Yay! A new Wyclef album!

With Cyndi Lauper no less.


Perhaps the strength I need to get through nanowrimo!

Nano has been a disaster so far. Work is definitely winning the battle against Energy For My Personal Life this month. I actually went to bed by 2 AM the last two nights cause I was sooo sleeeepy even before my sleep pill. And the headaches have been bad.

But I'm back to my old self tonight. It's almost 6 AM and I have to make myself go to bed. Yay! A good sign! We'll see how the weekend goes...

haley is just sitting here staring at fernando

stoopid!

I'm going to make the supreme attempt to go to bed now, at 1 AM, because I have a bloodletting at 9 AM downtown. Stoopid bloodlettings downtown. Sucks.

More meez

I decided I needed a new avatar. (Why? Because I'm procrastinating of course! Ya-duh!)

The first one I made years ago when I was trapped in the prison of school.

The second I made showed me writing romances in London, wearing an historical type gown.

This time I chose a Victorian look (with clogs) in a theatre, while writing. Because part of me wants to be back at Stratford watching Oscar Wilde plays, and the other part is happy to be here, writing.

Okay but in reality... I spent a few hours reading Hunger Games this morning, and I made some scones, but the rest of time has been spent working out my plot so I can actually start the WRITING part. I think I've got enough plot worked out to get going tomorrow.

Is this troubling you?

The Importance of Being Earnest ends with some familial revelations, resulting in the fact that one of the heroes is now engaged to his own cousin. This seemed to cause some "distress" to people around me, after the play. (Well, more like they thought Oscar Wilde had overlooked something.)

But if you're A Great Reader of Aulde Books then you know that (a) cousin doesn't always mean "first cousin", and (b) though in this case it does, the taboo against marrying cousins is a recent thing, and (c) in any case it isn't against the law in England. And it's legal in many US states, as well as in Canada.

I just thought... I needed to put everyone's minds to rest.

Or I needed a minute of procrastination. I swear I was researching!

The internets: for obscure factoids

This is what the internet is really for.

When I was in grade 7 and "I'm So Excited" came out (Pointer Sisters) I could have sworn there was a shot where you could see June's vagina as she gets out of the bathtub. But I never saw it again, and so wondered all these years if I was crazy.

Apparently I'm not the only one who wondered, and very little googling brought up the video in it's pre-edited form.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-DcNPFWhbk

Time for more shitmydadsays

shitmydadsays

"Son, no one gives a shit about all the things your cell phone does. You didn't invent it, you just bought it. Anybody can do that."

"I hate paying bills... Son, don't say "me too." I didn't say that looking to relate to you. I said it instead of "go away."

"You worry too much. Eat some bacon... What? No, I got no idea if it'll make you feel better, I just made too much bacon."

"The baby will talk when he talks, relax. It ain't like he knows the cure for cancer and he just ain't spitting it out."

"Just pay the parking ticket. Don't be so outraged. You're not a freedom fighter in the civil rights movement. You double parked."

"You're being fucking dramatic. You own a TV and an air mattress. That's not exactly what I'd call "a lot to lose."

"It's not the gardener's job to pick up the dog shit. If you don't want to pick up the dog shit, then learn a skill like gardening."