Homekeeping Questions

Two questions for the fannish homekeeper:

1) How hard is it to rip up carpeting and refinish the floor beneath? I'm not talking about a huge area (yet), but the hall to my bedroom is only about 4 x 7 feet and there'd only be one piece of furniture to move.

2) What do you do with fannish things that you don't want to toss and don't want to have lying around? While going through the library I found the print masters to three fanzines. While I probably won't ever run the zines again, I don't want to toss the masters either. Make room in the file cabinet? There are some older files that I could probably toss to make room, like the YA novel pitches that are now slightly older than their intended audience.

x-posted to homekeeping

Gallimaufry

Good golly, Sunday's supposed to be the light day on LJ. Why was it skip=80 when I checked back in this morning?

Random shoes bits of interest:

It's spoilers all around for Doctor Who, Sarah Jane, and the Torchwood magazine:
BBC article on the return of Martha and one of the classic aliens. That latter is no surprise to anyone who watches the SJA.

Torchwood TV and Freemaagyeman.com both have copies of the cover of the new Torchwood magazine, which has Jack and Martha on the cover. For those of a different fandom, the bottom banner has a picture and the headline "James Marsters Talks Singing and Slaying." The exact launch date is as yet unknown; there is a online ordering form for US subscriptions. Note that although Torchwood Magazine is going to be just like DWM with trivia, interviews, and a comic strip, they are done by different companies (Titan, not Panini Comics) and thus double subscriptions cannot be obtained. (Although I've asked Who North America, and they are planning on having US subs... although probably with a price mark up and delivery slow down vs. ordering direct from Titan.)

I read the final episode spoiler on Sarah Jane TV and am now wild with anticipation for the episode. Although, like much of the fandom, there's a certain element of "well, who didn't see THAT coming?" laced in with the "Squee! How're they gonna fix THAT?"

Fic Recs:
calapine's hilarious TW/SJA crossover, One Good Idea Torchwood Had. Torchwood gets training lessons from a more organized team. G-rated, but with language.
“Fuck this.” Owen takes off his seatbelt. “Stop the van, I’ll walk back to Cardiff. There’s no way in hell I’m being told how to do my job by a bunch of irritatingly precocious underage little shits.”

persiflage_1's going porny with her 10/Martha/Sarah Jane story Encounters.
Two days later an attractive older woman with brown hair and eyes that had seen too much turned up on Martha's doorstep.

"Hello, you must be Doctor Jones, I'm Sarah Jane Smith." She showed Martha a business card. "Jack Harkness sent me."

torn_eledhwen is writing a drabble for every episode of New Who. Season 1 is up.
Afterwards, she always thought that it was strange how the first word the Doctor ever spoke to her seemed to characterise their whole life together. Running from mannequins come to life. Running from plastic Mickey. Running from alien monsters. Running from her boring, mundane life.

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My review for Fit to Die is up on Reviewing the Evidence. This came close to being Dear Authored. (Oh, wait, it was in a couple of lines under the cut.)