So, I've had both of my cataract surgeries done, and while they went well, when I went in today to finally get fitted for my reading glasses, we discovered that the secondary cataract haze is already forming on both of the new lenses in both eyes. What this means is that in about six months I'll go back in and they will see how they look and start setting up for the laser surgeries to remove them. They tell me this is a quick procedure and it is relatively common, still, it is frustrating to know that I'm not through with the eye issues yet.

My money worries may finally have reached their end as I've at long last found a tenant who has a steady income and seems to like the apartment. Once I get caught up with the back bills that 6 months of no tenant have left me with, I can start to work on renovations on my house, and hopefully get serious with finding a way to may my move to Croatia happen.

What I need to do is find a nice Croatia guy who is looking for a possible multi-continental relationship. I've discovered that my disability will remain in force even if I were to live there, but, I'll still have to come back to see my doctors. A logical way to work things would be spending 3 to 6 months in each country then switching locations and then repeating the process. I'll have to put some more thought into it of course, and then come up with the task of deciding where I'd want to be if I did it, that will be the hardest task of all I think, because I have already fallen in love with several places.

I guess that's it for now, except, for those who haven't heard, I'd be lax in my duties as owner of a Goran Visnjic website and message board if I didn't plug the news of his new film. According to Variety, Goran has joined Ewan McGregor, Melanie Laurent and Christopher Plummer in the indie drama "Beginners" for Olympus Pictures and Parts and Labor. Mike Mills ("Thumbsucker") is directing from his own script; the film concerns a son (MacGregor) dealing with the double revelation that his father (Plummer) is dying from terminal cancer and has come out of the closet. Producers are Dean Vanech, Jay Von Hoy, Lars Knudsen, Leslie Urdang and Miranda de Pencier. Production has already started in Los Angeles and according to Movieline, Goran has been cast as Andy, Mr. Plummer’s headstrong boyfriend.

Oops, I lied, I'm trying to locate some older videos...any chance one of my lurkers have a copies of any of the following Goran Visnjic film/TV projects? Thanks in advance.

Tesko je reci zbogom (1998) (TV)

Olujne tisine 1895-1995 (1997) (TV Mini-Series)

Michele va alla guerra (1994) (TV)
AKA:
Schrei nach Hilfe (Germany)

Paranoja (1993)
AKA:
Paranoia (International: English title)

006. Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. --General Omar Bradley



"Luka, we have to go!" While the gunfire outside the small African clinic made Carter jump, it seemed to have little if any affect on the tall Croat as he continued with the amputation of the leg of the small girl on the table in front of him.

"Not yet, take the others, I can finish up here. I'll follow with Chance when I'm done." Despite his efforts to conceal it, the tremble in his voice betrayed his own fears on the danger of their current situation.

"We're not leaving you." Carter stood firm even as he spotted several soldiers, with their rifles at the ready, cross the yard outside the window. "We won't have long and they'll be inside."

"I know, Carter, but, if I don't get everything closed before I move her, I risk losing her. I'm not taking that chance if I don't have to." Kovac's irritation toward the younger doctor was growing as the man persisted. Did he really think he wasn't aware of what was happening outside and the risk he was putting them all in by not stopping the surgery immediately? Hell, if Carter could get past his own fear he would see there was no choice in finishing, he reached for more gauze in an attempt to clear the field of the rapidly pooling blood.

"Luka!" Carter reached of the IV as the gunfire and yells outside signaled that they were now directly involved in the battle. "It's now or never, we take her as she is or they'll kill her and us."

"Damn." Kovac tied off his last stitch before hastily wrapping what remained of the young girl's leg. It would have to do. "All right, I've got her, give me the IV and let's go." After wiping his hands on the already bloodied towel on the cot, he scooped Chance up into his arms.

"Run!" As he hit the back-porch he heard the sound of the clinic's front door being forced open, it was all a number's game now, for all of them.

Muse: Luka Kovac
Fandom: ER
Words: 341

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Since NaNoWriMo still scares me to death. Maybe I'll try to do this before the end of November? You know, since I did so well trying to write 5,000 words last November, right? ;D

Yes, yes, leave me alone :P

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Title: A Little Normal
Author: tidbit2008
Fandom/Pairing: Bones - Booth/Brennan
Word Count: 217
Rating: PG
Summary: A walk in the park. A bit of fluff.
Spoilers: None.
Disclaimer: I own nothing but my inspiration.
Author Note: For cloudillusion.

( The autumn leaves crunch under their feet.. )

Questions: c) What do you think is the most amazing thing that anyone has ever accomplished?

As a doctor, as someone who survived a war, and as someone who has chased death more often than any one person should have to in their life, I suppose the expected response would be for me to say it is having the ability to hold someone's life or death in your hands on a daily basis. You would think I would say that, but, I can't, because for me, there is one greater accomplishment that I didn't realize the importance of until I thought it had been lost to me.

