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The End of Sleep

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.

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slothman
May. 13th, 2011 05:48 pm (UTC)

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...

matociquala noted today on Twitter: “If 144,000/7 billion are assumed into Heaven next Sat., that's 1 in 48,611. We won't notice.” That made me look up the local murder rate— in San Jose, it was 3 per 100,000 in 2009. So it would be noticed... as the work of a serial killer!

greygirlbeast
May. 13th, 2011 06:04 pm (UTC)

The Ebear made me laugh.
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greygirlbeast
May. 13th, 2011 06:04 pm (UTC)

I saw that. Damn straight.
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greygirlbeast
May. 13th, 2011 06:09 pm (UTC)

Have I shown you my pruning shears?
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greygirlbeast
May. 13th, 2011 06:17 pm (UTC)

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.
stsisyphus
May. 13th, 2011 07:17 pm (UTC)
About half-way through Under the Poppy here. I'd forgotten that Koja's enjoys the "love is doom" motif. Not complaining, but I really had forgotten about it.
greygirlbeast
May. 13th, 2011 09:06 pm (UTC)

I'd forgotten that Koja's enjoys the "love is doom" motif.

Not entirely sure your meaning. Elaborate?
stsisyphus
May. 13th, 2011 09:30 pm (UTC)
I'd rather not comment here as to not spoil so far, but I am basing this on very vague recollection of Skin from about seven years ago.
greygirlbeast
May. 13th, 2011 10:19 pm (UTC)

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.
ladyblue56
May. 13th, 2011 07:24 pm (UTC)
Creepy LJ banner indeed. Joy of living in Bible Belt, two churches have left material at our house this wk - 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.

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.







greygirlbeast
May. 13th, 2011 09:07 pm (UTC)

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.
ladyblue56
May. 15th, 2011 04:25 am (UTC)
Today there was another flyer on the door. We live in a large subdivision and the groups park at the end of the street and then walk door to door. Convenient for them, annoying for us. The Jehova Witness either don't come around any longer or don't come to our house b/c the last couple of times our dog lunged at the door and wouldn't stop barking. Good dog earned an extra treat those days.
eclectic_writer
May. 13th, 2011 07:27 pm (UTC)
Regarding the banner atop LJ, check out these tagged posts over on remixed about the header contest they're having. If you look at the upper top right of the page where it looks like the "page" has been folded down, it brings that up.

And I quite liked the warning label. Makes a reader more curious about the book's contents. :)
greygirlbeast
May. 13th, 2011 09:09 pm (UTC)

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.
sovay
May. 13th, 2011 08:14 pm (UTC)
Okay, what the fuck is up with the LJ banner today? Is this a reference to the Rapture flap?

You're right. That's a very weird banner. I have no idea.
greygirlbeast
May. 13th, 2011 09:10 pm (UTC)

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).
icecreamempress
May. 14th, 2011 12:42 am (UTC)
The health resources picture in Russia is also pretty dire at the moment, at least according to my friends there.
greygirlbeast
May. 14th, 2011 12:44 am (UTC)

I can only imagine.
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greygirlbeast
May. 13th, 2011 10:20 pm (UTC)

What are your thoughts on PSE?

None yet. I used it yesterday to crop two authors photos. It worked fine.
from_ashes
May. 13th, 2011 10:26 pm (UTC)
I just saw that LJ banner and I was wondering if this somehow became some religious site when I wasn't looking. Weird.
greygirlbeast
May. 14th, 2011 12:31 am (UTC)

That was sort of my reaction.

Edited at 2011-05-14 12:31 am (UTC)
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greygirlbeast
May. 14th, 2011 12:32 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.
whiskeychick
May. 14th, 2011 05:13 am (UTC)
I've had one of the worst nights/days of my life. Everyone seemed to be out of sorts today, too. I was thinking there was some kind of cosmic negative comet tail hitting everyone or some such. I'm so ready for Saturday.
whiskeychick
May. 14th, 2011 04:57 am (UTC)
I have this thing where I can jut out my lower jaw and make my right ear ring. Been that way since I left Iraq. Yeah, the VA sucks.
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