Cassie Claire has posted an excerpt from Sauron's Very Secret Diary. Hopefully she'll post the full diary soon; the excerpt's been up for a couple of days now.
Oh, and for those of you who haven't read the diaries yet (you know who you are), you can read them here. What are you waiting for? Go read!
The diaries have so taken over Cassie's livejournal that she started another livejournal just for her Draco trilogy (Harry Potter fanfiction). It's positively pervy, woohoo! Waiting impatiently for the next chapter of Draco Veritas.
Had some weird dreams this morning. I don't quite remember them, but they left me feeling like Gollum: a sad, decrepit little creature meant to be pitied. The dreams left me weary and cranky; how could I possibly face the world? But eventually I had to get up. Chose to wore an oversized sweater that's really comfy. I will probably be far too hot in it later because it's always warm at gaming, but I'll deal.
Neglected to look out window when I got up, so I didn't see that it had snowed and I needed to clear off my car. Yes, snow, on the first full day of spring. With the snow and oversleeping, I ended up late to work. Again. Was definitely not in a good mood.
I expected I'd spend most of the day having a pity party for myself. Then I went downstairs to get a bagel, where I had a conversation with the cafe owner. She told me a friend of the family just found out that his seven-year-old son may have Lou Gehrig's disease and may have only five years to live.
Wow.
Suddenly things don't seem so bad. Yeah, I'm constantly late to work and the Earl Collective still keeps whispering vile nothings in my ear, but I'm healthy, I have awesome friends, and I'm self-supporting. And it's gaming night! Life's not so bad after all.
Give it a good twist
I got to screw things today! I like screwing! Screwing is fun!
We had a sick printer here than needed a new fuser. To get the fuser out of the printer, you need to unscrew three screws. So I got to use both a flathead and a Phillips screwdriver, whee!
I love using tools. I was on stage crew one year in high school and helped build the sets for the big school musical. Not only did I use screwdrivers and hammers, but I got to use a jigsaw and circular saw as well. Power tools!
The first gift my dad gave me after I moved out of the house was a toolkit. He also gave me his old drill and some drill bits. I've added to my bit collection since then. I miss watching This Old House and New Yankee Workshop (Norm rules!). Can't wait to get a place with a garage or a basement so I can build this awesome drop-leaf desk I fell in love with on Norm's show.
I am exhausted. Would like nothing better than to curl up and go to sleep, but I have choir practice tonight and I can't skip it because it's the last practice before Holy Week and thus is very important.
And I have a huge hankering to do chocolate, but I can't find the candy cookbook that has the recipe for Kahlua Truffles, which is what I really want to make.
I had two hundred and sixty-seven dollars of repairs done to my car, and it still ain't running right.
And my cat has been wound up all week and keeps biting me.
I hope to never see another Girl Scout cookie as long as I live.
Well, at least not for a week...
Biohazard?
My friend Karen at work has informed me that I have achieved luminescence.
Must be all those cookies I've been eating.
To boldly buy!
Saw recently on WWDN that the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation is soon being released on DVD. WHEE! Only one problem: it's damned expensive. We're talking over 100 smackeroos. YIKES! Compare that to second season Buffy, which is less than $50. Now, I liked ST:TNG, but do I really want to pay $100 to own the first season? I'm not sure.
I really hope they don't go this route with Babylon 5. I fear they might, though, since the DVD of In the Beginning/The Gathering was of such poor quality. Blah.
Cons, cons, and more cons
Have agreed to go to GenCon with TsuKata and Roger, but only because the ASOIAF CCG is being premeired there. (Just kidding! You know I love spending time with you two).
This is only one of the many conventions I'm interested in this year. GenCon's August 8th to 11th; there's also WorldCon which I have been dying to go to for several years now, but that's August 29 through September 2, so I'll probably have to skip it. Rats. TsuKata and Roger are trying to get me to go to Origins, but that conflicts with EnderCon, which I was kinda interested in attending. And right after EnderCon is Uncle Orson's Writing Class and Literary Boot Camp, which has this wannabe writer drooling (only thing that tops it is Clarion). And I've just found out that Star Wars Celebration is the same weekend as the Indianopolis Mini-Marathon, for which I have already registered (eek! I need to start training!).
So many cons, so little time and money. It's almost amusing, though, since just a year and a half ago I was complaining that I didn't get to go anywhere. Now I have the chance to go many places, and I can't do them all! Drat.
I am in awe of this thread over at Hatrack River. Anyone who knows that much (or even pretends to know that much!) has to be cool.
Am a chump. Big-time.
Back before the shadow fell on my blog, I promised you an entry on various topics. I still haven't gotten around to writing that entry, which saddens me because it would have been a good one.
Maybe I'll still write it. Better late than never, right?
Sometimes I get frustrated with myself. I have all these plans to write something awesome, but something happens. I put it off and put it off and it never happens. Which totally sucks because I want to be a writer, but you can't be a writer if you don't write.
I have some free time this evening. Maybe I'll go to the library and do writerly things. I fear I may be distracted yet again if I go home first.
Just can't get enough
xnera walks through the office. "Mmm.. tagalongs!"
