority over Modern Brides. I figure I have a better chance of marketing this one on my own, and if I do manage to get it published it'll look good on my vitae when I try to get an agent to handle MB. There's also the hope that, with the show ending and all, by the time I finish this story I'll have the whole fanfic bug out of my system and will be able to concentrate on my own characters instead of Spike for a change. It sounds good in theory.

In other news, I'm getting my squee on for tonight's Buffy. I'm not getting my hopes up. I learned that lesson with "First Date." I am hope-less. However, with the countdown to the end officially begun and only five eps left after tonight, I'm thinking that if Spike and Buffy don't finally get back together tonight then it's just not going to happen. So if they don't, I'll probably need some consoling tonight. I'm going in anticipating disappointment and zero progress for Spuffy. Then there's no way I can get burned, right? Right.