Can you tell on I'm on vacation this week?

[rabidsamfan]

Between spurts of housecleaning I've been trying to get myself to work on "The Errand Lad" and to prime the pump I've been reading and reviewing at the MEFAs, but it's a frustrating slog. I've pretty much worked through all of the stories which had no final reviews that I have the background to read, (someday I'll read the Silmarillion, but this is not that day) and now I'm skimming through drabbles and vignettes a lot, but I've just barely managed to read and review a tenth of the stories that got nominated.

Sometimes I look for authors I haven't reviewed yet, sometimes I wallow in old favorites (which are quick to compose reviews, for, I grant you!) Sometimes I search for "Sam" in the descriptions, although that gets me "same" too. *sigh* I never thought I'd suffer from a surfeit of Cormallen stories! But I keep coming back to it, although I should be getting for my sister's visit. I'm too lazy to cut and paste and count characters before I hit the "final" button and keep discovering that I shorted someone a point by fewer than ten characters, and I'm just hoping no one thinks it was deliberate.

I've discovered some lovely stuff, though. A story by Karri where Sam asks Legolas about Elven magic, drabbles that bring characters I hadn't considered to life, angles on Arwen that shed new light...

*sigh*

Oh, well... Just had a plotbunny bite for "The Errand Lad..." Got to go now...