Okay, what the fuck is up with the LJ banner today? Is this a reference to the Rapture flap?
No sleep until after six ayem, so fuck you, Mr. Insomnia. I was in bed at 2 a.m., to no avail, and this is what I get for trying to sleep without pharmaceutical backup.
Yesterday's first day of quasi-vacation bore no resemblance at all to an actual day of quasi-vacation. Which is to say work stuff kept me at the desk most of the day. Oh, and I installed Adobe Photoshop Elements on my iMac. Adobe Photoshop Elements has to have the most idiotic installation disk ever.
It's almost warm out there today.
Still no word from my agent. I think the "warning label" might be at the root of the quiet.
Last night we saw David O. Russell's very impressive The Fighter. And read Under the Poppy. And played Rift. And why the fuck is my left ear ringing?
And there was The Dream this morning, and that's enough for now.
No sleep until after six ayem, so fuck you, Mr. Insomnia. I was in bed at 2 a.m., to no avail, and this is what I get for trying to sleep without pharmaceutical backup.
Yesterday's first day of quasi-vacation bore no resemblance at all to an actual day of quasi-vacation. Which is to say work stuff kept me at the desk most of the day. Oh, and I installed Adobe Photoshop Elements on my iMac. Adobe Photoshop Elements has to have the most idiotic installation disk ever.
It's almost warm out there today.
Still no word from my agent. I think the "warning label" might be at the root of the quiet.
Last night we saw David O. Russell's very impressive The Fighter. And read Under the Poppy. And played Rift. And why the fuck is my left ear ringing?
And there was The Dream this morning, and that's enough for now.
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Either the perspective on that banner is very peculiar, or the hands depicted are not shaped like human hands. Perhaps they’re long-fingered grey aliens...
The Ebear made me laugh.
I saw that. Damn straight.
Have I shown you my pruning shears?
is Blood Oranges a young-adult novel?
We're still trying to figure that out.
It was so weird. In the dream I was living in the same apartment complex as you and Spooky. It was a real cheapy, one-step-up-from-a-no-tell-motel kind of joint. (And for some reason you were storing your journal and stash of paperbacks in the laundry room.) You never appeared in the dream - just your omnipresent penumbra of vengeful evil ...
Stay out of my unrealized realities.
I'd forgotten that Koja's enjoys the "love is doom" motif.
Not entirely sure your meaning. Elaborate?
I just don't know whats the phrase "love is id doom" motif means, precisely.
Except...thinking about it now...it actually is...
Though I'd go farther. Self awareness is doom.
Oddly, paranormal romance has been my comfort read post tornadoes so the idea of 'Blood Oranges' has really piqued my interest. The library has the new Sookie Stackhouse book by Charlaine Harris on hold. I have two more Aunt Beast books in my to-read stack, 'Murder of Angels' and 'The Red Tree.' I finished reading 'Daughter of Hounds' the day before the tornadoes.
I have started reading 'Under the Poppy' and, since I always read in more than one book at a time, I'm alternating it w/ a para/rom story collection, 'Many Blood Returns.' Storms in our area again today so there's some anxiety floating around and it's a para/rom and magazine kind of day.
I put a Do Not Disturb sign on the door, same as I do during election time, and another church left material on the storm door.
Creepy.
And I quite liked the warning label. Makes a reader more curious about the book's contents. :)
Yeah, because health and healing involving yellow-white light emanating from creepy hands.
And I quite liked the warning label. Makes a reader more curious about the book's contents. :)
It's likely my editor won't see it that way.
You're right. That's a very weird banner. I have no idea.
You're right. That's a very weird banner. I have no idea.
See the above post.
Frankly, I think a banner referring to the absence of health and healing in the country would have been more appropriate (though I know LJ is international).
I can only imagine.
What are your thoughts on PSE?
None yet. I used it yesterday to crop two authors photos. It worked fine.
That was sort of my reaction.
Edited at 2011-05-14 12:31 am (UTC)
except that Mr. Insomnia and Mr. Worry were sitting on my chest, playing cards, getting drunk on supermarket vodka, and writing bad poetry.
Wonderful imagery.