Pico, Day 28

[elmey.livejournal.com]

Here's today's post for your snippets, comments, thoughts.

Comments

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Drabbit drabbit, I got muddled and thought I had more time to do the challenge story... until I saw a post saying "it's due!" So I have been scribbling madly, got 1000 odd words done and will hopefully get it finished tomorrow... well, I have to! Luckily, when really pushed I found I could TOO write something on the diplomatic chocolate idea... it won't be great but it will be something.

You would think - and Daniel has not only thought but mentioned it at length, and more than once - that in their secret billion dollar budge, the SGC would find the wherewithal needed to hire one or two professionals.

But you would be wrong, and for years he, and Stan Kovacek (a military attorney, wasn't that close enough?) and the two or three anthropologists who could be trusted offworld were it. For the entire planet. After all, what does a Highly Classified Secret Military Operation normally need with an official diplomatic core anyway? As Jack O'Neill says way too often and with way too self-satisfied a smirk, they can get by with charm, coffee, chocolate... oh, and C-4.

Or not.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

It is a funny solution!

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

The story is not at all serious :)

[saki101.livejournal.com]

Oh, the power of the deadline, especially the surprisingly near deadline!

Pleased to hear that chocolate diplomacy is a go. (There's never enough budget for personnel. *grumble, grumble*)

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Yep, I manged to finish it today :) I don't say it's brilliant, but it's done.

[saki101.livejournal.com]

Confetti, champagne!! That's fabulous.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on managing the unexpected deadline. Sometimes it's amazing what last-minute panic can achieve ;-)

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

... Besides a minor heart attack, of course {g}

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Kudos on 1000 words & diplomatic chocolate! Deadlines clearly work for you, or at least the swishing sound of their close approach :)

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

They do mean I have to come up with something... I don't put my hand up often for challenges, because I couldn't bear to fail the people I'd promised...

[elmey.livejournal.com]

What a scary thought, an unexpected deadline! Chocolate seems to fit perfectly into your mix, I'm sure it'll be a fun story.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Yes, I admit to squeaking rather loudly when I read that I needed to finish what I hadn't even started... right away!

Chocolate does make most things better, though...

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Great snark there.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Most of My Heroes do it...