Soledad's Journal

After having eaten curiouswombat's amazing ginger-carrot soup for five days (I kid you not!), we've finally run out of it. Mum was a bit disappointed. She said she'd be willing to eat it every day, she likes it so much. But we must be more varied in our diet, right? So, tomorrow there'll be canned soup and potato goulash, as we call it. I've got some frozen sausages (Wiener Würstchen) and creme freche that needs to be used up.

I was also considering taking down my egg tree, since I didn't have much to do today. In the end, though, I've decided against it. Easter time officially lasts until Pentecost, so the presence of the egg tree is still justified. And it is so pretty, isn't it? I really must try my hand on something like this again.



Other that, I talked on the phone to two friends, which after the last two lonely days was really nice, and I mended Mum's favourite dusting cloth that was starting to come apart on the seams. We also watched re-runs of the GBBO and its German celebrity version, and I did some actual reading today. Granted, it was for research, but it was an actual novel, which hasn't happened for a long time.
(It was the first DS9 re-launch book titled "Avatar", in case anyone is interested.)

Do you know the paperbook series "The Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine"? They're the size of the illustrated Bible, at the very least. I've got a flat of 53 square metres (including the balcony), where everything has its assigned place or we wouldn't have enough room to move around the furniture.

Now, you tell me, how in Hades could two such enormous tomes get lost in such a small flat? Is that physically possible at all? Apparently, it is!

I've got two equally enormous paperback omnibus editions from the generous lhun_dweller for my recent birthday. There were hints to certain events that happened in the former books, so I thought I'd look up a few details there. That was yesterday afternoon. I've been looking for the two oversized tomes in my mousehole-sized flat ever since. With no results so far.

Apparently, there's somewhere a black hole in my flat that eats books.

I've posted the next chapter of "The Joy Machine" to otherworlds_lib. I also added three more story recs to telekis_vendiak - one Voyager story and two DS9/Voyager crossovers.

The Protective!Chakotay archive seems to be gone, as well as the Prydain Guide and Gila's Cave. It's fortunate that I've mangaged to save my favourite stories to my HD, but it's a crying shame for the Prydain Guide. It was an excellent website, with a great encyclopedia - which I never came around to save. Now I won't be able to do so.
*is annoyed*

Well, it's actually a DS9/Space - Above and Beyond crossover, titled Time - Above and Beyond. And it's not complete yet, only 3 chatpers, so far. But I've put it up to otherworlds_lib, which is the very first time that it's posted publicly anywhere.

I gave a few Trek characters short cameos and created OCs, modelled after RL friends and generally had great fun writing this. When I live long enough, I might even finish the story, together with the several dozen other WIPs laying around in my virtual desk drawer.

So, if you like Dax and Worf bickering, O'Brien suffering on a mission he has to share with Odo and want to see a funny TNG scene rewritten for DS9 settings, be my guest. *g*

However, the story is not a humorous one, despite those scenes. But I'm rediscovering it again, so perhaps it will take shape one day. Creating otherworlds_lib seems to be a task that provides me with lots of inspiration.