Hey guys! So I entered the NCIS Last Writer Standing Competition and get booted off the island on my first try. Heh! Anywho, here' the story I wrote for it, possibly the shortest story I have ever written.

Title: Bear It

Author: Water-Soter

Summary: Sometimes all someone can do is grin and bear it. Tony-centered

Main Characters/Pairings: Tony and the rest of the gang.

Series: Boxed In Episode Tag

Author’s Notes: This story is for the Last Writer Standing first prompt, which was missing scenes. I chose this one because I always wondered what happened after the episode ended. Huge thanks to ScifiLemon for the quick beta, you rule girl! I’m trying a new style of writing, so please let me know what you think!

Feedback: Absolutely! I’m new at this and English is not my native language, so please constructive criticism is very welcomed.

Warning: nothing really. So enjoy.

 

( Bear It )

Oh wow! I can't believe it!!! I have been nominated for an award in the NCIS_awards!

Category: Best angst
Title: And the band kept playing on
Author: Water-Soter
Author's email: water_soter@livejournal.com or PM via LJ
Rating: PG-13
Link to story: http://water-soter.livejournal.com/14910.html

I'm so psyched! I don't know what to say, what an honor! And I don't even think this story is all that great! Wow!

Hey! So as if I wasn't busy enough with finals, I decided to start a Gen Fiction NCIS Yahoo Group! YAY! I'm so excited, in a very geeky sort of way. Heh. I have already posted my to measly fics that I had there another yay and we had our first episode discussion so another yay!!! In case anyone's interested, here is the link http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NCISGenFanfiction/

In other news, final are over and I'm happy!!!! Did really well in two exams the other is in the air so now I'm anxiously awaiting my grades.

Also, I'm trying to write an episode tag to last week's NCIS episode, but man, it's coming along slowly! I did write it, then I hated it because it felt wrong, so then I started it over three times before it's finally where I want it. Here's the first two paragraphs so maybe if anyone's reading, you could give me your opinion?

Split loyalties weren’t exactly a foreign concept to Tony, not like cool was to McGee and a hairstylist was to Gibbs. Tony understood it, not so much in the empirical sense but more in the intellectual; an experience that Tony occasionally brushed up against. He could say this with little trepidation and a complete straight face because Tony had never been loyal to anyone but himself most of his life. He’d learned long ago the price of placing his trust so easily on people. Too many betrayals, too many people close to him stabbing him in the back the moment it was turned.

 

So no, Tony didn’t have split loyalties. He never had any to begin with. Not in his personal life, the horde of weekly women and his superficial friendships could attest to that. Not in his professional life with his two yearly rotation of precincts and cities. He was a rouse, a pretender, the mitigated snake shedding its skin at any given situation.

Okay, so I'm freaked out, and I admit that I am. With all this about the swine flu and the fact that I live in Mexico, yeah, I'm freaked. I'm also overwhelmed and tired and just want to curl up on my bed and block out the world. I had to drop out from the Genficathon which killed me, because I hate being irresponsible and it makes me feel like an ass and that I let down not only myself but the moderator of the ficathon. Sigh, I just want school to end and have it over with. I don't think I did as well as this semester, but I have been sick for most of it and the teachers are just, blah. Head desk, this is just a crappy time for me and I need a break, desperately.

Man, I sound like such a whiner!!! I really need to get my head out of my . . . and get back in the game. Now if only that was easier done than said.

Not only that, but I keep wondering about the future and I know that in the field that I want to enter will be hard to do, but now it seems almost impossible.

Well, it's been a while since I've posted anything so I thought I might as well let people know what I've been up to. First of all, I decided to put in a back burner my idea for the Twelve Days of Christmas. Not that I won't write them, but real life has gotten in my way, so I'm going to work on them all year and see if I can have them finished by Christmas 2009. Heh. Still going to keep the same fandoms, though.

Another thing is, that despite my reservations and my immense insanity, or maybe because of it, I have decided to do one ficathon this year, well, maybe two. I want to do the SGA Genficathon and the NAVY NCIS ficathon like last year. So I already sighed up for one, and I have the idea, hopefully it won't come up being just too weird for people. Also, this time, I will not write a long fic, I'll stick to something from 5,000 words to 15,000, or maybe 20,000, but that's about it. Well, at least I have more than two months.

Other than that, I'm also working on an original piece that's going slower than a snail and school is keeping me busy. I'm hoping for good grades though!

Okay, Grey made me do this! So here it is:

HANDMADE MEME

The first five people to respond to this post (saying they want in on the meme) will get something made by me! My choice. For you.

