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Trying out the new LJ mobile app, just for fun to try to get me back into posting here again... Shame there's no way to cross post to DW from here. If there is and you find it, let me know!

Last Friday of the summer holidays today and I would like to say it's been lovely but honestly can't. Parental health woes, husband health woes which is an ongoing saga, Nimoy is clingy because I've been here all summer with her so going back to school is going to be fun and as if all that wasn't enough, I got word on Tuesday that one of my past students, a little lad going into his final year in our place, passed away while on his summer holidays. Funeral not til late next week. Wednesday and Thursday I was violently ill with a migraine and spent the two days basically in bed - still not sure if it was an actual migraine or my body just going, "You know what? Nope!"

My Het Big Bang fic is posted, ready for reveal. There are a couple of scenes I wanted to add in but never got a chance to write (see above, two days bed bound) but may end up writing them as standalones at some point. It's 42,839 words so I don't feel too badly!

And also, GIP, thanks to sallymn!

Tomorrow is Thursday and the only good thing that can be said about this week is that it's going faster than last week which I swear lasted ten weeks all on its own. There's a nice storm brewing outside, Himself is downstairs with a blood pressure monitor on him because, you know, having three discs out in his neck is not medical problem enough for one person, and I'm waiting for Nimoy to fall asleep because she says she's scared of the wind outside. I don't know if she is or if this is tonight's tactic in the never ending war of "Mammy, I'm going to miss you."

This is when I stick on Darius Rucker's "It Won't Be Like This For Long" and play it loud.

Spent last night trying to get caught up on school paperwork, and I now only have one monthly report to do. (Not for nothing does the Irish name for a monthly report have for its first syllable a certain four letter word beginning with C that I never use.) Of course this week is the second of the fortnight so I now get to sit down and do my fortnightly plan, so I'll soon be just as behind again. Oh well. Four weeks to midterm?

In nicer thoughts, here are some random fics posted over the last week or so, all at AO3.

The Enlightened Self Interest Suggestion- Sleepy Hollow, Jenny/Frank, 530 words. Jenny and Frank take a step forward in their relationship.

A New Life -- The Following, Mike/Debra, 6160 words. As the committee hearings begin, Ryan tries to findsl a way to go on with his life.

After the End -- Sleepy Hollow, Frank/Jenny, 671 words. After the end is where life begins

what could she have done, being what she is -- Sleepy Hollow, Frank/Jenny, 447 words. Jenny has trust issues.

Battle -- Veronica Mars, Weevil/Veronica, 351 words. Wading into battle.

Crossposts: http://helsinkibaby.livejournal.com/546253.html

So since I'm going to a Glee convention tomorrow and it's the season five Nationals episode on Sky One tonight, and since Himself is on a night shift, I decided to look at it.
( cut for spoilers, just in case )

In other news, I have successfully completed my online course, which will be nice as I now won't have to be chasing it up the last week in August, which makes a nice change.

Nimoy is starting school in September. Hold me.

I am taking parental leave for the first four weeks so won't be going back until September 29. Just before the holidays, we got served notice of a department inspection. The team will be arriving for a week, guess when? If you said September 29, you get a prize! So my first day back is the first day of the inspection... slightly freaking out about that. The only thing I keep telling myself is that they can't come in to me on the first day, because who would do that? They'll have to leave me until the end of the week (I am hoping they'll run out of time, TBH!) and anything that they say will have to be viewed through the prism of "I am literally 3/4/5 days in this room; I barely know their names yet."

That is my hope; I'll probably still be weeping in the corner on the night of the 28th though!

I have, however, ordered Himself that he MUST be off work on the Saturday of that week. Because there's going to be a hell of a night out on the Friday and I'm not gonna be on Nimoy duty while I'm recovering!

