I have an urgent request for a second beta.

Due to real life I haven't heard from my first beta for a while and I have no second beata reader at all.

I have a feeling that this may well be because I am doing a Carson/Radek story. I would really like to get a second beta and wondered if anyone knew how I go about it!!

I'm not looking for anyone doing the BigBang itself to help me out just some suggestions as to where I may go for help!!!

Thanks

Fandom: WATCHMEN
Pairing: gen, Dan/Laurie mentioned
Length: 2200 words
Author on LJ: septicemic
Author Website: unknown
Why this must be read:

(Warning: contains major spoilers.)

Twenty years after the events of Watchmen wrap up, Dan Dreiberg goes public with his secret identity and grants an interview to a reporter.

This is a wonderful look at Dan, a bittersweet mix of nostalgia for the early days, and the grim reality of later events, which even now cannot be fully discussed. It's also a lovely tribute to Rorschach, bringing forth his best qualities without being overly sentimental.


The Sun Rises on Nite Owl

Today we were holding a reunion and barbecue at school for pupils who used to study here. After yesterday's rain the morning dawned bright and sunny.

I got my trainers on and ran in, covering the 2 to 3 miles without really breaking into sweat, until the final hill where several cars passed me, with old familiar faces smiling widely, and waves and sudden flashes of recognition.

The school is stunning in its early summer beauty. The rhododendron bushes are in flower, and everything is so fresh and green. It was a really happy gathering. It's amazing meeting young men and women who you remember as 11-year-old children, and haven't seen for a decade. And yet, they still seem so familiar, even though they are now young adults.

I was touched by the open friendliness, and how pleased people were to be meeting up again. It was an affirmation of the trust we'd built all those years ago, and really encouraging to catch up on their news, and what they are doing, and everything they are becoming.

One young man, now 20 or 21, laughed and said: "I still remember how you picked me up and put me in the litter bin." And it all came flooding back, and the random action, and good humour. Years that have passed inbetween, yet the moment still alive and joyful...

Then I ran off down the hill, across lush fields of buttercups and patches of sky blue speedwell... down, down, down to the canal and along the sunny towpath. About 200 children on an outing - all Orthodox Jews - came past me as I ran.

The sun sparkled on the water.

Those children, too, on a journey. As we all are. A journey towards wholeness and our own unfolding future.

Most of us remember the exhilaration of the tearing down of the Berlin Wall. That wall symbolized the We/Them mentality that SO last century. Yet walls around the globe are back in fashion. Huge walls meander on for miles separating Sunni's and Shiites in the middle east, and separating Jews and Palestinians in the West Bank. Now America is building miles and miles of walls holding back honest, dependable workers from Mexico. Politicians are staking their careers on the fears of the baby boomers who are terrified that illegals might take their dream of retiring as a greeter at Walmart.

This week, in tiny Postville, Iowa, the government hauled away three hundred meat packing workers with improper citizenship docs. Some of these folks have been here for a decade, paying U.S. and state taxes with every paycheck, yet never claiming a refund, and paying sales taxes with every purchase. On Friday, attendance of the public schools were cut by half as families hid from ICE. Lots of good teachers will lose their jobs if the kids don't come back. Chances are the families will migrate to a nearby state, and start again at menial grimy jobs Americans don't want. Here in Phoenix our asshole Sheriff is at war with our governor and Mayor because nothing in the world is more important to him than rounding up the Mexicans seeking work as roofers in 100 degree weather, or spreading shovel fulls of rocks in the xeriscaped yards in Scottsdale. Our governor and Mayor have had the audacity to suggest that Sheriff Joe chase rapists and murderers instead of house keepers with broken tail lights. The Sheriff is retaliating, as he always does, by opening an investigation of the Mayor.

For some reason I'm reminded of our trolley system here. In the fifties the trolleys rolled over our major streets providing low cost, clean, safe and environmentally friendly transportation to all. The city tore all that out decades ago. Now they're spending a billion dollars to put the trolley system back in place as pollution and high fuel costs prove they were right the first time. Of course there are detractors, complaining that now the beggars and thieves have easy passage to the 'burbs. Those same folks won't complain when their gardener takes the bus.

Tearing it down, putting it up, then tearing it down again. When will we ever learn?

The materials for the NOLOSE envelope stuffing party will soon be on their way to me in South Pasadena/ Los Angeles, and now it is time to schedule the party itself. I'd like to have it either on the weekend of  Saturday May 31/ Sunday June 1 or Sat. June 7/ Sun. June 8. The date decided upon will depend on your desire and ability to commit to helping make it happen!

If you're interested in helping with this and live in the Los Angeles metro area, please comment here and state your preferred date(s) and time(s) of day. Please leave your email address as well. Once I get an idea of who can show up when, I'll email you with the date, time and address of the party.

Thanks so much for all of your interest and help with this!

For more information about NOLOSE's mission and upcoming 2008 conference in Northampton, MA, please see the website at nolose.org.

P.S. you don't need to be fat and/or queer to help with this - if you're intrested, just let me know!

Summary

Wikipedia Entry

Prompt:
Make a Choice

Questions:

No questions today, but with this one does anyone really need it?

Note: I’m posting this from the airport. Sorry for it being late, although how many of these have been on time? X| Next week we will be reading MM1: The Andalite’s Gift, not #8 The Alien. Don’t forget!

Rules:
- Common sense: be nice, be literate, be mature. If you can’t handle that, we’ll ask you to leave.

- Start on topic. If your conversation takes you into the land of ferrets and their evil quest to take over the world, run with it. But please at least start off talking about the book or subjects at hand.

- The questions and prompts are optional. Do not feel obliged to keep your comments only to what we have posted. They are a guide, a starting point, not a limitation.

- There is no time limit.

- Don’t delete your comments, unless it’s for the purpose of fixing typos.

- Keep your discussion to the current or previous books.

Pro's:
1. I'm getting 80g+ of protein on most days
2. I feel healthy
3. Only threw up a handful of times this week
4. Can cross my legs uncomfortably, but still can do it
5. I'm able to do everything i could do before surgery and some things I couldn't
6. Normal semi-regular bowel movements


Con's:
1. I didn't lose any weight this week
2. I haven't done any exercise
3. I see some bad food choices starting to creep (hoping it was just PMS craving)
4. Having to do more thinking about what i eat b/c what used to hold me for 4 hours is only holding me for 2hrs. For example, 1 4oz cup of yogurt was easy and i wouldn't be hungry, now, i have to have that yogurt And something else to last 4 hours
5. I get ~34 oz/day consistently, not 48.
6. Gas gas and more gas!
7. Not getting my vitamins in.

lap VSG (3/24/08)
Dr Alex Gandsas, Sinai Hospital
226/217/188/130

Fandom: SGA
Series: Highschool Heroes
Title: Dog Days
Part: 3/5
Characters: Eventual John/Rodney, Teyla/Carson, Ronon/Weir, ensemble
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Whump, language
Beta: sherriaisling, who pretty much owns my soul in this verse.
Disclaimer: Not mine!
Summary: The one where Rodney tests his limits and John is not good at being patient.

Title: Subtext
Author: Jewels (bjewelled)
Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis
Summary: Fairy tales are a peculiarly Human thing, and they deal with particularly Human emotions. What’s an Asgard to do?
Notes: I have no idea what possessed me to write this. But Hermiod just doesn’t get enough love, in my opinion.
Word Count: 3,261

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