This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:
- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
- What I create will be just for you.
- It'll be done this year.
- You have no clue what it's going to be. It may be a story. It may be poetry. I may draw or paint something.
- I may bake you something and mail it to you. Who knows? Not you, that's for sure!
- I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.

The catch? Oh, the catch is that you have to put this in your journal as well.

Okay,  well, there it is. Ask and I'll think about it, heh!

I've been watching old VHS cassettes; yes, you read right, VHS, and it amazes me that the same shows I was so addicted to when I was younger, bore me to death now. Or at the very least, embarrass me, heh. I keep going, "I can't believe I liked that!". Others, I can't believe that show bored me, it was brilliant. That's how I feel after watching "That's Life". It's about me! No really, I'm Lydia and this is my story, minus the fiancee, and nearly being forty. But yeah, a lot of it I can so relate. Something that I never managed when the show was still running. Go figure. But yeah, I'm having a blast watching it. Though I must say, what I ever saw in some of those shows I will never know.

So my brother came to visit, brought the whole family (wife, two little girls) and a nasty cold. He just left but now my mom and myself are sick!! Not happy here! Have a cough, runny nose, and a sore throat. Feel better now, but still, what is it about me and getting sick?

Anyway, finals coming up, think I'll be doing pretty good in all my classes. I'm hoping for As all around.

Finally started my Twelve Days of Christmas project. Started with Criminal Minds first and it looks like it won't be a short one. I need to write these stories in two to three days to make my deadline, but if I don't make it, I will finish them and post them in one shot. I think I can make it, though, if I stay focused, but we'll see.

Well, I finished posted my fic at ff.net and the reviews went from 11 for part one, to 5 for part two, to 4 for part three, to 1 for part four, anyone else see a pattern here? Jeez! I can't say I'm not disappointed by the decreasing in interest in my story, I'm really disappointed, but well, I need to get over it. I really, really do. It's going to take me a few days, though. I guess what really annoys me is that I knew this would happen. If I were reading this story, I would stop reading it too. Not because it sucks, but because my expectations of the plot were different than what happened. Sigh, I should had posted it in one swoop, but I rushed.

Well, need to get over it, moving on, in the literal sense. I'm getting together a project for Christmas, it's called the Twelve Days of Christmas, and the idea is writing twelve Christmas stories for the 25th and posting one a day. I don't know if I'll be able to pull it off, but I'm going to give it my best shot. The common theme is firsts. I'm going to be writing stories for Criminal Minds (Spencer-centered), King Arthur (Arthur-centered), Magnificent Seven (Vin-centered), Mutant X (Jesse-centered), NCIS (Tony-centered), Numb3rs (Don-centered), Psych (Shawn-centered), Stargate Atlantis (Rodney-centered), Supernatural (Dean-centered), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Leo-centered), X-Men Evolution (Scott-centered), X-Men Movie (Scott-centered). All of them gen, mostly friendship stories. No romance here.

Ambitious, I know, but hey, let's see what happens. I have the plots for the stories and the titles, so here's hoping that I'll be able to pull it off.

Title: And the Band Kept Playing On (Pinch-hitter)

Author: Water-Soter

Written For: Diction Goddess

Prompt: Tony and McGee friendship fic, with McGee helping out Tony after some sort of mishap/illness and Tony trying to figure out a way to say thanks

Archive: Absolutely, take, take!! Just please do contact me if you are so I’ll know where you’re posting it so I can add it to my author’s notes.

Pairings/Main Characters: Tony and McGee mostly with bits of Abby, Gibbs, Ziva and Ducky.

Genre: H/C/Angst with a side of Humor

Series: Four Part Story

Feedback: Absolutely! I’m new at this, so please don’t burn me at the stake. Comments, suggestions and constructive criticism are always welcomed because English is not my native language and I have several learning disabilities such as dyslexia. So please let me know if you find any mistakes. Feel free to be honest, I’m very hard to offend.

Rating/Warning: PG-13 for some disturbing imagery.

Disclaimer: I don’t own any of the NCIS characters. I just love to torture them, heh.

Word Count: 12,334

Summary: Sometimes the simplest things in life are the most significant. Friendship fic.

 

Title: And the Band Kept Playing On (Pinch-hitter)

Author: Water-Soter

Written For: Diction Goddess

Prompt: Tony and McGee friendship fic, with McGee helping out Tony after some sort of mishap/illness and Tony trying to figure out a way to say thanks

Archive: Absolutely, take, take!! Just please do contact me if you are so I’ll know where you’re posting it so I can add it to my author’s notes.

