an unexpected holiday

[vaznetti]

Spartacus had chicken pox last week, and has his half-term break this week, so I have been enjoying an unexpected couple of weeks on a very light work schedule. Luckily these are the two lightest weeks of a light term for me! Last week was also unusually warm so I spent a lot of time in the garden digging up weeds and planting seeds and generally clearing some things up. Now it no longer looks quite so much like a disaster zone, although the lawn could already use more cutting (which will have to wait until the weather clears a bit, and until the garden waste bin is emptied so that I have somewhere to put the grass cuttings.)

Now the weather has turned cooler and wetter, and so I am finally uploading some very, very old X-Files fic to AO3; some of it is so old I have no idea when I first posted it. 2001? 2002? some time between 2002 and 2005? Why didn't I put dates on things when I uploaded them to my old personal webpage? And then there are the other questions, like: how did I expect this story to end? What was I even thinking? Why did I write a story about Alex Krycek and a piece of marble? Surely I haven't written the only Monica Reyes/Marita Covarrubias story on AO3? (I mean, I'm sure the answer to that last one is "not", but I typed in the pairing differently somehow.) Anyway, I feel a bit bad about flooding the fandom tag with old fic, but rationally I know that there aren't that many to post.

Tomorrow's project: cheesecake, because Shavuot is the holiday where some people pull an all-nighter and everybody gets cheesecake.

Comments

[malkingrey]

I feel a bit bad about flooding the fandom tag with old fic

I don't know how other readers may feel, but I like seeing old posts put up on AO3 -- so much of the older stuff was put up on Geocities web pages and the like, or in automated archives that collected the stories from old plain-ASCII mailing lists, and if it wasn't harder and harder to find it was in formats that required heavy-duty massaging to make readable on modern platforms.

So, yay.

[vaznetti]

I'm finally getting around to uploading all this stuff* because I've realized that I no longer have the faintest idea of how to update my personal website -- so if anything happened to it, the works there would be lost! I mean, I know I have a mirror of the site on a memory stick somewhere... but where? I know AO3 gets a certain amount of flak, but a multi-fandom archive which is unlikely to disappear because the single person running it lost interest is priceless.

*Not everything on the page. Some of my earlier work is probably best forgotten, or at least left hard to find. But most of it.

[loligo]

Hope things weren't too itchy for him! I had it as a toddler, and had a few pox scars on my face that were very clear well into my 20's. They're still faintly visible now, but only if you know where to look.

[vaznetti]

It was a very light case of chickenpox, luckily. The worst of it was the fever and aching before the spots came out, oddly -- he had pretty much all the symptoms you can at that point. So we could mostly treat the itching with an antihistamine and regular oatmeal baths.

[monanotlisa]

Mmh, cheesecake...

[vaznetti]

I am wondering about an Italian ricotta cheesecake, instead of my usual baked version -- but I have a lot of rhubarb in, so it might be rhubarb instead.

[monanotlisa]

You are making me salivate a little here... ;)

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