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I was going to spend the last few hours of today sitting down and writing an LJ post -- okay, well, maybe not hours, but you know how it is -- when BossBoss called me. He comes back in to work tomorrow, and he had a project he wanted to give me to work on while he was gone. In other words, two weeks ago, he forgot to give me a project he thought would take, oh, about two weeks.

Can I get it done by the time he's settled in tomorrow morning? NO PROBLEM, BOSS.

The nice thing about working this job is that people have no clue how long it takes me to do things. A two-week Space Allocation survey would probably actually take an unprepared person, oh, maybe a day. I'm eternally prepared, so it took me forty minutes to do half of it, during which Coworker Fail swore left right and sideways about having to print the documents for me to use. So I just used the digital copies, and now Coworker Fail is swearing about having to do his half of it. Which I would happily do, now that it's down to a SYSTEM!, except that he insists on doing it himself.

ANYWAY. I HAVE RECCS FOR YOU. And now I get to share them, while he whines.

First, kath_ballantyne and non_sequential have opened tw_canvas, a place to post fanart and other artsy things that are Torchwood- and Doctor Who-related. It looks great!

Second, velvet_mace posted a really fantastic analysis of why "bad" fanfic can be popular and gratifying. It is one of the most awesome graphs I've ever seen. She posted it in May and I'm just now finding out about it, so maybe everyone's already seen it or something, but it's definitely deserving of a look if you haven't. There's some cool meta in comments, too.

ETA: The image isn't showing up for some reason. She's aware of the problem, so please don't comment that you can't see it, she's got a few of those already. It's LJ Gremlins of some sort. Patience will no doubt be rewarded.

As always, if you visit these places, play nicely; I'm responsible for you and you have the Cafe's reputation to uphold. :D

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I just totally met my evil twin on the El. 

We were wearing the same cargo pants but his were black and mine are khaki. Same style of leather jacket, same messenger bag but mine is green and his was orange. Same haircut but he had black hair (and some piercings, which I don't).

I almost cracked up laughing because he came in and stood across from me and we gave each other this really loooong stare. I wish I'd had the sense to take a stealth photo.

I didn't even know I WAS the good twin.

I totally should have given him my business card. We could have done lunch, like Aziraphale and Crowley! 

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CHOWDER SUCCESS.

Why do I never remember how long it takes me to chop stuff up?

Anyway I made chowder, and I'm almost out of turkey, for grate yayes. Tomorrow I'm going to watch Wheel with R and eat shit-tons of turkey chowder and fried stuffing. OH YES.

51stcenturyfox found this recipe for me, because I was moaning about the one I had that I didn't want to use because it had tomatoes in it.

( TURKEY CHOWDAH )