Pairings/Main Characters: Tony and McGee mostly with bits of Abby, Gibbs, Ziva and Ducky.

Genre: H/C/Angst with a side of Humor

Series: Part 3 of 4

Feedback: Absolutely! I’m new at this, so please don’t burn me at the stake. Comments, suggestions and constructive criticism are always welcomed because English is not my native language and I have several learning disabilities such as dyslexia. So please let me know if you find any mistakes. Feel free to be honest, I’m very hard to offend.

Rating/Warning: PG-13 for some disturbing imagery.

Disclaimer: I don’t own any of the NCIS characters. I just love to torture them, heh.

Word Count: 12,334

Summary: Sometimes the simplest things in life are the most significant. Friendship fic.

 

( Part Three )

 

 

 

Title: And the Band Kept Playing On (Pinch-hitter)

Author: Water-Soter

Written For: Diction Goddess

Prompt: Tony and McGee friendship fic, with McGee helping out Tony after some sort of mishap/illness and Tony trying to figure out a way to say thanks

Archive: Absolutely, take, take!! Just please do contact me if you are so I’ll know where you’re posting it so I can add it to my author’s notes.

Pairings/Main Characters: Tony and McGee mostly with bits of Abby, Gibbs, Ziva and Ducky.

Genre: H/C/Angst with a side of Humor

Series: Part 2 of 4

Feedback: Absolutely! I’m new at this, so please don’t burn me at the stake. Comments, suggestions and constructive criticism are always welcomed because English is not my native language and I have several learning disabilities such as dyslexia. So please let me know if you find any mistakes. Feel free to be honest, I’m very hard to offend.

Rating/Warning: PG-13 for some disturbing imagery.

Disclaimer: I don’t own any of the NCIS characters. I just love to torture them, heh.

Word Count: 12,334

Summary: Sometimes the simplest things in life are the most significant. Friendship fic.

 

( Part Two )( Part Two )

Title: And the Band Kept Playing On (Pinch-hitter)

Author: Water-Soter

Written For: Diction Goddess

Prompt: Tony and McGee friendship fic, with McGee helping out Tony after some sort of mishap/illness and Tony trying to figure out a way to say thanks

Archive: Absolutely, take, take!! Just please do contact me if you are so I’ll know where you’re posting it so I can add it to my author’s notes.

Pairings/Main Characters: Tony and McGee mostly with bits of Abby, Gibbs, Ziva and Ducky.

Genre: H/C/Angst with a side of Humor, Gen

Series: Part 1 of 4

Feedback: Absolutely! I’m new at this, so please don’t burn me at the stake. Comments, suggestions and constructive criticism are always welcomed because English is not my native language and I have several learning disabilities such as dyslexia. So please let me know if you find any mistakes. Feel free to be honest, I’m very hard to offend.

Rating/Warning: PG-13 for some disturbing imagery.

Disclaimer: I don’t own any of the NCIS characters. I just love to torture them, heh.

Word Count: 13,995

Summary: Sometimes the simplest things in life are the most significant. Friendship fic.

 

 

 

 

Okay, I'm trying to learn to link up chapters, but I can't seem to do it right, so please ignore this post, it's basically a test.

Obama Wins!

The next president of the USA, is Obama, with 297 electoral votes so far!!! Let us hope that the right person won!

Obama has 200 electoral votes
McCain has 100

For either of them to become president, they need to have 270.

For those non-Americans, electoral votes are the total votes given to a state based on population. The more population, the more of these votes the state has. So this is how it basically works:

If a candidate gets the majority/popular vote in a state (51% and up) they win all the electoral votes of that state. For example, California has 55 electoral votes, Texas 34, Florida 27. Usually states are either considered blue states (democratic) meaning that in the past, the majority has voted in favor of the democratic party, like California. Texas is considered a red state (republican), which the majority has consistently voted a republican. Florida is one of the states that can go either way. This form of voting is the reason that even if a candidate gets the most votes in an election, they still might not win.

I had been trying to read a really long fic for this ficathon, sadly, with all the research I have to do for it and the complexity of it, it's going to take me a long time to write it. I have about 12,000+ words and I'm only up to chapter 5, oy! But since I'm not one to back off from something I had signed up for, I decided to write another, shorter fic. Right now I'm in my finishing stages, my beta is waiting for it and I hope to have it posted no later than Wednesday. I hope!

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After about a week without being able to write anything - due to illness and exhaustion - today I was able to finally get more than a couple of words down for my NCIS ficathon entry. I'm way behind, but I still think I can make the new deadline. So here's hoping for chapters to come along!