Amaretto Sour

I'm so glad I broke down and bought my coat. It was a splurge, but it's a good one. Now the bitch just needs to get here.

This woman on the bus had her music up so load I could not only hear it, I could understand the lyrics and damn near sing a long. *shakes head*


Dear Embracers,

Stop scaring the author.

Hiding in the corner,
Amaretto ^_~


Ugh. It's not that I hate my job. I don't. But I would much rather be writing and cleaning house. Does that make sense?

Need to start searching for a new pic for my LJ layout. I love my Saiyuki image muchly, but it's almost time to switch to a winter theme.


EEEE! Lincoln from Prison Break is on Q102! And Whee! It's back on tonight!! *gleeeee*

Until I get some writing done. Must. Write. SMP. story. Sheesh I've never been this bad about it. Don't even have anything typed...but I'll have something to mail out Monday if I have to forego sleep. There is no excuse for this kind of slacking.

Also working on something I shouldn't be working on. And I'm not telling or posting until it's done, because I tend to slack off after posting well-recieved snippets. Mwahahahaha.

Quick book rec:

Geisha, A Life by Mineko Iwasaki. I liked Memoirs of a Geisha, I like this one more (even though a lot of the publishers seem to think A Life is stiff and mechanical). She has a pretty way of writing (at least in English; I don't know if it's a translation or whatnot); it's very Japanese (obviously), I think that's what throws the white folk off. Anyway, cool book.

Okay, enough rambling. I am hereby exiled from the internet until I accomplish something.

Nick is such the angsty bunny bitch of the show. I want to pet him and hook him up with Warrick because the whole marriage thing is REALLY FUCKING LAME. Poor Kat, those two always did have pretty tension (<--pretend that makes sense).

Work has gone to shit.( I hate the upper echelons of business )

In other news, am rereading The Blue Sword. I don't even remember anymore which of the two is my fav. It's so rare to find books where the chicks are so fracking cool and the romance is cool without turning her into some simpering little homemaker puddle. I'm all about the tough chicks (gee, who would have guessed?). Nausicaa, Harry and Aerin are so entirely my girl crushes.

Christ, go to bed Megan.

Wrote four pages of Sworn Duty. They're CRAP. Wrote some of Flower Boys. UTTER CRAP. And there are problems I didn't see before with Rose/Fox and Doug's story that I didn't see before.

>_<

Whatever. I'll figure them out.

In the meantime, love that Shoujo Beat is translating God Child. One of my favorite series ever (which is weird, because it's hardcore kaori yuki angst at it's best) and next chapter Jezebel finally appears. I don't care how fucked up or evil or pyscho that man is, he's dead sexy and so heartbreakingly tragic. And Cassion ;_; They need to hurry the fuck up and get to books 5-8. Dr. Jezebel is mad omfguh in Megan-land, yes indeed (this icon really doesn't do him justice. I'd scan the manga I've got if anyone but me cared. So pretty *_*)

Yes, I'm done now.

Ack. Way way behind on LJ. If there's a post you need/want me to see, drop me a link b/c I've got so many to catch up on it's a good bet I'll miss something.

So. Eyes were examined to today. My prescription of course changed, but otherwise my eyes are in perfect health! And my new glasses only cost $170.00 with EyeMed (they would have cost almost $500.00 w/out). They're reall cool! Small, and this weird geometric shape. Not something I would have thought to try myself, so I'm glad we had someone helping us. Plus! I was able to get the Flextint lenses I wanted, so they'll change according to the light. I'm mad excited - they'll be ready in two weeks, maybe I'll post pictures (becauase glasses are so exciting >_>;;).