Crossposts: http://helsinkibaby.livejournal.com/532465.html

So spent much of today doing Mother's Day cards and crafts with ten year olds and being on yard duty. Which is as fun as it sounds. Got asked by one of my colleagues when we were picking up the kids at Montessori if I'd hears about our mutual colleague, MC, who is apparently retiring and had quietly told a few people but had the gaff blown wide open when Fr E announced it from the pulpit today that this would be her last confirmation ceremony. I am very surprised and also a bit WTF because MC is one of the senior teachers to me, which means that when she goes, I am now 5th in seniority in my school. On a staff of close to 30. *boggles*

Still reeling from that, I get the text from the sister to tell me that Television Without Pity are shutting down at the end of the week. Apart from the whole end of an era thing that I have going on, I love the forums over there and the recaps have been a part of my fandom life for as long as I can recall, back to Dawson's Creek days. (Yes. I have been here a long time!) Those recaps saved my bacon on mynah an occasion; there are some fics I could not have written without them.

So that was two, and by the time I saw this evening that ( Hawaii Five 0 spoiler and discussion within )

And now I go to watch skating!

Crossposts: http://helsinkibaby.livejournal.com/524289.html

So, my class had their grad ceremony today - this is the note one of them gave me in a card.

Thank you for all you have done during the year. Your encouraging support and kindness really helps when you are stuck on a question or feeling down because you can't answer the question. Thank you for a brilliant year that I will never forget. Thank you for being the bestest and nicest teacher ever!

# keeping forever

Crossposts: http://helsinkibaby.livejournal.com/491271.html

I post this fic with a smile on my face and a song in my heart. For today was Maths Standardised Testing day and despite a frisson of fear when I was correcting them, despite a sick feeling when I was converting the raw scores into standard/sten/percentile rank, I then compared them to last year's results... a small handful went down, mostly due to attitude/checking out with five weeks of school left/laziness/not doing a tap since September. The rest? Went up, and went up big and the class average went up six percentile points BOOM!

After the mixed bag that was English, I know now what I've been doing all year; I've been teaching maths!

Also? Het Big Bang, 33864 words. I think we're looking at 35/36k endgame. Let us cross our fingers.

Now. Fic!

Title: Movie Night
Author: helsinkibaby
Pairing: Mike Weston/Debra Parker
Rating : PG
Spoilers: AU for the season finale.
Disclaimer: The Following and it's characters are the property of Fox and no copyright infringement is intended.
Word Count: 471
Summary: Friday night is Mike's favourite night of the week.
Notes: I continue to deny canon.
For the smallfandomflsh "license" challenge: as ever, loose interpretations are my speciality. The words "license to kill" were mentioned in the challenge post; I have a Bond-obsessed husband, it was never going to end any other way.

( Read more... )

Crossposts: http://helsinkibaby.livejournal.com/487461.html

Today's current word count?

30,314

Which, I'm stunned at. Because I still have to write around episode 11,14 and bits of 15. And I really did think at the start that I'd be lucky to get 25k out of the season, that I might go beyond it. Then I wrote the last scene third and gave up that idea. And then I thought I'd get to 25k ok, and then I thought I might be able to push it to 30.

But to be beyond that with stuff to go?

*boggles*

This is officially the longest thing I've written in years, certainly since Nimoy came along. And it's a big deal for me.

Which is good because we had day one of standardised testing (English) in school today. And man, I've been teaching all year, but you'd never know it. Well, I suppose the bottom third of my class all came up, which is good. But the other two thirds were a mixed bag, they either went up by a little, or down by a little/a lot. Which, with sixth class in May, and they've already checked out I kinda get...but man is it depressing!

Maths is on Thursday, so we'll see how that goes... I always feel a bit more confident with maths because the English, with vocab and comprehension, especially the vocab because if they don't read, and they don't, they're screwed... but then again, that could be bad because they could do crap on it! Still, at least this year there will be no assaults in the classroom, so I'm one up on last year!

Crossposts: http://helsinkibaby.livejournal.com/487293.html

So one of the girls in the staff room is working her way through West Wing season one. We've talked about it a bit but not to the point where I go all crazy fangirl because I try not to do that around Mundanes. The one thing I told her was, when you get to the last episode of season one, have a block of time free and watch it and the first two eps of season two one after the other, because you will need to.

Tonight, I get this text message.

Just finished last episode of season 1 west wing! We have season 1,3 & 4! No season 2! Who lives who dies?!?! Actually don't tell me!!

*shakes head*

The girl is 24, she missed out first time around and she's relatively new on staff and has only been there since I had Nimoy, so perhaps my words did not carry the weight they would have done with others.

