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Still not at work - took today off in exchange for working Saturday, and I'm glad I did because I'm still exhausted. Not as much as Saturday and Sunday, at least, but enough so that I'm glad I've got today. :)

Now the question is: what do I do with myself today? I'm in that stage of getting vaguely insane from being cooped up all day, but not really wanting to go out and do much, and I can't do research for the Thing Wot I Am Not Writing because doing any sort of research right now feels way too much like Yuletide, and I'm trying to forget that so as to be fresh for the rewrite.

My mother would tell me to clean, but bleh.

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Watch Gundam Wing and report with screencaps!

That would require me finding the DVDs somewhere, and I know for a fact that the closest video store has a v. v. sucky anime collection. :D

...art trade?

I'm surprised you didn't make a poll!

You should pamper yourself.

CLEANING, BLEH! thats exactly what im doing. kind of hard with one incapable eye.

Audible! They've got the Naomi Novik Temeraire books in long form, with a good reader, or any of Pratchett's stuff with Briggs.

I ended up working on the database thinger for indexing URLs of stories in kink memes. XD And have just redone my basic conception of it. (Havne't gotten too far on it yet, just a login/aadmin section for managing users and am now at the point where I'm listing fandoms, characters, and kinks in the db so anyone who enters a story in can check to see if they need to add new ones first. XD)

Heh ... one wonders what the fields for such a database looked like!

(Sounds like time well spent, in any case ... .)

(And the first time I typed that, a comma ended up between the "well" and the "spent," which gave it, well, an interesting twist.)

XD The fields aren't that weird, it's just that I'm trying to do this completely normalized, so I've got all these subtables... XD

Ahhh, normalization. You know, I think I recall being told that performance issues are usually such that folks generally back down from the ideal normalization level.

And by odd coincidence, last night, the Mr. and my friend K's husband were having an "I was geeky before it was popular"-type conversation, where the Mr. commented that when I brought home my database clsss exercises in normalization (when I went back to school for the computer degree), he had no idea what I was talking about: he did those things, but his working knowledge of them predated the terminology that's now used.

:D It's partly an exercise just to see if I can do it, and partly a sensible way to approach this particular project: you have a story that could have between 1 and n characters, between 1 and n kinks, and, theoretically if you wanted to do crossovers, between 1 and n crossovers. It's just much easier to pull the story/fandom, story/characters and story/kinks out into their own tables. :)

Watch anime and surf the world-wide-webernet.

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