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Yes, it is time to admit it. I have not actually been posting December entries at 11:59PM each night, but have, in fact, been backdating entries posted a full 30-60 minutes later. Or in today's case, 6AM. Let's face it, there's virtually no way for me to actually manage posting coherent things by midnight, so I'm just going to post whenever I post and as long as it's before I've gone asleep for the night, I'll consider it today. (I mean, most of you not only don't care anyhow, but are also still living in yesterday, I know this. I'm just - clarifying the rules here.)

I have no actual proof of this since I don't have a TARDIS, but I'm pretty convinced I helped prevent the Great Fire of Tel Aviv 2014. Two friends and I were walking around Kerem Hateymanim - a low housed, very crowded old neighborhood - at night when we noticed a junk mattress standing against two trash cans on the side of the street, a small flame licking outside its top right corner. The mattress was standing just below both a tree and an electricity pole.

The flame was small enough that we thought we might be able to put it out with water. While one friend went to fetch a hose/bucket from her nearby apartment, I called the fire department, and my other friend pushed over the mattress so that it lay in the middle of the (pedestrian) street instead of standing up. By then, the fire was large enough that there was no way for us to put it out and we didn't want to breathe in any toxins so we stayed a few meters away. The fire spread so quickly, it was mesmerizing, and grew maybe 2-3 meters tall - definitely high enough that had the mattress still been standing, the tree would have caught fire for sure, and who knows what else; the tree was also hanging over a roof. There wasn't much left by the time the fire truck showed up - just a few lingering low flamed which they put out by spraying a shit ton of water, all over the mattress remains, the trash cans, the tree just in case. The whole thing just happened so fast. We don't know what caused the fire but probably just someone carelessly tossing a cigarette butt in the general trash area because people are idiots. In any case, disaster averted! I was pleased.

Meanwhile, marina and I went to a Friday afternoon performance arts-themed pub quiz today. It was incredibly fun - I had so much fun going to pub quiz nights in NYC last year and searched and searched and searched for local equivalents, and finally there is one! There was a film round, theater round, musicals, music, Disney, red carpet... basically right up our alley, and we did excellently for a team of two if I may say so myself (I may), though we arrived 4th out of five. Our team name was The Mighty Ducks (though, retroactively, would have been better as The Mumpy Ducks), though actually actually would have been far better as something entirely different. Anyone have good ideas for team names? I have absolutely no problem stealing if it means getting a cool name.

Finally, went to my folks for dinner, watched TV and cuddled with the dog who was basking in weekend attention and entirely too cute not to take a million photos of, oh my god look at her: ( Read more... )

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Day 5 rec, because bar quiz:
Rattle The One Whose Shadow You're Standing In by jezziejay (Hockey RPF, Mature, 4700 words, Kane/Toews, fake dating)
Summary: Jonny EMTs, captains a bar quiz team, and pines for NICU nurse Kaner.

This is both a bar quiz AU and a fake dating AU and I cannot with how cute it is. jezziejay writes the most hilarious romcom-style fics, and this one has Jonny agreeing to play Kaner's boyfriend to make Kaner's crush, Doctor Do Me, notice him. Just fluffy, happymaking, and really fucking funny, with great banter and great mocking and great team.

Note: it's posted in a collection of stories, so "Chapter 1" is actually the entirety of the fic and completely standalone.