Monday morning bits and pieces.: seanan

Monday morning bits and pieces.

1. I'm still taking entries in my "ask a question, win an ARC" drawing. Remember that two prizes will be awarded, one by our old friend, Random Number Generator (oh, Genny, you're so capricious), and once by me choosing the best question of the bunch. Please, please don't ask for spoilers. Ask questions that would potentially be found in an FAQ, even one as profoundly silly as mine.

2. I'm a Barbie girl! Well. Sometimes. The brilliant Tara O'Shea (who does my website graphics, and isn't she amazing?) does Barbie customs, because she is marginally insane, and is now making me my very own Alice Price-Healy, because I am marginally insane. Tracking down 1/6th scale weapons and camping gear is surprisingly soothing. As is the part where, when I'm done, I get to ship it all off to Tara, and not deal with it until it comes back as a real, live Barbie of one of my characters. My life is so hard sometimes. (This will not be my first custom Barbie. That honor goes to Lt. Anis Bihari of the USS Rutan. She has spots!)

3. According to DAW, finished copies of Late Eclipses now exist, and I should have mine in a week or so. So you can look forward to pictures of Thomas putting the now-traditional toothmarks in the cover of my file copy, right before I start hyperventilating.

4. Yesterday, I went to two flea markets with my mother and youngest sister, both of whom acquired Immense Amounts of Crap. Despite bringing my naked Gloom Beach Draculaura along so that I could try clothes on her (Monster High dolls can wear many Bratz and Moxie Girl fashions), I managed not to buy anything except for a bottle of water. I compensated for this by swinging through the Berkeley Half-Price Books and acquiring yet another sack of books I won't get around to reading for a month or more. I need help.

5. And by "help," I mean "I need someone to come over and shelve things with me for about seven hours solid." Even that may not conquer the leaning piles of literature and restore my capacity to see the floor, but I am occasionally a crazy idealist where such things are concerned.

6. In an effort to not be a total wreck today, I spent about two hours last night sitting on the couch, watching telly. Specifically, the post-Superbowl episode of Glee, which I loved, and the first episode of the North American Being Human, which I loved. So it was a night full of love. That's even before you take into account the seven-month-old Maine Coon draped across my lap, loving me so loudly that I had to turn up the volume on the TV (kid has a purr like a lawnmower).

7. CD Baby has sent me their restock request, and so I'll be mailing them restock of Wicked Girls, Red Roses and Dead Things, and Pretty Little Dead Girl tomorrow. If you're looking for Stars Fall Home, I really am sold out, but Southern Fried Filk has several, as do many other filk dealers I know.

That's my Monday. What's new in the world of you?

sheistheweather

February 7 2011, 18:11:11 UTC 6 years ago

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Dreaming, thinking, imagining... Many stories and people wandering about in my mind these days. They haven't found the door out yet.

I have a headcold, but that will pass.

I have work for the next week and a half, which is awesome.

I am still an optimist. Parts of life are hard, and they are balanced by the parts that are awesome.

tikiera

February 7 2011, 18:20:30 UTC 6 years ago

I got to see the Black Swan this weekend, it rode the line between unreliable narrator and coherent movie fairly well.

I am looking forward to actually getting to PLAY in my round robin superhero game this weekend - I am the primary ST and have run 8 out of the last 9 games, despite wanting to play. I am finally getting things set up well, I have a stable of both villains and rp NPCs set up or in the process of being set up, and my brain is active with the plotting. Since plotting was painfully hard a few weeks ago, I am riding that high of things finally coming together. Apparently I had to go back to the basics and bring in some classic villains.

I would offer to help shelve books (cause it would give me reading ideas) but I am waaaayyyy to far away.

seanan_mcguire

February 8 2011, 15:47:21 UTC 6 years ago

Yay, gaming!

6 years ago

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silvertwi

February 7 2011, 19:13:24 UTC 6 years ago Edited: February 7 2011, 19:13:39 UTC

I was going to say something similar about helping shelve. I do it as my work-study job on campus anyways...

But I, too, am on the wrong coast.

tintiger

February 7 2011, 19:16:10 UTC 6 years ago

Being able to see the floor is over-rated :-)

While it isn't good for books you plan to keep for ever and ever, you could layer them across the floor to provide a solid surface (added insulation, plus you can then see which titles you have at a glance) ... when you walk across them, bent double, and still bash your head on the ceiling - that's when you know you're approaching too many books!

Good luck with the shelving - mine is double stacked on each shelf and with a precarious tower of books as tall and wide again as the shelving on the top. Sometimes I think they talk to me ;-)

February 8 2011, 15:49:22 UTC 6 years ago

What's sad is that I've gotten absolutely ruthless about not hanging onto things I don't think I'm going to want to read again later, and they're still expanding at a near-exponential rate.

February 7 2011, 19:17:00 UTC 6 years ago

What's new in the world of you?

I have gotten on a creative swing and publicly posted on my lj promising to post something creative every day. I'm on day 6, and still going strong...with photography, chocolate chip cookies (from scratch) and a 350 word piece of writing.

The side effect is that I now walk to classes with my camera out going, Ooh, shiny! I have so far managed not to be late to class.

And my photography is improving rapidly.

February 8 2011, 15:49:31 UTC 6 years ago

Awesome!

firynze

February 7 2011, 19:36:55 UTC 6 years ago

Oddly enough, one of the things new in my Monday world is planning out a Barbie modification to create an action figure of one of the characters in Broken...

