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NaNo is almost over, and I don't think I'll manage to write something more today, so let's get this wordcount out:

51,940

\o/

The story is not over yet, I just begun re-writing TDK in this 'verse, and I have a lot of plotting and writing to do... I wouldn't be surprised if the final wordcount arrived around 80k, but I will be writing some other stuff in December too, Santa Projects and things, so it will be coming out slightly slower :D

Thanks to: Kubis, for poking me until I wrote, Juana, for cheerleading, and Gaudy and Jane Potter for being in this mess with me: I can now maybe actually read your stories properly :D

1) Post a list of 20-25 books/movies/anime/TV shows/video games/bands [fannish etc.] that you've had an obsessive fannish love or interest in at some time in your life (or that you simply like(d)).
2) Have your f-list guess your favourite character/member from each item (one person can try to guess 5 characters).
3) When someone guesses correctly, strikethrough the item and put the name of your favorite character next to it.

1. Star Wars Wedge Antilles, guessed by czarna_pantera
2. Star Trek Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, guessed by malenstwo
3. Batman James Gordon, guessed by czarna_pantera
4. Buffy Rupert Giles, guessed by magdalith
5. Angel Winifred 'Fred' Burkle, guessed by cala_jane
6. Firefly
7. Merlin Arthur Pendragon, guessed by malenstwo
8. Leverage
9. CSI:NY Mac Taylor, gussed by spinningold
10. NCIS
11. White Collar
12. Discworld Samuel Vimes, guessed by carolstime
13. The Big Bang Theory Dr Sheldon Cooper, guessed by pellamerethiel
14. Battlestar Galactica
15. Stargate SG1 Daniel Jackson, guessed by cala_jane
16. Stargate Atlantis Rodney McKay, guessed by bethynyc
17. The West Wing
18. Doctor Who Martha Jones, guessed by magdalith
19. Harry Potter Hermione Granger, guessed by magdalith
20. Supernatural Joanna Beth Harvelle, guessed by cala_jane
21. Veronica Mars Cindy 'Mac' MacKenzie, guessed by concise
22. Queer as Folk
23. Lie to Me Cal Lightman, guessed by eartha_endogan
24. House
25. Heroes Noah Bennett, guessed by novin_ha

Title: Five times the Leverage Crew was not in Gotham, no, really, they weren't, no.
Fandom: Batman/Leverage
Spoilers: Leverage: crew, distinctive style, that's all. Batman: not even sure which incarnation is that.
Characters: Leverage Ensemble, Bruce Wayne, vague mentions of Jim Gordon, Selina Kyle and Barbara Gordon.
Summary: does what it says on the tin.
A/N: for cala_jane and kubis, who made me do it. Well, Cala ordered it, but Kubis enforced it by the sheer power of existing.

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Kid 1: Do we have to do this exercise?
Noelia: Yes.
Kid 2: *conspirationally* It's okay, I've got it. Miss?
Noelia: Yes, you have to do the exercise.
Kid 2: That's okay. I just wanted to ask, in which episode of Star Trek Yoda appeared?
Noelia: WHAT?
Kid 2: Was it in the new one? The one with the different actors? I remember that small green guy, was that Yoda?
Noelia: NO. It was KEENSER. Yoda is in STAR WARS.
Kid 3: What's the difference?
Noelia: Do I have to draw you the graphs again? See, Star Wars was created by George Lucas, supposedly as a part of three trilogies, the first of which, or the second of which, premiered in 1977 with New Hope. Star Trek was created by Gene Rodenberry...
Kid 2: See, we don't have to do this exercise.
Noelia: Oh.

Kid 4: Do we really always add the 's' to the third person verb in the present simple?
Noelia: No, only on the nights of full moon in the months that have an 'r' in their name.
Kid 4: Really?
Kid 5: I think I know that one. It's that sarcasm thing.
Noelia: By George, I think she's got it. *humms The Rain in Spain Falls Mainly on the Plain*
Kids: *exchange tired looks of people who had seen Noelia dance around the classroom and are worried it's coming again*

New school year has started, and I do have new students, and they are all awesome (I'll get back to you if this opinion changes, but for now, coming back to work is FUN.)

New group, all girls, last year of Junior High, preparing for the final test (srs bsns.)

N: How old are you, Miss?
Noelia: Well.
K (with whom I had classes last year): I know, I know!
Noelia: Oh?
K: But I'm clearly not telling, for I value my life.
Noelia: Well done.

A: Are we going to have tests?
Noelia: Of course not, I'm going to evaluate you on the merit of how good your hair looks.
A: Really?
Noelia: *facepalm*
K: Miss does that thing she thinks is funny when it's not.
Noelia: It's called sarcasm, you'll learn to appreciate it with time.
N: I thought we were learning English.
Noelia: I weep for future generations.


Old group, kids, but with some new students.

