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Oh, before I forget, I posted a book series review on my blog: The Children of the Sea series by Virginia Kantra.

And now I really should start packing. I've fiddled with the blog logo, laid out a "business" card that I might print up and hand out at SDCC, and chatted on facebook. A friend and I are having the eternal pirates vs. ninjas debate right now. Good times. :D

Sea Witch by Virginia Kantra
It's a Magical World by Bill Watterson
Sea Fever by Virginia Kantra
Sea Lord by Virginia Kantra
Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr
Naamah's Kiss by Jacqueline Carey
Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
Probability Moon by Nancy Kress

2009 books: 60

I'm currently reading Medicine Road by Charles de Lint for review, and I've gotta pick which books will be travelling with me on the San Diego/Oregon trip. We'll be gone for three weeks, so I'll probably have to bring an entire suitcase full of stuff to read, heh.

We got back from New Mexico on Friday and spent yesterday vegging out and doing laundry. We fly out of Dallas tomorrow around 6 pm, and then we're driving from San Diego to Corvallis on Tuesday. I'm going to need a vacation from all these vacations, heh. I did start plotting out some story ideas while we were in New Mexico. I'm taking a creative writing class in the fall in which I'll be writing the first draft of a novel (50,000 words, no editing), so I'm trying to get a head start on it. It's a high fantasy with some connection to the mythologies of the real world. It's still pretty rough at the moment, but I'm hoping to work on it in San Diego. I also wrote a bit more of an X-Men AU fic that I've been kicking around for ages. Good times.

My parents are supposed to be coming over for lunch today, and then Iain and I have to pack. As I'm sitting here at my desk, I just realized that I'm really going to miss being home. I won't miss the nasty hot weather, but I'll miss my house and my bed and my computer and the nice, dual-monitor setup. [sigh] San Diego is going to be great (BTW, if you're going to be at SDCC and want to meet up, email me!), but it's going to be tough to be away from home for so long.

Someone on my Paranormal Romance group on Goodreads suggested compiling a comprehensive list of protagonists in paranormal romance and urban fantasy, so I decided to get the ball rolling.

We need your help! Head over to this post on my blog to find out how to help add to the list.

And you can actually access the google doc now! Gasp!

New blog post: http://www.thediscriminatingfangirl.com/2009/06/27/pnruf-list-project/ We're creating an extensive list of paranormal romance/urban fantasy protagonists & series as a resource for readers, and we need your help!

Got a birthday party to go to tonight, and a Half Price Books visit to make. A friend of mine mentioned going to IKEA yesterday, and now I want to go. I do need some picture frames...

2009 books update!

The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book by Bill Watterson
X-Men: Mutant Genesis by Chris Claremont, John Byrne, and Jim Lee
Untouchable by Linda Winstead Jones
There's Treasure Everywhere! by Bill Watterson

2009 Books: 52

As you can see, I'm still re-reading all of those Calvin & Hobbes collections, heh. I posted a quickie review of X-Men: Mutant Genesis here, and a review of Untouchable here. And I'm currently reading Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds, though I might give it up and read some more romance. I'm still in the mood for more fluff than serious.

For some strange reason, DownThemAll! refuses to work right in my new Firefox installation. It won't connect to any servers. o_O This is vexing.

I dreamed last night that I was being very nice to Anti-Feminist Boy from work. After I woke up, I lay there for a while, thinking that maybe my subconscious has a point. Maybe I should be nicer to him, despite some of the hateful stuff he spouts and the fact that he spends his time trying to convince everyone around him that third wave feminists are a bunch of man-hating bitches who want everything handed to them on a silver platter.

And then I remembered that my subconscious also spits out dreams about flying hot dogs and snowmobile-riding sloppy joe sandwiches.

Yeah.

Anyhoo, I finally got the Sims 2 to reinstall correctly, and it's now working without crashing, so hooray. I'm going to work on rebuilding my neighborhood. After I make a cup of tea. [yawn]

I want to blast my desktop computer into a thousand microscopic pieces. Preferably with a thermonuclear weapon.

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Succubus Heat by Richelle Mead
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons by Bill Watterson
Scientific Progress Goes "Boink" by Bill Watterson
Yukon Ho! by Bill Watterson

2009 Books: 48

Currently reading more Calvin & Hobbes collections because The Forever War was bleak as hell and I need some fluff. I'm trying to decide what novel to read next, but I've been hit by a bad case of apathy. Bleh.