My reply was this:

OH MY GOD! DID I NOT TELL YOU TO HAVE SEASON 2 READY TO GO?! THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DON'T LISTEN TO YOUR CRAZY FRIENDS!

I don't even think my discs are any good to her; Himself got me the American complete set for a wedding present (my man knows me well!) and I doubt she has a region free player ...just got text, she has found a set.

Shoulda trusted the crazy girl!!!

Crossposts: http://helsinkibaby.livejournal.com/480352.html

This morning, Chez Helsinkibaby!

Yes, we dodged snow all last month and got it this morning on a day when, natch, I was on yard duty! Kept them in at first break but out at lunch...in a howling icy wind. So not fun!

Then we had a staff meeting that ended with our union rep outlining the next set of austerity measures we're likely to be hit with that we are marching in protest against on Saturday, so that was scary and depressing.

And when Nimoy went to bed, Himself and myself looked at the first two epis of The Following-how bad are things that a show about serial killers that's gory as all get out was the least scary part of my day?!

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Himself is away at a Con all weekend.

First night alone and I've just written almost 1400 words of a Lestrade/Molly ficlet. This augurs well for the weekend?

End of September; class are improving behaviour wise. Apart from the little pup who kept me back ten minutes today after engaging in theft, lying and severe acts of cheek/defiance to his teacher. (Me.) Principal not in today; anyone want to guess where I'm going to be at 9.10 on Monday? *headdesk*

Random off season skating news the first - Kevin Van Der Perren has announced that he wants to try pairs skating.. And not with his wife. Leaving aside the WTF reaction that I think all of us might have on hearing this news, can I just say:No. Baby, I love you, but no. Your hip is shonky, you went out on a high with an amazing skate in Nice, seriously, let's leave well enough alone,hmmm?

Also, Adam Rippon has left Yuka and Jason and is going to train with Rafael Artaunian (whose name I have butchered. It's been that kind of day/week). While part of me is going "Another coaching change?Really?), a still greater part is going, "If RA kicks his ass and gets him jumping" (because any coach that says "Good job", after a skate like he had in Nice needs to be changed, sorry Yuka) then maybe it's all for the good." But with Evan back next year and Johnny too, men's skating in the USA looks like it's going to be insane.. Take that any way you like.

New school year has begun. I have a class five million times nicer than last years but man. Can they talk. Give them a piece of work to do by themselves quietly, and it's chatter. By Friday of last week I broke and gave out hell. I got, "But, Miss. We're talking about the work." I actually said, "I DON'T CARE! I told you to do it on your own with no talking, now do it on your own with no talking!" Seriously, what part of that is ambiguous? Really.

Am considering trying to do the Small Fandom Big Bang and something on a Sherlock prompt party post has given me an idea that might spin into a Sherlock Big Bang fic. Hold me?

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Wow, June was a bad month for LiveJournaling. Bad for fannish things in general it appears. This class have well and truly sucked the life out of me but tomorrow is Graduation Day and apologies for the language but truly all I can say is "Thank fuck for that."

A link because it's awesome. I'm not like other girls by

claudiagray because it's just that awesome.

Been a rough week and a half at work, the weather is the only thing making it bearable - I did PE three times this week, have been taking the kids out for English reading and even let them run around and play "Stuck in the Mud" for five mins at the end of the lesson one day! Monday will tell the tale of the rest of my year...

Steven Cousins was 40 yesterday. How is this even possible?

And since the sun seems to have gone to my head...

1. Pick a pairing or a character
2. Ask me my particular head!canon regarding something about them
3. Post to your journal to share your own head!canon!

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Small Fandoms Fest Fandom Pimp for Flashforward -- man, do I miss this show. Talk about your untapped potential.

Today is Thursday, the last night of three that Himself is working nights. It is also my technical Friday, being as two thirds of my class will have their entrance exams for the local secondary schools tomorrow (the remaining third will sit theirs next month) and they will not be in. The remaining children will be helping me organise files/work/science boxes/random equipment boxes organised in my room; they may even be called to help other, non sixth class teachers to do various bits and pieces. And for the first time in my teaching career today, I did not even front with them; when they asked me would they be doing work (meaning maths/Irish/writing of any sort) I looked at them, I did not blink and I told them, "You are going to be my slaves, I will work you til you drop."

