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I'm at the computer lab but have to hurry so I'm just posting a few things:

Happy Birthday to speakr2customrs! May you have many more years to come filled with family, music, and great fic!

Congratulations to ozma914 for his (always deserved) nominations.

curiouswombat, I just read the latest installment of "Return of the Key" and it's every bit as good as the others. And there's one more to go! Yay! (I wonder how Faith and the Els will get along. Doesn't that sound like some odd doo-wop group?)

I was in class during the VP debates and haven't even seen highlights yet. I'll do some searching on my own on Monday, but in the meantime, is anyone aware of any websites that will be re-running the debate for awhile, or at least the major points?

Also, doesn't this just figure: Wednesday, I think it was, I stopped in here to catch up some e-mail and do some schoolwork and got wonderfully distracted by lauramcewan's Starsky & Hutch vids over on youtube. They're fantastic; she's very gifted. (But she's not lauramcewan on youtube and I forget exactly what her user name is there. Look for Starsky & Hutch vids set to "Still the One", "Dancing Nancies", and "Desperado" among others to find her.) So that night, I kept having dreams about S&H, incluing one in which I was writing a fic that took place before the pilot, when Hutch and Nancy/Vanessa were splitting up and this dream included chunks of just perfect dialogue between Starsky & Hutch. I remember waking up thinking I was far too sleepy to get up and write it all down and I sure hoped I remembered it in the morning. Do you think I did? No, of course not! *sigh* (I know I could keep a notebook and pen by my bed for just this purpose, but I have that type of insomnia that does not allow me to sleep straight through the night and I try not to encourage it. It's been much, much better since I got a bed in August - we'd been sleeping on the floor - but I still wake up at least twice a night. I'm not going to wake up on purpose just to record dialogue that might, in the morning, prove not to be quite that perfect after all!) (But this stuff really was.... LOL)

killabeez recently pimped Jeremiah to me. This is not something new - Killa's great at pimping her favorite fandoms; she's the one who got me into Starsky and Hutch. ("You'll love it," she said. "I'll send you a tape." Fateful words, those!)

Anyway, I now have tapes of Jeremiah and have been watching the eps as I find the time. I've seen 14 eps so far (two tapes worth) and hope I can watch another tape over the weekend. Jeremiah is set in a future world after the adult population has been killed off by an illness referred to as the Big Death. I have a few questions about the timing (it doesn't work in my head) but not enough to spoil my enjoyment of the show by any means. The main characters are two men, Jeremiah and Kurdy, who ran into each other while wandering. They teamed up and ended up joining a group of people who live in Thunder Mountain and who are trying to rebuild society. Jeremiah and Kurdy spend a lot of time traveling around, meeting other groups of people, helping them out, finding resources.... I guess a lot of people find them to be a slashy pairing. I don't see it so far, but I'm always willing to be convinced and, hey, I have four more tapes to get through so anything's possible!

So what does Jeremiah have to do with Buffy? As I watch episodes of Jeremiah, I keep being reminded of a Buffy fanfic I read a year or so ago. It was by Fallowdoe and called "Spiegel im spiegel". I hunted for it today and found it at <http://allaboutspike.com/auth.html?au=113> . The story is an AU, set after the end of Season 5 - but in this AU, Buffy didn't get to Dawn in time, didn't save Dawn's life, and didn't stop the apocalypse. The story is well-written, stunning, just breath-taking. I can't recommend it highly enough. I was thrilled to find that Fallowdoe has begun a sequel (though typical of me, just a few hours after reading it, I can't remember what the name is!) which can be found at the same place.

I love the way things blend together sometimes. Synchronicity. I guess that's become a cliche over the years, hasn't it? I still love it.

Yesterday I read two very good stories, one in the Pirates of the Caribbean universe and the other in the Once Upon a Time in Mexico universe. (I've seen - and adored - Pirates; haven't seen OUaTiM but am familiar with El Mariachi from Desperado.)

The Spittin' Image, by Teresa Coffman, can be found at http://www.cyber-kat.com/potc/fanfic.html . This is a longish story, very well researched and well written, with an excellent feel for the characters. In my opinion, she gets them dead-on. The dialogue is good as are the descriptions and it's well-plotted, too. For me, a good book or story is one which I'm not consciously aware of reading at the time and this was true for TSI. It also made me want more.

The OUaTiM story can be found at http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=1519851 and is called After the Dust has Cleared by Miss Becky. Since I haven't seen this movie, I don't know how well she did with the characters, but El Mariachi rings true (as true as one viewing of Desperado will let it). Again, well written, well-plotted, and I could visualize the whole thing as it happened. There are two sequels which I'm eager to get to. (And off I go now!)