Last night I dreamed I was Obi-Wan Kenobi's sister (damn the luck!). I wasn't a Jedi, but I was Force-sensitive, and we were fighting bad guys, so he gave me a lightsaber. The dream then shifted into a weird thing about hiding from Captain America (who looked like The Flash) in a jewelry store. iamsuffocating, her mom, and a few other people from our department were there with us, and this woman came in and tried to buy a heart charm. We tried to play off like we were supposed to be in the store and told her we didn't have any, we sold out, etc, but she wouldn't take no for an answer. So iamsuffocating sold her her own heart charm for $100 bucks and we finally got rid of her. We were shuffling things around, looking for my lightsaber, when I turned to the door and screamed. Captain America/The Flash was right outside, peering in.

Somehow we convinced him that we were regular old jewelry store employees, and he left. But he had just turned into a flying hot dog and was hovering over the building, trying to spy on us. I saw it (the roof had conveniently become transparent) and told everyone else to shut up because he was still here.

Then the dream shifted back into Star Wars stuff, and Darth Vader was marching the original trilogy crew into the room as prisoners. I finally found my lightsaber, but (THANKS, SUBCONSCIOUS) it was one of those toy ones, where you fling it out and the "blade" telescopes out.

And then I woke up.

I've been having really strange dreams lately.

I'm backing up my files, getting ready to run a system restore on Lucius. Not a full factory restore, just going to go back a few weeks to before he started acting like a complete moron. I think I got hit with some malware or something. It's killing me; I really want to play The Sims, but the game won't even launch now. It had been crashing and I was trying to figure out what in my Downloads folder was screwing it up, but now I can't even get it to start the loading screens. [grinds teeth] I'm going to try to load Civilization IV on Umeko-laptop today; let's all cross our fingers and hope it doesn't explode on me.

I finally took and uploaded pics of Mama Kitty's newest litter of kittens, the ones that were born on April Fool's Day of this year. I want to take them all home with me and love them and hug them and call them George. They are so precious. ♥ The calico has the sweetest personality. It kills me that Iain and I can't have pets in our house.

The rest of the pics are here!

I'm quoting apocalypsos here, because she said it better than I ever could.

"Every time I try to come up with something intelligent to say about the murder of abortion doctor George Tiller, who provided late-term abortions, I have a "Flames ... on the side of my face ..." type of reaction.

So I'll just say this.

If you seriously believe that women are so lazy and stupid as a group that a majority of late-term abortions are done not out of medical necessity but because women just routinely and casually decide they don't want to carry a healthy fetus anymore in the eighth month ... if you honestly believe that a woman should be forced to carry a dead fetus until her body decides to get rid of it, if it doesn't give her an infection and kill her off too ... if you can stand there and tell me with a straight expression that every birth defect and flaw can be caught before the fetus becomes theoretically viable outside of the womb and women just wait to get rid of those fetuses out of laziness ... if you actually think a woman should have to carry a fetus without a face or a fucking brain for weeks if not months knowing full well it'll die immediately after birth ...

Get off my friendslist.

No, seriously, get the fuck away from me.

And I hope you never have to learn why the right to a late-term abortion is so goddamn important."

amilyn also has an excellent post on the subject here.

I finally caught up on my book review backlog! http://www.thediscriminatingfangirl.com/2009/05/31/book-review-bonanza/

Books reviewed:
* Bone Crossed by Patricia Briggs
* Desire Unchained by Larissa Ione
* Curse the Dawn by Karen Chance
* New Blood by Gail Dayton
* Storm Born by Richelle Mead
* Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
* Succubus Heat by Richelle Mead

Today... I don't know what I'm doing. Maybe just hanging around the house, do some Simming and reading. I want to go to IKEA, but it's a long drive, and Iain and I both are kind of sick. We'll see.

Last night, I had a very lengthy and involved dream that I was Jean Grey in an X-Men: First Class sort of setting. We fought this Aztec guy who could make himself invisible with the help of a gift shop worker. Later, Wolverine showed up and asked me about my sexual experience. I surprised him (and the real myself) by confessing that Scott wasn't my first; Warren was. And then we all ran around, jumping off of walls like in the new Prince of Persia game.

WTF, brain.

Iain and I went camping with the family this weekend. Twas fun until it got really hot and humid yesterday, which then wiped us all out. I'm still tired. But we had fun; I did a lot of reading and managed to catch a fish (illegally, I must add; I didn't want to shell out for a license, heh).

Time for a 2009 books update!