Bought four books last night. I bought the manga version of The Nightmare Before Christmas. Caved and bought a book that caught my eye a while ago, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See. It's about two Chinese women in the days of foot binding who become friends and stuff via...I think it's called "nu shu" but basically "women's writing." Sounds vaguely femslashy, I'll be interested to see to what degree that element is present. Also *finally* got Stephen King's On Writing, and will probably read it when I have a large chunk of time as King, no matter what he writes, is of the "do nothing else until this book is finished" variety. Lasty, picked up a Foxtrot book (and Sarah got another one) for to continue the marking of comics for my manifesto (in fact, I think I'll go back to marking them as my head has been killing me all day and that will be relaxing).

Now the real question of the day: All the money I've spent so far, do I have enough to preorder Anansi Boys and get the how to write/get published book I want? We'll see after Jungle Jim's, I guess.

In unrelated news, I remeber a while back I had a list (don't know if I posted it here, someone did though...) of things or pranks or something to do in the office. The only one I remember is the stunt about replacing all the coffee with decaf for a few weeks, then switching back to regular and watching the office spaz. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Does anyone have it? I wanted to put it on my sad, barren little wall here.

Yes, okay. Off the computer, put files away. I'm going.

Happy Friday! ^_^

*Sorted one more letter at work (alphabetizing those files is a bitch)
*Finally figured out the one thing in Prisoner that was vexing me
*Speaking of Prisoner, stage one of the outline is done. Now on to stage two, in which I actually have to put real effort into it. We'll see if Megan's patience makes it to stage three.
*Hit upon a few ideas for drabbles and smaller fics I've wanted to do. As well as a rewrite for one of my fairytales, though it wasn't on my list of rewrites...
*Am muchly enjoying Across the Nightingale Floor (Tales of the Otori, Book One) the second 'round, which isn't always the case with some books. I read it awhile ago but never got the other two. Finally have the other two. Almost at the point where the male lover interst enters (he's sort of a side thing to The Chick of course but totally there. "I notice everything about you" hehehe). I have (I'm going to catch flack for this) a weakness for the cheezy, pretty samurai-type stories. This trilogy takes place in notjapan and is very very good for its genre. Anything that wins my interest despite being written in 1st person gets mad props. /rambling
*Finally finished editing my SMP story. I hope hope hope the recipient likes it >_< I'm going to be a nervous wreck until she gets it.

Book and bed now.

Dear Real Life,

Stop interfering in my writing.

No love,
Exhausted Megan

But jeez am I yanking in the overtime. I wish said overtime didn't require leaving the house at 6:00 am but I'll get over it. Life could definitely be worse and tomorrow should be cool because I'll have a bitch slave minion (with a french accent, to beat all) to help me organize things.

*yawn*

Meager accomplishments for the evening: Wrote a few pages of Midsummer's Moon. If work doesn't kick my ass, I'm bound and determined to finish at least the second part by week's end.

Also spent lunch writing out the next two stories in Dance with the Devil.

And all should be proud that I did not cave to temptation and just write Prisoner all week.

I profusely apologize for failing miserably to finish Paradise, as well as not completing all the stories I still owe various and sundry of my beloved comrades. I wil get to them eventually, hopefully sooner rather than later.

I also wrote my Sensory story over the weekend, but I'm afraid it's fluffy, drively CRAP and not the cool story I wanted so we'll see how long I keep it >_<

All right, I'm out peeps.

*note to self* If you finish Midsummer, you may preorder the Lord's forthcoming Holy Scripture. But only if you finish Midsummer.

There is nothing like a cold beer.

Skylark, we saw Arbor Mist and thought of you.

Ra is my new favorite.

We can barely afford food for two. HTF did my parents manage for six?

*clean house
*get dreamweaver, upload challenge stories
*rautenkranzmt's songs
*chris' story
*sky dark's story
*Smp story
*Challenge story
*Sensory overload story

On the upside, get to slack for a few hours because hayama_sbwill be helping us incompetent blondes set up our house network and raielchan is bringing overSaw. So not only do I get to watch a 'scary' movie, Sarah will periodically stop to watch it, silly girl, and I get to listen to her terrified shrieks.

Ugh this house needs cleaned.

Unrelated note, I love this icon. One of my favorite Penny Arcade strips.