Dec
5

Socialize What?

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A couple of years ago when I first started the whole writing gig, I got sucked into the social networking game. It was the big thing – start the platform before you have the product so that people would know who I was. I’ll leave the analysis of whether that’s a good or a bad thing up to other people. Short story is, for all that I’m somewhat of a introvert in real life, I actually do enjoy the social aspects of blogging and tweeting and all the rest of it. (Maybe it’s that whole I was a middle-school geek vibe – behind the electronic curtain, I’m still a bit of a mess, but no one can really see that from where I’m standing. I can be as bold or ridiculous as I like. ) But still. When I first put my toe in the Twitter pool, it was more… Read more
Dec
2

Friday Afternoon WTFkry

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Ladies and gents…I present to you: the Banana Candle. Which sounds like it should be a euphemism for something, but alas…it is not. As per When Used Books Attack: Banana Edition, (quoted below) this glorious recipe can be found in “Bo Bold With Bananas.” And I’m all for getting bold with my food, but this seems to be moving into full on fruit peen-landia. (With a cherry on top, no less! See what I did there? Huh? Huh? Phallic innuendo, FTW) Which is okay. But that’s mayo on that there peely-o-peen. (I mean, icing? Sure, I could sorta see that. Might be fun. But mayo? Ick.) This monstrosity is called a Banana Candle, which consists of a banana stuck in a pineapple slice, with mayonnaise and a maraschino cherry on top. And it is a crime against nature. If someone brought this into my home, I would slap them, and… Read more
Dec
1

Word-Whore Thursday

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I’m over at Word Whores today talking a bit about daydreams (And I dug into my muppet nerdom past to pull out a little Rainbow Connection video too, because I dig Kermit.) Otherwise…I’m on the downhill side of the draft for A Trace of Moonlight (and should be done within the next week or so. And then I’ll be madly revising for a few weeks, but it’s all good.). I am giving myself a little early present this Sunday though – my stress levels have been extra high for the last few weeks (to the point where I actually almost bought a ticket to London…just because I’d never been there and thought it might a great place to crash for a few days. It’s probably best that I don’t make snap purchases in that frame of mind, so I talked myself out of it because, hey, real life…but still. Maybe… Read more
Nov
30

Crazy Cat Lady of Email

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So apparently I have email issues.  Or specifically email *hoarding* issues. And I don’t mean a little bit. I mean, I took an hour to clean my inbox last night…because I was looking for some interview questions I owe some people. After that hour? I still had 40k messages in my inbox. Of which 11k were unread. (That was down from 18k unread, btw. And probably about 60k in the inbox.) And that doesn’t even count the ones actually filtered into specific folders. All those mailing lists and such .(Although I took a large step over the summer and switched to digest for most of them, so at least that little bit has cut down.) The rest of it? Eh – a fair amount of spam that I guess I just never got around to deleting, but it’s more than that. There’s all the stupid stuff like ads from places… Read more
Nov
29

Midnight WTFkry: I Hate My Job

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I cannot look away. Or stop hitting the replay button. Also? Dudes have AWESOME legs. 😀… Read more