I married my first wife, Danijela, when I was 20, and she was just 18 and within a year of our beginning our life together, we welcomed our first child, a daughter, Jasna. Within three years we welcomed our second child, a son, we named Marko. I loved being a father, and though work and classes often kept me away from them more than I liked, when I was home, when I wasn't studying, I wanted nothing more than to spend my time with my wife and children.

And then they were gone.

I thought my life was over. I wanted it to be. I prayed for the next mortar that fell to strike the building I was in, for a sniper's bullet to find me as I walked the streets of Vukovar in the days and weeks after they were laid to rest, but, they never came. Even in those final days, as the City fell to the Serbs I was left to wonder why I would be one of those spared when so many close to me would perish.

Danijela and I were only married for 5 years, but, it may have well been a lifetime for the love we shared, and without her and our children, I was nothing. I was lost, I was alone, and I couldn't understand why God refused to allow me to join those I loved in death.

It took years for me to learn the reason behind his sparing me. Years that would lead me far from the memories that still sometimes visit my dreams. In time I discovered I was able to love again, and with that love I rediscovered the one thing I thought I would never know again.

Parenthood. Fatherhood. The day I looked into my baby son, Josip's face I knew there was nothing more amazing, no greater accomplishment in fact, than the ability we have to create new life and with it to become a parent. To this day, I hold my son, and he seems to have a power over me that I can't explain. It doesn't matter what my day has been like, one look at his face, seeing his smile, and everything pales in comparison.

In the beginning I was worried that Joe would be taken from me as Jasna and Marko had been, but as the years pass, those fears have faded as well. As I watch him grow from infant, to toddler, to this amazing little boy who wants to know and do everything I can't imagine not being here to share those experiences with him, and I thank God for not answering my prayers all those years ago. More then anything though, I want to teach him all of those things I wasn't able to give to the brother and sister he will never know. I want to be the father to him that I would have been to my first children had they not been taken before they had a chance to experience life as he now is.

Muse: Luka Kovac
Fandom: ER
Words: 601

Her name was Valerie, and she walked into my life at a time when it seemed like everyone else was walking out of it, or at least everyone who mattered that is. I suppose I couldn't really blame them, I'd become someone even I didn't want to be around, and as much as I wanted companionship, I was doing nothing that made anyone want to spend more than a few hours with me at most.

I met her in a bar. I was sitting at the bar alone, doing my best to drink myself into a stupor before finding my way home, a habit that was becoming far too common at the time, when she approached me. I wasn't surprised when she stopped to talk to me, women hit on me all the time, and back then I was taking advantage of it more than I want to admit. I needed to be with someone, I needed someone to hold me, to show me I could be loved again, even if it was only for an hour, and even if it was a stranger.

I guess what made her different from those that came before her, and even those that would come after, was that she was the only one I ever paid. Don't get me wrong, I didn't immediately jump at her offer, if anything my ego was a little bruised by it. Why should I have to pay a woman to spend time with me? But at that moment, in thinking about it, I knew I was alone, and I needed so very badly not to be, so, I said yes, and that night became the first of many I spent in her company before I found my way out of the darkness that I was living in.


Muse: Luka Kovac
Fandom: ER
Words: 303

Happy November! I'm still working on the Pride and Prejudice set, but in the meantime I'm brining you some lovely Zooey Deschanel. Enjoy!

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( what can you do with a sentimental heart? )

While I have yet to actually get my reading glasses (I see my doctor on the 10th for that), my eye surgeries went well and I'm seeing at a distance with no glasses. I picked up drugstore specs to tide me over and my muses are once more beginning to speak

That said, I finally feel really to start working my way back into responding to prompts with Luka and the others. I plan to also pick up those dropped rp threads, so, for those of you who have been patiently waiting, watch your mailboxes.

Thank you to everyone for your patience and understanding through all of this, I do appreciate it.

JD, voice for Luka, Daniel, and others...

Check out what passes for "talent" here in the UK on The X Factor (sort of a British version of American Idol). I present to you Irish twins John and Edward Grimes, also known as The Terrible Twins and most commonly Jedward.



You must watch this for sheer hilarity, I have never seen anything like it in my life. They can't sing, they can't dance and they can't keep time with the music OR each other. They're a walking disaster, yet they're so bad that they're actually also rather brilliant. I find myself looking forward to watching these two every week more than any other act, I just can't wait to see what the hell they'll come out with next. And the public seem to agree, despite being the most talentless of all the acts in a talent competition, these two scored the highest number of votes by a sizeable distance last weekend. They win for sheer entertainment factor, I can't help it, I actually kinda love these guys lmao!

Here are a few other Jedward "classic" performances that I highly recommend for sheer hilarity, particularly the former:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tnfs6Gs-Fxg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxyg8Lv6lN4

I should point out that this is in no way the norm for The X Factor and all the other acts this year are actually talented, albeit some more than others. John and Edward are absolutely a one off, they're TV gold! I'm quite sure Louis Walsh must have been high when he put them through to the live shows though. But I watch TV to be entertained and they damn sure entertain me, so rock on Jedward!

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