this is not in my top five memetastic entries

1: Name your ten favourite titles from stories you've written (or, if you're not a writer, just name your ten favourite titles).

Bloodletting
Elias Budd's Charming Widow
How Many Ways
Meanwhile, in an Alternate Dimension
Milk and Ash
The Outline of a Circle
Sandwich as Aphrodisiac
Tenderfoot
Tourniquet
Your Hands, Clasped

Conclusion: I actually don't like that many of my titles. Hmm.

2: If you happen to be working on some creative writing project, fanfiction or NaNoWriMo or what have you, post exactly one sentence/paragraph/whatever from each of your current work(s) in progress in your journal. It should probably be your favorite or most intriguing sentence so far, but what you choose is entirely your discretion. Mention the title (and genre) if you like, but don't mention anything else -- this is merely to whet the general appetite for your forthcoming work(s).

Here's the thing: while I have several things I plan on working on soon (the rest of the ficlets I promised, incest fic for anna), I actually have nothing in progress right now. Therefore, I am going to cheat a little and use a paragraph from the last comment porn tig I was doing with lalejandra:

Ray taps a beat on the steering wheel and says, "You ever watch that TV in the mornings? I woke up at like ten a.m., the kids down the hall are out of school for the summer and blaring this rap music at top volume -- and you know I am a cool guy, but I am trying to sleep, I am wiped out, so I go down the hall and knock and I do the whole stupid thing, you know, Chicago P.D., stake-outs, keep it down, I even stole your thank you kindly, and it's these little tiny girls, junior high age, and they're both scared out of their wits, right, and they're apologizing and apologizing and then the short one gives me a plate of cookies to make up for it. Anyway, then I try to get back to sleep, but it's too late, I can't get back there, so I end up lying on my couch watching the Price is Right."

in which i make up complicated terms

From yesterday's TV and movie viewing, I have also decided that the Essential Crucial Distilled Dialogue for SGA is contained in the following three sentences:

1. "Don't touch anything."
2. "I didn't touch anything!"
3. "Oops. I touched something."

For Wilby Wonderful, on the other hand, the Essential Crucial Distilled Dialogue is, I think, the question "What do you mean?"

I'm not certain what the Essential Crucial Distilled Dialogue for due South is, though. This might need further reflection.

because we're crazy and stuff

I am busy trying to write fic for lalejandra which I know for a fact that nobody in the world but her and me will be remotely interested in, but I never mind distractions while I'm writing, so:

Ask me for "top five" lists of pretty much anything, and I will list you my top five of that thing or things.

Hit me. I reserve the right to not answer, naturally.