Out Of Bounds: progress! With exclamation points!

[icarus]

Four scenes of Out Of Bounds written in one day yesterday.

Cross your fingers I can keep up the pace. *bounces happily* If I can write these next six scenes, I could have a massive update on, mmm, Sunday?

In other news. I have just completed a major f-list clean up in preparation for a major friending spree. If you were one of those deleted, it was for one of the following reasons:

1 - You have not updated your journal since 2003.
2 - You have not updated your journal since 2004.
3 - You have not updated your journal since 2005.
4 - You have not updated your journal since 2006.
5 - You have not updated your journal since 2007 so I figure you're in the Harry Potter fandom and on Insane Journal now.
6 - There was nothing in your journal whatsoever.
7 - I got trigger happy and deleted you when you have, in fact, updated your journal lately. Whoops. Let me know. After the first one hundred or so I got this maniacal glee....

Yeah. There were a lot of dead journals on my f-list. Two hundred dead journals (yeesh, can you tell I don't like to clean?).

Only disused journals were cut. There were no personal reasons for defriending whatsoever. In fact, I never defriend anyone for personal reasons. I'm just don't do that. I... well, I hang on to people.

Now. If you find yourself suddenly friended, then you:

1 - Have already friended me.
2 - Asked to be friended.
3 - Are in the Merlin or SGA fandom.

Hi there.

Comments

[jackoweskla.livejournal.com]

And you still have 700-whatever. I don't know how you do it.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

It's obvious how I didn't notice so many were gone. I read at random. I just let the f-list flow by like a fast-running stream, dipping in at random. There are only a few people I read with any regularity, and that largely because of their fic.

[rabidfan.livejournal.com]

I don't even come into contact with that many people!

Glad I still made the cut!

[bramble-rose.livejournal.com]

Awesome, I'm so glad you're done with this semester and can write again; and could you put me on your Merlin filter? The story you recommended caught my attention so I've been catching up on eps these past few days *g*

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Pfft. Number one, yeah, of course you did. Number two, my standards are not high. All you have to have done is update your LJ in the last year or so.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Yay! Woo-hoo, another Merlin fan. Adding you to my Merlin reading, pronto.

[channonyarrow.livejournal.com]

It's amazing how many dead journals one acquires - I have a lot of secondary and tertiary journals on my flist, and the only reason I haven't gone nuts defriending them (it's odd to me how many people say "I'm setting up this journal for incredibly personal thoughts!" and then never update) is because my flist is so small that it really doesn't affect me. For someone like you...well, you said you'd hit your max on friends. *g*

But I am also loathe to defriend those journals because I don't know if it says to the people in question "I no longer care for you!"

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

Hee, I hate defriending people too. I contemplate it and can't do it. :P
Bless that I'm not as popular as you, so it's not neccessary! :)

[jimpage363.livejournal.com]

Yay you on the updates!!

Now - go study!

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Well, there wouldn't be this progress if I hadn't finished finals. Whew. I could start studying for next quarter....

[jimpage363.livejournal.com]

Ah - my apologies!
Congrats on finishing finals!!!

[mad_maudlin]

Yay OoB progress! I'm hoping to finish the killer SGA_Santa fic of doom tonight (have already sent first 14,000 words to beta).

And I didn't mention because I was at skip=280, but congrats on surviving your finals with your psyche relatively intact.

[ca-pierson.livejournal.com]

YES! The next week is going to be hell and I figure that an installment of "Out of Bounds" will at least send me off in a good mood.

[lexstar29.livejournal.com]

Yay for an 'Out of Bound' update. Glad your finals are all done now, hope you get at least a couple of days to relax before starting on studying for next semester.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Oh, no. Why is it going to be hell?

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

But I am also loathe to defriend those journals because I don't know if it says to the people in question "I no longer care for you!"

No kidding. I'm hoping that the journals in question, since most of them haven't been updated in years, won't mind. But I worry about that.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I need to do more recs. People originally friended me for fic and recs. I've kept up the fic, but I've been slacking in the recs department lately.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Drat. What happened to my reply to you?

Yes, I lucked out in that my finals ended a little earlier this year. I got a 3.8 in Sanskrit at least....

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

My SGA Santa fic is going to have to be short. I am, well, let's just say my progress is... incremental.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

The next quarter starts in January. Not only do I have time to relax, I think I have time (knock wood) to finish Out Of Bounds. I do have some studying to do to prepare for my Asian Studies research paper.

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

I friended you over OoB (which I'm woefully behind on) and the interesting Buddhist philosophy tidbits that were popping up at the time.

But once I'm friends with someone I'm just a fly on the wall... you know... ooh look they passed three exams today and their kitty eats cake! It's weirdly addictive, even if I don't comment all that often. I always figure people probably do the same to me, so why should I defriend them if they're quiet? *shrugs*

I feel like my flist has helped me grow up a lot over the last few years. I can't imagine not having an LJ.

[ca-pierson.livejournal.com]

I have to hand in part of my thesis on Wednesday and it's not quite done to a satisfactory point yet. And on Friday my flight is leaving and I have to pack and get everything ready and I don't have enough time in the day to do everything I want to do... Then there's the fact that my smallest niece is having an operation on Wednesday and we're all quite worried. Next week just has so many high points it's hard to pick which is worse.