February 8 2011, 15:49:43 UTC 6 years ago

Fantastic!

theashgirl

February 7 2011, 19:37:20 UTC 6 years ago

If I lived nearby, I would totally offer to come help shelve. I sometimes find shelving very soothing. Of course I should probably do some shelving of my own, though admittedly mine will not take seven hours.

I actually really want to get one of those UPC scanners so I can scan all my books into Goodreads and keep track of what I actually own. Because I own way more books than any broke 26-year-old has a right to. (Books before groceries, this is my problem.)

mac_arthur_park

February 7 2011, 19:51:15 UTC 6 years ago

Books before groceries, this is my problem

Sounds VERY familiar.

qnofhrt

February 8 2011, 15:52:44 UTC 6 years ago

PENGUIN!

seabhac_mhor

February 7 2011, 19:48:54 UTC 6 years ago

That's my Monday. What's new in the world of you?

A paper for my Communication, Media and Culture class is eating my brain - how's this for a title?

"Making the Invisible Visible: Challenging Artificial Gender Dichotomies"

I had to pick a "most pressing issue of our times" - like there's only ONE?!? - and decided to run with that. Then, provided my brain is not fully eaten, I may consider working on my next take-home midterm for my Reason in Controversy class.

February 8 2011, 15:53:00 UTC 6 years ago

That's awesome.

Also, I don't have your phone number. Email me?

February 7 2011, 19:49:21 UTC 6 years ago

I zombied my way though work on three hours of sleep, cashed my check and bought the spousebeast's Valentine's Day/wedding anniversary (it'll be a year on the 16th). Because I am a deeply sentimental sort, I got him a ceramic knife and the new Anthony Bourdain book.

Okay, so it was somewhat self-serving, but he's wanted one of those knives for months.

February 8 2011, 19:34:04 UTC 6 years ago

I applaud your industry!

belle_noiseuse

February 7 2011, 20:34:01 UTC 6 years ago

I knitted a mitten and watched all 13 episodes of Lost Girl.

... and now I am considering watching them again, in the absence of a second season to blast through. Ack.

February 8 2011, 19:34:13 UTC 6 years ago

Rock on!

kyburg

February 7 2011, 20:42:43 UTC 6 years ago

I...um. Made a whole set of Quantum Leap action figures out of Barbie dolls. Yes, you can hit me now.

dornbeast

February 7 2011, 23:37:13 UTC 6 years ago

Yes, you can ~~hit~~ stand in awe of me now.

(edited to reflect my reaction)

hoppytoad79

February 7 2011, 20:54:27 UTC 6 years ago

If I were closer, I'd come shelve your books for you. Great excuse to come and meet Lilly and the Miracle Gro Cats.

February 8 2011, 19:36:09 UTC 6 years ago

And they would love you and love you and love you for giving them more things to knock over. Truly.

droewyn

February 7 2011, 21:14:12 UTC 6 years ago

Oh, wow. I just spent all weekend looking for a copy of Stars Fall Home. The only one I could find was in Germany, and I ordered it, only to be told that they just sold their last copy. Thanks for the heads-up!

February 8 2011, 19:36:26 UTC 6 years ago

Yeah, a lot of filk dealers still have them. I just don't anymore.

vettecat

February 7 2011, 21:16:15 UTC 6 years ago

That's even before you take into account the seven-month-old Maine Coon draped across my lap
Awwwwwwwwww!

February 8 2011, 19:36:39 UTC 6 years ago

He is the LOVINGEST boy.

February 8 2011, 22:25:34 UTC 6 years ago

Books are horny little devils.

tygerversionx

February 8 2011, 01:00:49 UTC 6 years ago

My Monday was greeted by more temporary crown tooth pain, so my noon was greeted by a post-drilling-to-get-the-bite-right painkillers!

Hey, there's another question for your FAQ (not really, if you don't want to) ... do the Folk need dental work ever? Or, good grief, how are dentist trips in the Newsflesh world? Yeesh, I really hope a trip to the dentist doesn't result in spontaneous conversion. That would suck.

February 8 2011, 22:25:57 UTC 6 years ago

Ow ow ow ow dentists ow.

The fae use magic. The Newsflesh-verse people use prayer. And really, really good sedation.

bigherman

February 8 2011, 02:40:42 UTC 6 years ago

Shelving party! Half the fun is figuring out what system you use to organize things! Yay!

February 8 2011, 22:26:06 UTC 6 years ago

The other half? VISIBLE FLOOR.

phoenixrave

February 8 2011, 02:54:37 UTC 6 years ago

My Sunday evening was also spent loving the latest "Glee." I ended up crashing with my friends Sid and Rachel and their son Whit (19 months and adorable!). The four of us spent Monday eating Tie-fighter, X-Wing, and Millenium Falcon shaped pancakes and having a fun time. Later in the day, Whit got a strange look in his eye and began biting, repeatedly, myself and the dog, no matter what his parents did.
Has the rising started and no one told me?

February 8 2011, 22:26:14 UTC 6 years ago

Surprise!

supersniffles

February 8 2011, 11:24:53 UTC 6 years ago

The rumor I heard was that the Monster High dolls are built on the old My Scene chassis, so they should be able to wear those, too.
My Draculaura is still in her box, because I have a dream that involves a lovely shelf to display her on... And the rest of the Monster High Squad!

February 8 2011, 22:26:44 UTC 6 years ago

Really? AWESOME.

Have you seen the next wave outfit for Draculaura? Super-cute, although I'm still hoping for Dawn of the Dance Ula-D.

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