My mind, and the places it goes

Do canons with established romantic relationships lend themselves more to AUs because otherwise you don't have the opportunity to write the how-they-met story, the how-they-got-together story? I mean, yeah. Many canons have the how-the-characters-met story in canon. But why, for example, are there a ton of Glee AUs for Kurt and Blaine but not nearly as many in, say, White Collar for Peter and Neal?

(I don't know that I've ever met a fandom as full of AUs as Glee.)

Or, recursive blogging about blogging.

I am considering doing this, but I cannot figure out (a) if I will keep up with it or (b) what I would choose as my overarching topic. So, I turn to you, my readers, with three questions:

1. Should I do it?
2. What should I write about, should I actually choose to do so?
3. Will you guys keep on my case to write about the [whatever]?

I know I still owe 14 posts on topics provided by twitch124 and dpolicar; I hope to start those in the next day or so.

When last we left our heroine, she had the following list:

-- Knitting. Lots and lots of knitting.
-- A post on "Who writes your dialogue?"
-- Figuring out menu for the Shavuot meal we're hosting.
-- Taking the photos that were requested a while back.
-- Figuring out the Happy Monday gifts for the folks due them.
-- Trying to figure out what I'm going to give my d'var Torah on this week.

Plus lots of work stuff.

And so there has been progress. To wit:

-- Work stuff: Good progress made. No longer panicking about next week's deadline.
-- Knitting: Still knitting. Cast on the back of my sweater-of-the-miserable-gauge and have been working on the Complex Scarf of Much Cableness.
-- Shavuot menu: Have figured out dessert, but not much else. Will ponder over next day or so.
-- D'var Torah: Have idea. Will spend 5-10 minutes geeking about Hebrew grammar. So there. :-)

Other stuff still in progress. But at least there's been some movement, so I'm feeling (a bit) less stressed.

I've picked up a bunch of new readers round these parts recently, so I figured it was about time to rerun the "General Guide to the gnomiverse" post (now updated and expanded! And 20% more expensive for a slightly smaller box!).

Things One Should Know About gnomi:

-- I'm originally from Burlington, Massachusetts.
-- I have the following relatives that hang out on LJ with varying levels of regularity: mabfan (my husband), lcmlc (my mother), beckyfeld (my sister), and osewalrus (my brother-in-law, married to beckyfeld)
-- There are folks on my friends list who I have known since elementary school or even before.
-- I am a word nerd and an inveterate punster. I wrangle words professionally, both as a technical writer and as a freelance editor.
-- I grew up functionally bilingual in an English-speaking household (a story unto itself). This means that I occasionally run into words in my vocabulary that don't have English equivalents, and this will spill over into my LJ. As a general policy, if I use a word/phrase/concept that needs more explanation, please tell me.
-- I'm an Orthodox Jew, and I have been known to yammer on about obscure Jewish topics here.
-- I knit (a lot), I sew (less than I used to, but still a decent amount), and I'm occasionally dabble in beading.
-- I have an inexplicable love of penguins.
-- I have a standing policy on icons in comments.
-- My life is one long musical cue. Anything and everything is a prompt for me to break out in song (or, as it manifests itself here periodically, in random lyrics), and I'm hugely susceptible to earworms.
-- I will break out into song at the smallest provocation.
-- I encourage discussion in comments, as long as everyone stays civil. Disagreement is good; ad hominem attacks will not be tolerated (and will be deleted).

Recurring Features in the gnomiverse:

-- "No, Really, We Talk Like This" (oddball conversations, usually between mabfan and me)
-- Language-related polls
-- Menu planning (usually for Shabbat (the Sabbath) or Jewish holidays)
-- Rambly Bits (catchall posts of stuff I've been thinking about that don't merit their own posts)

As a couple of people have pointed out, "Narf" is always an appropriate response to a question I ask.

So, pull up a seat, grab a drink or a snack, and enjoy yourself!

I ended up stopping for red thread on my way home on Monday, and then I put said thread to use on Monday night.

Last night, I went to the library with mabfan (and, yes, I know he set out to rig my poll). In the end, I didn't actually write anything while I was there. I websurfed for a bit, and then, once the network went down, I ended up browsing the stacks. Because, well, when the network went down, so did the online card catalogue, so I was on my own trying to find stuff. The reference librarians are good and know their stuff, and to some extent they know Dewey by heart, enough to point someone in the right direction, but I wasn't going to play "stump the librarian," so I wandered in and around the stacks until I found one book -- a biography of Oliver Cromwell -- that I felt I wanted to take home with me. And, having chosen a book, I had the added pleasure of a brief shmooze with devoken.

By then it was 9-ish and the library was closing but mabfan's meeting was still going, so I went upstairs to the Trustees' area and sat and knit until the meeting ended.

So, thanks for the guidance on what I should do with my past two evenings. Tonight, I think I know what I'm doing -- after work, I'm getting the mail at the PO, then stopping for veggies, and then going home to make a side dish for Friday dinner (we're going to friends).

And, so far, I have been unable to track down Narf!-colored thread, but I did look for Narf! at the library last night. :-)

A number of years ago at this point, I ran a poll to find out which people would prefer to see at their door, Dinah Shore or Dinosaur.

Well, in every issue of mental_floss magazine, Ken Jennings is asked to connect two disparate items in six steps (they call the feature "Six Degrees"). And in the current issue, the two items are… Dinah Shore and Dinosaur.

...I have a number of things on my mind that are too long to go into a Rambly Bits post. I have a follow up to yesterday's poll. I have a non-language-related poll I'm pondering. And I have a proto-menu building. So please forgive me if you find me being SpamGirl today. :-)

Consider this a warning. :-)