*tries to absorb all the good health in the city*

I will not get sick days before I'm stuck on a cross country plane flight to a town I know nothing about. I will not. Even though people keep hacking up germ laden lungs all over the place. I won't.

*briefly considers taping hepa filters to my face* Seriously folks, I've already had TWO colds this winter. That is my quota.

The cafeteria had no eggs today because they apparently did a piss poor ordering job since they're doing their "Mardi Gras" day tomorrow. Which means my lunch was very very very small. I have soup to wolf down during lab meeting so I don't screw up my experiment (more than I already have), but yeah, not adding to the whole "healthy" vibe here. I also confused orange blossom white tea for apple blossom white tea....and really, I'm not a huge fan of the taste of orange. Just, not. Oh well, for 17 bucks, I'm out of luck (yes, I'm a tea snob).

I did sleep, without therapy level disturbing dreams. And it wasn't hot in my apartment last night thanks to the 20+mile an hour west wind...which is good because the fan I keep by my open window died a sad death on saturday (I had no involvement, the motor burned out. Old age this time, not fan-icide). Of course, I have to manage to get rid of this fan before I have space for a new one....which is easier said than done since the building management doesn't allow us to put "large" objects in our trash room anymore. And send out letters looking for rats when someone does. And getting a new fan is probably unwise anyway until I know what will happen post May with my living situation. Sigh.

SPN fic rec (and a peace offering of sorts)

This serves as way of an apology for those afflicted by my previous rant....You will be glad to know ranting about it got it out of my system, I only hope your retinas aren't burned too badly as a result.

Anyways, on with the reccing!! (albeit with one caveat: techinically this is a WIP, though the individual chapters/sections stand well alone)

Everyonce in a while in fanfic, we come across THE story. You know the one. The one that you wish was a tv show itself because it's just that good. The characters are true to what they were in the show, but with growth, there's original characters that we fall in love with, and the plot speaks to us. Sometimes, we're lucky if we find one per several fandoms. Other times, our fandom is blessed with a surfeit of talent and we see several over many years.

Today, I managed to stumble upon one such fic. Even better (for me), it's a crossover fic -- Supernatural/Dark Angel (though your Dark Angel knowledge is not all that necessary to the reading -- you only get more colors and shadows if you know it.)

ladyjanelly is writing this Supernatural/Dark Angel crossover and it starts with Today's Tom Sawyer. It diverges from SPN around Devil's Trap and has Sam on the road alone when he runs across a young Ben (Dark Angel). Ladyjanelly's Sam is dead on perfect -- a little more cynical and hardened than our Sam, but he still has to help, even when he figures out that helping might mean trouble.

My Dark Angel memory is a little...okay, a lot fuzzy, so I won't comment so much on Ben other than to say that I fell in love with him from almost the first. he's real to Sam and Sam wants to protect him and that's all that matters.

Go and read...if you hate WIP, just read the first two "chapters", which stand alone well and are a complete story in and of themselves.