Apollymi ::||:: Dark Passion Play

And this is a quick note to say a couple of things:

1) I am self-medicating my fatigue/exhaustion with the world's easiest solution for being tired: candy. 2 grape (my 3rd least favorite flavor - my favorite is strawberry, of course) Jolly Ranchers candies and about 9 (so far) of the longer Tootsie Rolls.

2) This doesn't mean I'm not also real medicating with Tums (again) and ibuprofen.

3) I make dorky Excel charts.

4) I'm still asleep.

I really need to quit tailoring my subject lines to my icons. Meh, oh well. I like my subject lines. I like my icons. No one else but me Hardly no one else reads this, so who cares.

I'm about 200 or so words into "Arcana". I vaguely have an idea of where I want to go with it, but not too much. For me, planning too far ahead keeps the ideas from flowing.

Traditionally, the big write-athon months are terrible for me health-wise. Last November, I managed about 4 hours of sleep a night, ate what I could quickly grab when I could take half a minute's worth of a break, and just generally abused my body. Last July wasn't nearly so bad, but I still didn't sleep or eat like. For April Fool's Novel, I've only signed up for 30,000 words (or 1,000 words a day), so maybe I won't overdo it too much. April Fool's Novel is mostly to get my marathoning brain in gear for JulNoWriMo and then NaNoWriMo.

It's also an excuse to get "Arcana" finished and e-published. I want to start getting my name out there. It couldn't hurt -- and it could help.

But I do need minions, to do everything else for me.

Happy birthday to me!

In about 1.25 hours, I'm going to be heading on towards Georgia. I'll be in Shellman the rest of today and till after lunch tomorrow. Then I'll head on over to Cuthbert, where I'll be till at least a bit after lunch Sunday.

I have to remember to bring all my medicine. Let's see, what all I do I need to bring: Nexium, Yaz, my vitamins, the stuff for my hair, and the Tagamet. Yes, I have to take the Nexium and the Tagamet. The Nexium doesn't help nearly enough, so the Tagamet takes care of the rest of the pain.

We also need to put food down for the kitties to tide them over till Tiffany comes to feed them tonight.

Other than that, all that's left is to pack and head out towards Georgia.

And on a small random note, I got up this morning and checked my email. When I saw the light flashing for a new email in my kbell@katherinebell.net account, I nearly squee'ed my freaking heart out. I had it in my head that I had gotten my answer to my novel already, and it was cause for major squee and dancing and maybe calling up everyone I knew. But, alas, I had forgotten that I had set my katherinebell account here to use that address too. :) Not cause for squeeing, but I did get birthday wishes from IJ (and JF). This is because they rock so much harder than LJ.

And I still want to make a music video to this song, using the last three episodes of Series Three of Doctor Who: "Utopia", "The Sound of Drums", and "Last of the Time Lords". I think it would pretty much rock.

And now off in a Georgia direction. Ciao, sweeties!

This isn't a real update, since the most I have to report is that Paula doesn't seem very happy and I really hope I'm not part of the problem. But mostly, I want to say a few random things.

I have new icons! This is one of them (and cleverly relates to the rest of the post). Okay, they're all the Ninth Doctor, but what can I say? I have a favorite.

I asked katsuko the other day, if I was a Marauder, which one would I be? She was quiet for a while, long enough that I had to ask, "Not James, right?" Finally she responded, no, not James. Apparently, if I'm any of the Marauders, I'm Sirius. I can definitely live with this.

I'm 49 pages into the transliteration for Dance in the Vampire Bund. I need to do 40 pages a day, like I did Tuesday, a few more times, and I'll be finished. Then in three months, I can get paid. Hurray for getting paid. (I almost typed "laid" instead of "paid" there. Amusing typo.)

I have a headache. Chocolate and caffeine does not help it. This sucks.

I'm re-re-re-reading (probably a few more "re"'s on there, but I got tired of typing it) the movie tie-in book to Terminator 2: Judgment Day. I like it. It ties in the first movie and the future, in addition to telling the story of the second movie.

My keyboard's left arrow key keeps sticking. It's very annoying.

We moved my desk at work. I am now in what I like to call the Seat of Power: the main desk in the Admin Office. Très spiffy.

And that's about it. Ciao.