in other news, I found my missing USB drive, and now that I have the chapter back the Ridiculous WIP is chugging along again! Serves me right for being to discouraged to try rewriting it from where my backup left off. This is now officially the second longest thing I have ever written, and I've gotten to the point where the intrigue plot stars coming to the fore. (In chapter 8. The intrigue plot starts appearing in chapter 8. I am so good at this. If anybody was considering writing a novel-length WIP on a premise that they dislike about a pairing they don't particularly ship with no particular idea what happens next, I recommend it, it's wonderfully freeing.)

(Every other time I've done this I've ended up falling in love with it too hard and blocking myself trying to be perfect, but the politics AU seems to be immune from that so far. #$@^% politics.)

(Also found the glasses. They were out in the yard, having been snowed and rained on, and missing their nosepieces, but otherwise ok. I have been wearing them without and I think they're actually more comfortable this way. All things come to those who are too lazy to seek a replacement?)