It being a technical Friday I feel no shame in cracking open a bottle of wine, despite the fact that I made a new year resolution that I would only drink at weekends. I have had a week and a half this week, to the point that I was telling some of the other teachers that I felt like the kid with his finger in the dam trying to stop the flood, and every time that he got one blocked, another one popped up. There has literally been two or three incidents every single day with my class; kids you'd expect it from and ones that you wouldn't and it is completely wearing me down. I have earned this glass of wine damn it and I am going to enjoy it!

A Hawaii 5-0 Drabble Challenge hosted by

powrhug, all pairings and all ratings.

Walked into class this morning and began by stamping on everyone (verbally, of course). Had peace, quiet and good behaviour on our walk through the town up to the library where we were a half hour and more early for our global warming workshop because they'd given us the wrong time. Kids spent time sitting in the junior library section, looking through books and having whispered chats, good as gold. Went home tonight with feck all homework to prove how nice I can be when they do what I say.

Then came back to school and saw someone (NewHelsinkiPrincipal most likely) had left the scores and highlights of the new circular on literacy and numeracy from the department of education on my desk. Plenty of "duh, what do you think we've been doing" moments, and frankly scary moments of assessment and who they need to go to ahoy.... I see league tables a la UK on our horizon. Not good.

Have spent today being reminded of the difference it can make when one child is absent, if it is the right child! Am now resolved to go in stamping tomorrow!

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When you walk into school at nine o'clock on Monday morning and discover you're on yard duty that day, you know things aren't going to go well for the rest of the day. I'm just sayin'.

In other news, the President of the Russian Skating Federation has confirmed that Khokhlova and Andreev are done. Heard earlier on in the month tha he was injured so I'm not too surprised but I admit to being disappointed at the loss of the pretty.

Also Sean Maher came out as gay. Not having been a huge fan of his character in Firefly, but having bawled at Brian's Song (yes, I know, ok?) and having looked at the odd ep of Ryan Caulfield (and he's right about how people would have reacted if he'd come out then) and having met him at Serenity 2, I'm a fan of his and I'm delighted to hear that he's happy and content in his life and that he feels able to talk about this now.

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If you've not seen This and you're a JJ/Hotch fan from Criminal Minds then you really need to click the link. Billed as a pic spam, it's more of a manifesto of why they should be shipped by anyone and everyone...seriously, why aren't more people shipping them? Apart from the Will and Haley of it all, that is.

I would post about my new class but this is supposed to be my happy escape. Suffice to say, is it October yet?

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Lovely article by Christine Brennan ( and Lord knows it's not often I say that!) about Jeremy Glick's family and how they are choosing to remember him. For those of you who don't know the name, Jeremy Glick died on Flight 93 when it crashed into the Pentagon almost ten years ago. His sister Joanna was a figure skater at the time who was involved in skating in some post 9-11 shows; I could be wrong but i think Michael Weiss became a big champion of hers.

Almost the weekend and the end of the first full week of school, and boy do I feel it - I'm exhausted at the minute, have signed up for two Big Bangs and have nothing done for either! OK that's a lie, I have an outline for the Mentalist story. But it's a long way from that to 10,000 words! And i have yard duty tomorrow...and my new yard partner is NewHelsinkiPrincipal! Not sure how I feel about that...

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OK, so is there anyone out there who could shed some light on why in the name of sanity Firefox is refusing to connect to the internet on my laptop, but Internet Explorer is working just fine and dandy? Huh?

Back to school tomorrow for half day of staff meeting and half day of classroom planning. Fun times. Kids in on Thursday.

Please remind me next year to not go on holidays for a week the week before school goes back. Abigail, having slept in a cot in the same room as us for a week, now does not want to go to sleep on her own. Sunday, it wasn't an issue because she was so tired she just conked out. Yesterday it took nearly an hour and a half for her to go asleep, tonight 45 minutes. Both times, I used Supernanny's Sleep Separation technique, bless you Jo Frost wherever you are.

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