Noelia: A, if you don't stop interrupting me, I'm going to do something drastic.
E: Miss always says that. She never really does anything.
A: She threw a paper plane at me last year.
E: Yes, but she threatened to stab you with a pencil, I don't think it's the same thing.
Noelia: They forbid me to kill students in the first week, it's tragic.
New kids: ...
E: Miss says that a lot. She always lies.
Noelia: I lie a lot. Unless it's about English or tests. I'm dead serious about this.
E: And about people not touching her crayons without permission.

E: *surveys my drawing on the board suspiciously* Is that Batman?
Noelia: No. Not everything I do is about Batman.
E: *still looks suspicious*
Noelia: I'm also into Star Trek, very much recently.
E: *thoughtfully* There's that one that has ears like Batman.
Noelia: ... yes. He does.


I'm very proud of those kids, really. Happy to be back, too.

nothing much to say, except that I signed up for even more ficathons and exchanges. Trek is taking over my life.

Also pimping: space_married.

Someone kick my ass so I get back to finishing groundverse, eh?

Also, new layout. I like it. Do you?

Internet is being wonky, so I'm writing this post in between killing the net-less time by watching Fringe and writing my reel_startrek fic (the fic is killing me, FYI, it was supposed to be a light comedy stuff, and now McCoy is angsting and I can't stop him. HOW on Earth do I get heavy angst from a Lindsay Lohan movie rewrite, it's beyond me.)

The new Potter movie was kind of fun. I still couldn't care less about all the Horcruxes business, but I really like this universe when it's about people being snarky at each other in British accents, and Alan Rickman trying very hard not to eyeroll in the background.

He's also probably the only person in the whole damn world who can take the 'I am the Half Blood Prince' line and make it sound, well, not completely ridonkulous.

The row behind me and cala_jane was occupied by some very fun Snape!fangirls who growled and moaned happily whenever he was on screen, so that was cool. And three seats to the left from me sat a girl who explained every little thing to her friends, and was positively orgasmic for the whole ten minutes following Fenrir's appearance.

(Btw, Polish flist from Krakow, we're going to see it sometime together? Y/Y?)

Of course, following the movie, I may be back on the fanfiction bandwagon. It always goes like this. Any good Snape recs?

Also, pimp: Check out juliet42's LJ, she's doing the blogathon for Equality Now.

The problem with Writing being the last part of the Practical English exam is that after three hours of exams and enough caffeine, after I've skipped breakfast, I tend to get snarky and sarcastic and try and be funny, which I'm usually not. No, really, the only people I crack up are me, myself, and I.

So, I might have proclaimed that a kitchen knife is a kitchen knife until you stab someone with it (thank you, Danny Messer of CSI:NY for imparting that nugget of wisdom), and that no one outside of sermons and the right-wing blogosphere tells us how to use our beds.

I don't know why I saywrite those things.

1. I'm getting kind of dizzy and sort of cross-eyed from studying too much (ie, at all). I love my studies, and I actually like exams (yeah, I know), but there comes a moment when too much Drama (English and American, at the moment, from Shakespeare to Pinter) hurts my brain.

2. In between studying; still rewatching Star Trek TOS. After a season you stop looking at the hilariously bad costumes and effects, and start noticing the amazing awesomeness. And counting how often Kirk's shirt gets ripped open.

3. Rediscovering the joys of public transport. (Car still being fixed, should get my baby back next Thursday.) One of the drivers on my route curiously resembles Bradley James.

4. Watching Big Bang Theory makes you hungry for Chinese. Unfortunately, there's no place in my general vaccinity (and by this, I probably mean the entire freakin' country) that has decent food *and* delivers.

5. Star Trek reboot kidfic. Too much? I mean, I thought that Batman kidfic was a bad idea, and it turned out fine (I think), so...

6. On the other hand, IDEK, kidfic? When did I start to like writing kidfics?

7. One more day of this fucked up weather and I'll be very pissed. I have so many pretty summer dresses for this season, but I won't wear them until I'm sure I won't be drenched sometime during the day. I mean, what's with the rainfalls from the clear sky?

Kid #1: Miss, Miss, I saw the Star Trek movie, and I have some questions.
Noelia: Is this a ruse to get out of revising conditionals today?
Kid #1: Erm. Yes?
Noelia: Fair enough. What questions?

Noelia: Eva, could you read this paragraph?
Darek: *starts reading*
Noelia: Darek, since when is your name Eva?
Darek: Since two days ago. I haven't told my parents yet, I'm trying to prepare them for the shock.
Noelia: ... carry on.

Eva: *draws something*
Noelia: Is it relevant to our lesson?
Eva: Probably not. It's a Mountain Lemming. It says mwuhuhuhu.
Noelia: Shouldn't it be mwahahaha?
Eva: No. Mountain Lemmings have a different dialect, where the vowels are shifted.
Noelia: Oh.