One of these days, I will somehow manage to find the time to post the deep, introspective types of things I want to clutter my LJ and your FriendsLists with, but for now? I have to express somehow that I love the following quote way, way too much:

"Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.--Ludwig van Beethoven ( Read more... )

There are a lot of things I'd like to put in this space, because I haven't been able to update much lately, but I'm only here to say one thing, and that is quote a fantastic line from an email from my boss:

"I just was curious how to track, and register people for their privates."

That is all. MAGIC.

I miss you, FriendsList.

Omgrraarrgh.

I just cannot stay awake this morning; it's terrible. It's going to be an uphill battle all day until 12:30, I can feel it and it makes me just want to stab something. Help?

Song stuck in my head this morning: Killer Queen by Queen. At least this is awesome.

Okay. Hold up.

So, today is apparently Saxaphone Day, most likely because the inventor of the saxophone Adolphe Sax was born today in 1814.

HOWEVER...

John Philip Sousa was also born today in 1854. Now, Sousa was known for a lot of other things that gain notoriety, but why the heck is it not also Sousaphone Day? Huh? HuhConsider this one pouty ( Read more... )

So...I met my light goal for yesterday, but didn't get to post anything due to a horribly fail lasagne incident of epic proportions, and I probably won't get a chance to post anything today, either, since I work all day and by the time I get home, I'll be going to be bed because I've got to get up again at three in the morning to do it all over. ( Read more... )

I have a question for anyone out there who might want to share their thoughts on the matter, because I'm currently struggling with the idea of a POV-shift (and, therefor, as I religiously have written since the dawn of time, a new chapter). But I don't know how much meat that shift'll give me, so I want thoughts and opinions ( Read more... )

1. I love the smell of a freshly sharpened Dixon Ticonderoga in the morning.

2. I'm soliciting for support toward Brian for joining me in the NaNo effort. Not only do I think his writing every day would be good for my motivation, it would just be really interesting to see a (generally) non-writer tackle a writing project. Also, his idea is ( Read more... )

1. Hey! It's Hermit Day! Let's have a party!

2. (Since I can't seem to stop annoying babble about what I'm writing lately, but it's all that keeps my brain going at Teh Job) Yesterday was gorgeous, mid-fifties, sunny, and I took about an hour and a half walk around the Commons and the adjacent park, thinking about Current Book and the direction it ( Read more... )

I've come to realize that this Current Book has a lot of things I personally don't really like or write very often: a lot of dialogue, most of it expositionary, and children as characters being almost precocious.

True, these precocious twins are the split soul of a goddess bent on destroying the other gods and possibly the world if she wants, but ( Read more... )

Example #4,582 of Skylie is a NEEERD, from the rough draft of the book I'm working on:

""There are probably many who are far better suited to tell you these things, Gainswellow," admitted Annamaria, turning to the woman with a frown. "I am truly that someone more capable is not available to assist you, and you have my humble apologies for my ( Read more... )