X-Men: First Class - Mutant Mayhem by Jeff Parker & Roger Cruz
New Blood by Gail Dayton
Storm Born by Richelle Mead
Nightfall by Isaac Asimov & Robert Silverberg

2009 Books: 41

Currently reading Inkheart by Cornelia Funke, and tomorrow, I'm going to run out and snag a copy of Succubus Heat by Richelle Mead, because I love me some Georgina Kincaid.

And now, I need to force myself to write a couple of book reviews. I'm way behind in my reviewing backlog. I just... can't seem to be able to force myself to do anything constructive today. Maybe I'll go play Spyro the Dragon instead.

New blog post: http://www.thediscriminatingfangirl.com/2009/05/19/what-are-you-reading-right-now/ I talk about what I'm reading. Now it's your turn; comment over there and tell me what you're reading!

Curse the Dawn by Karen Chance
Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
Cemetery Dance by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child (review)

2009 Books: 37

I'm currently reading New Blood by Gail Dayton.

Whew. I'm glad the semester's over. It's nice to be able to read for fun without the spectre of homework looming over my head.

And I, uh, saw Star Trek for the fifth time today. It's official. I'm a freaking addict.

I'm selling a ton of imps for great prices! I've come to the realization that I'll never wear 75% of what I own, so I want to send it to a good home!

I've got BPAL GC for $1, LE for $3, Nocturne Alchemy, Super Bad, HAEE, Cobalt Blends, Mythos Mixtures, Possets, Arcana, and Woobie all for dirt cheap prices. Shipping is $3 including DC.

Some highlights: Mead Moon, Hay Moon, The Phoenix, King Cobra, 2008 Halloweenies, and some 2005 Yules

Follow me to the sale!

Wow, I cannot concentrate on anything this morning. I have the attention span of a hyperactive toddler today. Which is bad, because I absolutely have to finish writing this paper for adolescent lit by tomorrow. All 17 pages of it. Urk. Get to work, Eil! Stop hunting for Kirk/Spock/Uhura smut! :D

I uh... seem to have a new fandom. :D

Okay. Gonna rock out to late 90s alt rock and WRITE THIS DAMN PAPER.

Today, Eil sez:

• 08:32 Ugh, I dreamed last night that a friend was making a HUGE mistake in her life & completely ignored me when I tried to talk to her about it. #
• 08:32 I hate those dreams where I wake up both stressed out and irritated at whoever I was dreaming. #
• 08:52 New blog post: bit.ly/17t7Wm A gift to make up for my lack of posting recently. Good lawd, how DID Jackman get his body that hot? #
• 09:17 On page 147 of 400 of Curse the Dawn by Karen Chance #
• 09:19 Watching yesterday's ep of Lost. #
• 09:21 Is it just me, or does young Widmore look a lot like a long-haired Marton Csokas? #
• 09:29 Oh please. Can Jack and Kate please shut the fuck up? I am SO sick of the two of them. #
• 09:34 Hm, Mr. Receding Hairline is getting too big for his britches. I hope someone kills him. #
• 09:34 Oops, I should be tagging these things with #lost shouldn't I? #
• 09:51 Oh right, Jack, you're never wrong. [eyeroll] He needs to die. #lost #
• 10:06 Damn the cliffhangers! #lost #
• 18:06 Getting ready for the last open mic night of the semester. Waiting impatiently for my lo mein. Need food! #
• 20:57 Oh please. We got a "boo hoo, menz is oppressed!" poem from the resident misogynist. [eyeroll] #

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Today, Eil sez:

• 09:29 @Scriptor Ahahaha! "No, use my SPACE name!" #
• 09:44 Today is decompression day. Time to play some Sims, some Civ: Rev, and read the 4th Cassie Palmer novel. Maybe some more Fables, too. #
• 12:57 Urge to strangle TPTB... rising... #
• 18:48 Watching VMars, the crazy cult episode. Poinsettias? Ha! #

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Today, Eil sez:

• 08:44 Uh oh, my copy of Prisoner of Azkaban is finally starting to fall apart. #
• 08:57 @iamsuffocating Hey, do you want that Hellboy TPB? I already have it. :\ Would you be able to pay me back for it? I hate to ask, but :\ #
• 09:04 @iamsuffocating Ok, that's cool. I hate to ask, but I've gotta start pinching pennies for the summer. :\ #
• 09:08 @iamsuffocating $9 #
• 09:12 @iamsuffocating Was it Dr. D? #
• 09:13 @iamsuffocating I'll drop by the WC. I'm still working on my paper. :D How long will you be there? #
• 09:16 Argh! I'm onto a good idea with part of this paper, but I'm afraid it'll be too long. Hm, to keep going or just trim it out? #
• 09:55 Crap. I've misplaced an article that I really need to use right now. What on earth did I do with it? #
• 09:57 WTF, it was right in front of me. [facepalm] #
• 10:51 Ugh, I need some food. I've got the shakes. #
• 12:24 It's a bad idea to mistype "fickle" and insert a "u"... #
• 13:13 RT @Siliconwolf: Happy Star Wars Day, May the 4th Be with You (add some light saber noises here) //groooooan :D #
• 13:37 DONE! The paper is finished! WHEW. #

