If you've got time, stay and listen to my story...

I was looking around and I came across the Sports Night pages on the MesmoTV app - and it had pretty much nothing on it! A handful of quotes and two group cast photos - and they didn't even have Natalie down as a character!

Well, I hope you'll agree with me that this won't do! I've spent part of the afternoon sourcing photos, uploading them and adding to the character lists, but anyone willing to give me a hand?

I plan to be on my PC for most of tomorrow sourcing due South pics for a couple of my friends - and if anyone can point me in the direction of episodes where Fraser smiles? I'd be grateful! - so I can get some screen grabs, videos and sound bites if anyone wants to suggest some.

Let's make this a damn good little mini-site, yeah?

Eight PM and I've already cleared my flists....now what am I gonna do? *twiddles thumbs and ignores the fact she should be doing housework...*

Maybe now's a good time to mention a creative-type idea I had a while back; I have the entire run of Sports Night on mp3, and it occurs to me that it would be possible to piece together at least a snippet of conversation from the source material. Maybe even a small story, in a similar way to that game from 'Who's Line Is It Anyway?' where they talk only in song titles. One of the things I love to do is editing, both audio and video.

So, any SN fans on my flist want to suggest a conversation I could piece together? Reminders of where the quotes are would also be helpful.

I also have a number of Josh Charles's movies, and the first three seasons of Six Feet Under. I do not intend to go out and get Desperate Housewives, Sliders, Numb3rs and The West Wing to give me more to work with, but if people want to send me mp3's from those shows to integrate into the story? I would not object.

Oh and as an aside - I'd be grateful if Torchwood writers would realise that Splott's not the only suburb in Cardiff. Sure, it's a shit-tip and likely to be a popular place for intergalactic detrius, but so are Grangetown and Butetown - and that's only the places within walking distance of the Hub itself, which Splott is not. A little research here, people? Please?

And, despite what the Estate Agents claim, it is 'S-plot', not 'Sp-low'! *shakes head*

Finally got the contractor around to check out my faulty shower tonight. He's confirmed the unit needs replacing so, because of my working hours, they're supposed to be calling back a week Friday, when Rowan's school's closed again for teacher-training. *crosses fingers* I also need to get back onto the Council tomorrow about the drains - there is no way in hell I'm giving up a single day of Rowan's half-term break waiting in for workmen, thank you very much. I already have an unexpected appointment to keep on the Tuesday. *sigh*

Rowan went to play with Rafael while I waited in for the contractor, so I had to head back out to collect him afterwards. Had a lovely cuddle with Maria's kitten Benny, then Maria asked me if I could talk to the Royal Mail for her on the phone. She sent her eldest son - who's in the last few months of compulsory military service in Portugal - a very important letter and they're fretting that it hasn't arrived yet, despite being sent by registered mail. Maria's English is shaky at best, and she seems to have had a row with her middle son's girlfriend, so she needed my help. Thankfully I wasn't required to do all that much explaining to the agent on the phone, so my stammer wasn't an issue and we managed to work out that they tried to deliver it yesterday, but no-one was home to sign for it. Maria was very relieved!

I wonder how Rowan's gonna react when they move away in a couple of weeks...

I'm being good about watching the baseball till silly hours, at the moment. I went to bed last night at eleven, while the game was still in the eighth inning. I knew the Dominican Republic were gonna hand Venezuela their arses again anyway.

Of course, I can't promise I'll be this good when the Mariners are playing. Or the Orioles! *grins*

In the hope of keeping phoebesmum's 'SN fic every day in 2007' going - here's another snippet I've been tinkering with on my laptop. It even has a name! *faints in shock!*


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This is another Sports Night fic that I worked on during bus journeys to and from work. It's been a while since I wrote it, with other stuff getting in the way.

catwalksalone very kindly betaed for me, and made some good suggestions as well as gave some lovely feedback that made me smile. Any remaining mistakes are entirely my own!

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This is another one I wrote some months ago, but have been tinkering with ever since.

It's a Sports Night Dan/Casey story, though there's nothing graphic. I haven't reached the point where I could write anything above a PG... *grin* I guess you could call it a song-fic - it was inspired by a song, and lines get quoted. But there's none of those irritating paragraphs that are basically just verses of the song.

phoebesmum very kindly beta'd this for me, correcting my punctuation and offering alternative phrasing in places where I was struggling. Thank you very much hon!

( Herein lies fic. )

Okay, so my system has been freezing a fair amount in the last hour, and has been stuck for the last five minutes. So, to pass the time, I typed up a little SN ficlet that's been in my head since yesterday evening.

I don't have a title for it (I'm terrible at them!). It's PG, the characters involved are Dan and Casey, and it's yet again set pre-Sports Night.

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