And someday when I take to the floor, the world's gonna wake up and see!

So oh man! I just remembered there was this adorable moment with the waitress when we hit up Applebee's after the zoo on Sunday!

You see, we had a party of six-- three couples, Bret and Dustin, Danny and myself, and Christian and Alicia-- anyway, Alicia, Bret and I were all wooed by the 'infinite soup and salad' deal, Bret because he is a vegetarian, me because HOLY CRAP TOMATO BASIL SOUP, and Alicia because she is fiscally wise. On the second round, the waitress showed up to find out what everybody was reordering:

Bret: Uh, I will try the tomato basil soup again, but with the house salad. Er, what're the dressings on those?
Waitress: Well! There's ranch, and blue cheese, and I-talian, and vinaigrette--
(I freeze up, thinking OHMYGOSHTOOCUTE, then catch Danny to my left stifling a giggle, and glance at Christian, who is grinning ear to ear. The order progresses, and after the waitress leaves I can't hold back anymore:)
Dev: I-talian!
Christian: I can't believe she actually said that! *laughing*
Danny: That was real? I thought I just imagined it!
Dev: I'm totally tipping her more for being cute.
Christian: At least she didn't make a joke about Angry Birds.

As for D&D summary, I wrote about half of it up and then got totally sidetracked with this work thing I have to do.

Exciting news: I received an invitation to work with an artist in Austria on a short comic project! I'm really looking forward to it! This came on the tail of an agreement with Danny to write a script treatment of the Gwenn-centric D&D game together and switch off illustrating it, so I'm mired happily in comic work at the moment; that, and editing already finished projects and sending them out. In the process of all that, I'm also picking up revisions of Berimbau's Letters, especially since it turns out certain personages on my friendlist are apparently running copy-editing businesses and, well, what better motivation to work on one's novel than a potential editor?

As for fandom, I still want to finish all of the fills I started for both T&B and Dragon Age (the Dragon Age ones have certainly been sitting long enough, eesh); but in the interest of ever getting other work done, I'm trying to cut back on that. No new fills (except those that I've been working on anyway) and only finishing one fill at a time, instead of expending all of my creative energy on fanfiction.

I'm fairly certain nobody much cares what I'm doing with regards to my fanfiction, but I sort of feel like I'll be more accountable to these rules if I note them here.

Also, I've been turning this over in my head for ages, but reviews of the Hairspray musical and subsequent musical-movie mentioned expressly that they thought that I Know Where I've Been was 'melodramatic' and that there were criticisms about the song being preachy and going over the same old stuff we've heard before, blah blah, and that Tracy, not Maybelle, should be singing the big number in the eleventh hour if anyone.

I basically love the number; sure, it's a bit melodramatic, but was anyone paying attention to the rest of Hairspray? Melodrama's sort of the name of the game here. And really, what right have the probably white critics to decide when we've heard enough about how hard a struggle it's been (and still is!) for black equality? Exactly none, says I!

And as for whether Tracy or Maybelle should sing it-- I really liked the sentiment of the makers of the musical, who stood by the number saying that it seemed to them that it's not diminishing to Tracy at all to let the characters whose cause she's championing actually be the ones speaking for themselves. Rock, rock on, you guys!

Also also also, since I'm doing comic stuff, I picked up the paneling I'd done for that short story about Leonard and Ibtesam in Aztec ruins somewhere in Peru, so I might even finish that while doing all this other stuff!