Apollymi ::||:: Dark Passion Play

LiveJournal has a way of really pissing its userbase off lately. (And by lately, I mean in the last two or three years.)

I predict a great influx of people joining up here and at the alternative sites: here, Journal Fen, Dead Journal, Blurty, Commie Journal, and the others. Amusingly, of that list, I'm on all but one of those.

All the same, it's all I can do today to keep my eyes open. I woke up at 4 a.m. and couldn't go back to sleep. I eventually opened the bedroom door to kittens, and Boo and I crashed on my bed for about 20 minutes before I just gave up, got dressed, came downstairs, fed the babies, and made my own coffee. I should be working on Verdant, because I've yet to get a page in the past three days due to extreme busy-ness, but when I'm this tired it would just be gibberish. Maybe gibberish is what I need to get back in the flow of things.

...If I don't fall facefirst into my coffee. Now that I'm up, I'm exhausted.

I look down at what I'm wearing for the day, and I realize that apparently I couldn't be arsed to give a damn about anything today. It's black cargo pants, Halloween skull socks (in orange, green, black, and white), and a shirt with a yellowish base, purple and maroon butteries, and purple sleeves. I'm so fashion-talented today.

And for the record, I seriously need a new job. Private sector admin assistants make $8+ an hour more than me. Hell, admin assistants in other parts of state government make more than me. Data entry clerks working directly for the state make more than me! I could pull up any number of listings on it... but only when I'm more awake.

So... yeah. I'm either gonna curl up with some Get Backers (till Farscape is here), some Dresden, or try to work on Verdant.

And after my completely random post yesterday, now it's almost time for me to start sending around my 2nd draft.

Samhain Publishing doesn't want it till it's nitpicked within an inch of its life. Juno and Cacoethes only wants the first three chapters.

I need to have it ready, hopefully by the end of the week.

Wish me luck, and...

Happy Mardi Gras!!

It took me a bit, but I do finally have a writing icon for The Preterhuman Series.

Behold!

(Stock image by stock.xchng's Wazari, used with much love but no permission)

Okay, after a lot of debate, I've decided to upgrade my account here from free to Permanent before they take the option away in March.

I'm still digging my new layout, even if it's all green. Actually two of my three journals are green right now: my Tin Man layout on Live Journal and this one. Journal Fen is still blue, for a while, till I find a layout in green that I like.

And I don't even like green!

Lots to do today: go by the GMC dealership and pick up my touch-up pens for my car; go by Sam's Club and get some of our groceries and a new box of my contacts; go by the Parkway Wal-Mart or the Thomasville Road Wal-Mart and get groceries; maybe go by Books-A-Million or Borders and see if either of them have the Sandra Hill books I'm missing, as well as a copy of the 2008 Writer's Market book for less than the cost of my (eventually slightly possible) firstborn child; and WRITE.

I did pretty well last night and got about 1800 words written after I got home, plus the 1000 I did whilst I was still at Grandmother's, for a total of a little over 2800 words. I need to do another day like that, preferably without the staying up till nearly 1 a.m., but I already know I can do that if needs be. I'm running so far behind that it isn't even funny. If I keep writing over 2200 words a day, I might be caught by the end of the week, but the more I write per day over that, the closer I'll be to caught up and the sooner.

So, errands then writing. Game plan.