Allow me this moment of fan-girl bliss.

Eeeee! ZOMG!! TheyHaveTrailersAndTeasersAndStills, Oh, my!
http://www.makinggameofthrones.com/

... pity I'll have to wait for the DVD to come out... *sigh*

Last night, I was looking for a copy of this month's book club book at the (crappy) used book store chain, Bookman's. I was also looking for a copy of the "Chicano!" textbook they use for those crappy ethnic study courses (the books that allegedly teach kids how to protest). Anyway, I happened to walk by a shelf in the history section and I saw a ( Read more... )

I ran out of work yesterday... which was a pretty crap day since I didn't even go to work yesterday. I was up most of the night battling lunar abdominal pain. I slept from 1am to 4am. Then, Jordan hit me in his sleep and woke me up (not really his fault, since I was kinda in the middle of the bed. I usually don't sleep facing him for this reason). ( Read more... )

This last week has flown by mostly because work went quickly. And work passed quickly because of the mountain of it I have on my desk. We have two HUGE projects, a stretch of I-10 and an intersection design we picked up from another engineering company who had to close its doors. They're both super time sensitive so there's plenty of work and it's ( Read more... )

Been about a week since I actually updated about life-type things. I guess I should fill in the gaps. I'll do it in Bits a la several entries ( Read more... )

I can't believe how far I've fallen behind on these journal entries. *le sigh ( Read more... )

The last one I did was one about the top 106 least checked out books in this LJ entry of mineI had to add my step 5 in there this time around. There were just too many I started to read but never finished... You can remove it if you'd like ( Read more... )

Our company had their first annual ESOP meeting this Friday. It was nice. I got to sleep in. As a bonus, I also got paid to sit in a 4 hour meeting (luncheon included). I was really impressed that the board of directors chose to be in "the hot seat" for a Q&A session. I was also relieved when one of the anon questions that was asked got a ( Read more... )

I finally got off my booty and uploaded my the photos that I took at the August 18th book signing for Twilight... I forgot my digicam, so these are from an old disposable I keep in my car "just in case".


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Ever tossed around the thought to write a novel? Kept putting it off and putting it off? Well, now is the time-- it's your chance to write a novel in a month ( Read more... )