Success!

Huzzah! Chapter 2 of my thesis is done and e-mailed off. I now have 26 pages all together, which is just about half the minimum page count. (Of course, given how this chapter ballooned on me, I have a feeling I'll be bumping up against a hundred pages before it's all over...) I'm not as thrilled with this chapter as I would like to be, but I think there's good stuff buried under all the confusion. I hope, anyway. We'll see what happens.

Tomorrow I get 44 papers to grade. Joy. I've had a few more students come by to see me in office hours, though (seriously, I think I hold the English department record for most non-mandatory office hours visits--woo!), and for the most part they seem to be getting it. My philosophy for this paper, since I'm having it count for less of a percentage of their final grade, is to grade a bit harder than I might ordinarily, so that everyone realizes expectations are higher in college without it hurting their final grade overmuch. Even so, I might still be giving out more than a few As.

Fic: "Biological Inefficiencies" [B5, Ivanova/Garibaldi, G'Kar]

I have no explanation for this. There is no one I can blame it on. My brain simply decided G'Kar + babysitting = awesome, and I had to write it or go crazy. And then, obviously, inflict it on you all.

I think I'll ascribe it to my thesis making me crazy.

I promise, one day I will write the slew of fics that bridge the end of "Little Dreams" with these vignettes I keep getting hit with. It will probably be after graduation.

Title: Biological Inefficiencies
Author: icepixie
Series: Closet Idealism 'verse. Since I am apparently incapable of writing anything else non-academic right now.
Timeline: Roughly a year and a half before "Language Lessons." Actually, you know, I might as well start putting dates on these things, since I made a timeline for this AU and currently have no fewer than eight unfinished fics set at various points along said timeline littering my hard drive; God knows what order they'll all be written in. Let's say near the end of 2265.
Summary: "All of your biological inefficiencies are made up for by the fact that your friends can babysit this early in the child's life." Ivanova/Garibaldi, G'Kar.
Wordcount: 672

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