Fic: Paperwork Blues, Picture and Wallpaper

First, the desktop picture that started all this insanity.

The signature on here is my handwriting and it took me forever. I was having serious roblem with the P's in Sheppard, so I didn't write them. Before I gave up on them completely though, I asked Erin to help me and she wrote "Sheppard" in a ridiculous way that inspired the story that follows.

Title: Paperwork Blues
Author: Meg1742 with help and inspiration from Erin
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Genre: Light Crack.
Spoilers: None, unless you don't know that Sheppard is the Military Commander.
Words: Like 200 or so.
Summary: Sheppard is doing paperwork.

It was days like this that made Rodney question the sanity of his friend. Only the overgrown child that was Colonel "I'm A Trouble Magnet" Sheppard could sign a serious requistion form with a stick figure surfing the "r" of his last name.

"What is this?" The Colonel looked up from what looked to be weeks worth of paperwork and squinted at the page Rodney held.

"I'm not sure. Looks like a requisition form."

"I meant this." Rodney stepped forward, closer to the desk, and pointed at the signature.

"A really artistic drawing of a person with great hair surfing."

"This is a serious requisition. Did you even read it?"

"Yes, Rodney, I did." Sheppard sounded exhasperated, of course he'd read the requisition. He'd read hundreds of them. Sometimes being held captive by the Genii or Wraith seemed like more fun than dealing with the paperwork that came with the Military Commander position. "And that is a serious drawing. Look at the shading in that stick figure. Not everyone can do shading like that with a ball-point pen."

"Yes, and the waves look completely realistic."

"That's what I was going for."

"You're insane."

John looked at all the paperwork that still needed to be completed. "I'm pretty damn close."

Rodney surveyed the stacks of paper. "I'm heading to lunch. Want to tag along?"

"Absolutely."

And here's the actual picture that inpired the story. It enlarges a lot.

New Wallpapers

I have made some new wallpaers recently that I would like to share. All of them are 1280x800.

The picture for this wallpaper is from the Stargate Atlantis season 4 finale "The Last Man". I had a lot of fun with the coloring of the cap. I really enjoy how Joe Flanigan is standing and I will forever and always love his hair.

I made this while following a tutorial.

This is wallpaper that is gracing my desktop right now. I love it. I had too much fun coloring this picture to use as a desktop picture. I have a feeling that staring at this desktop picture will distract me from actually doing things on my computer.

Daycare...How Do Parents Do It?

My sister borrowed my laptop today and it made me think about parents and daycare. How do parents leave their children in other people's care, when I can't even leave my laptop with my sister for a day?

Leviathan is my baby. I have basically my entire life on my laptop. My schedule, my writing, my web stuff, my art work, EVERYTHING.

Thankfully, my baby is safe with me again and I'm posting this from her.

Story Toolz Login Hints

I keep forgetting my username and login to storytoolz.com, so I'm putting the hints here. That way when I forget I can come look at the hints instead of guessing a bunch of times. UN: gmail. PW: sj. These are not the actually un and pw, just hints to help me out.

To Izzi

I am sorry to say that I am no help at all in the fanfic department. While I do read a lot of fanfics (Supernatural and Stargate Atlantis, specifically) I tend more toward hurt/comfort fics. So if you ever need to find hurt!Dean stories, I'm your girl!! But I'm not really into Dean having a love interest unless the story is really well done. I will recommend "Like Us But On Horseback" by theplanetmary. It's not necessarily a love story, but there is a female character in it and she's pretty cool.

Like I said, if you ever find yourself in need of hurt!Dean fanfics I know where to dig them out of the woodwork. And if you get into Stargate Atlantis and need Shepwhump (hurt!Sheppard) stories I can help you out there too.

Thanks for reading. It's kinda cool know that people are looking at what I write.

Continue watching Supernatural, it's good stuff. I'm so excited and nervous about the season finale tomorrow.

Meg

P.S. ZOMG, Jensen is so hot!!

Treadmill Journaling

I may restart the treadmill journaling to keep myself on track with summerwrite.

Script Frenzy, Summerwrite, Stop the Neglect

I finished script frenzy with a 30 page script. The script is incomplete, there are spelling errors and there are large gaps where I never wrote anything, but Script Frenzy is over, and for that I am thankful. I hate my plot and characters and I hope to never open up that script ever again. Thank the Impala it's done.

On to my next crazy ridiculous writing challenge: summerwrite. Summerwrite is a writing chalenge, much like NaNoWriMo, the goal is to write 150,000 wourds during the summer months (May, June, July, August). Because the goal is 37,500 words a month instead of 50,000, like NaNo, the daily word count quota is smaller. I've added a progress bar under my profile info here on Got Nothin'. That'll change everytime I update my word count on the site the bar is from. I've been posting updates to my livejournal (because summewrite is run through a livejournal community). So far I have 3,454 words. I'm almost caught up to yesterday's quota. Despite being behind on quotas, I really like what I've written so far. I think it's really good.

Also, I'd like to stop neglecting my blog. I don't mean to do it. I'll try to write more in here throughout summerwrite; excerpts, word counts, etc.