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Today, Eil sez:

• 09:28 We have power, but no internet. Guess I won't get too distracted while writing this paper. #
• 09:49 Damn. I suddenly want to change the topic for this paper. Which is due tomorrow. #
• 09:52 Oh! Oh! the internet's back! #
• 09:59 @spam @Deirdre1976 #
• 10:33 @iamsuffocating Did you guys lose power? #
• 10:35 @iamsuffocating We were @ my parents' house, & nvr lost it thr. It went out sometime @ our house, but was on when we got home last nite. #
• 10:40 Whoa! Just noticed that the tree across the street split down the middle & is being held together with chains. )_) #
• 10:40 er... O_O. It's a good thing that they chained it. It would have at least blocked the street if not come down on houses. Yikes. #
• 11:17 4 of 5 stars to Desire Unchained by Larissa Ione - tinyurl.com/d8h5go #
• 11:18 I'm #reading Curse the Dawn by Karen Chance - tinyurl.com/cu3uhr #
• 11:18 On page 20 of 400 of Curse the Dawn by Karen Chance #
• 11:58 I could listen to this song all day, even when it's not August. ♫ blip.fm/~5hlbe #
• 13:00 Wow, I am in a seriously crankypants sort of mood today. #
• 13:00 @jfritsche Can't wait to hear what you think of the manflesh! MOVIE! I meant movie. :D #
• 13:04 Things that frustrate me: when the sound goes out on the computer after waking it up from sleep mode. #
• 13:13 Well, now I feel weird. I think a friend of mine from work removed me from her facebook. I don't have an option to add her back, either. #
• 13:15 @th3maw Nope, I can see her on other friends' lists. :\ #
• 13:27 Very nearly threw myself a pity party, but then slapped myself. No use in moaning & whining. Just gotta do my shit. #
• 14:14 [waves] @rambling_reader How goes it? #
• 14:21 @rambling_reader Haha. It's... going. Sort of. I've written 1 & 1/2 sentences. [headdesk] How about yours? #
• 14:28 @rambling_reader I nearly changed topics on the HP paper this morning. Talked myself out of it, heh. #
• 14:42 @rambling_reader I'm writing about... basically how the series is a Bildungsroman not only for Harry but for the community, too. #
• 15:18 Good god, writing this paper is like herding cats. I can't get my thoughts in line long enough to write them down. Ugh! #
• 15:45 Somebody needs to come up with an online concordance for the Harry Potter books. I need to find a particular phrase, dangit. #
• 16:26 @ladyozma I had to herd kittens yesterday, but luckily they're small enough that I can pick up all three at once. :D #
• 17:22 Ow, frak. I hate my uterus right now. :( #
• 18:14 My brain is in the wrong fandom. Was trying to type Voldemort & typed Wolverine instead. Uh... #
• 18:17 @mizzelle I'm trying to imagine Harry fighting Wolverine now. It's really derailing my paper-writing process, haha. #
• 18:36 @arysani "Big buck teeth?" #
• 18:40 I really, really wish the dog next door would stop barking at EVERYTHING. It's making me crazy. #
• 18:41 @ambermoon218 Continuity fail. I think his tags changed from X-Men 1 to X-Men 2, but I can't remember for sure right now. #
• 18:48 @ambermoon218 Ahh, okay. I knew he had the 1 canadian tag in X1, but couldn't remember in X2. Been forever since I watched it. #
• 20:29 @rioazul Pah, like Bush didn't do the same thing. Fox will do anything it can to try to make Obama look bad. It's pathetic. #
• 20:57 RT @ropeofsilicon: Women make up 47% of Wolverine's US audience: bit.ly/wd2kk //Somehow I'm not surprised by this at all. ;D #
• 21:13 On page 53 of 400 of Curse the Dawn by Karen Chance. Gah, wish I could just read this one straight through! Stupid paper due tomorrow... #

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