Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff

[annathepiper]

My favorite phrase of the evening: "HOLY FUCKING SHITDAMNNING CRAPMONKEYS IN A FUCKBARREL." This is courtesy of the fine ladies over at smartbitches, summing up their reaction to having landed a book deal to get their snarky take on the romance genre into print. I am all about the sympathy for their reaction, as that exact phrase seems entirely appropriate for the landing of a book deal. I expect to utter something along those lines myself if I ever have the opportunity.

On a related note, it is worth observing that I have now passed the nine-month mark with Faerie Blood in the e-queue at Baen Books. I realize that it's still likely I will get a rejection letter, but nevertheless, now I'm at least finally in the proper time frame to start expecting a reply of some sort--since their website does still, as of when I last checked, say 9-12 months' turnaround time for handling manuscripts. So resume crossing your fingers for me in that regard, y'all. Meanwhile, I need to get my ass in gear and get Queen of Souls finished, and take one more look at Lament of the Dove to doublecheck whether there are any last-minute tweaks I'm desperate to do to it before I get it back out the door.

It is also worth noting that I have now passed that one-year mark for being employed at the Times. Yay, job. ^_^

This week has been a long week and I am glad the weekend has come. I have to go have a physical, go over 401K stuff (see previous commentary re: one-year anniversary on this job, which means I'm finally eligible for that), finish up downloading Debian CDs for the overall master plan of having install CDs available in case a meteor falls on our server closet, and hopefully, writing something. I haven't written a damn word all week and the muse is starting to get cranky about that.

Miles since the 19th: 12.3
Miles out of Hobbiton: 2107.8
Miles out of Isengard: 314.8
Miles to Minas Tirith: 471.2

Comments

[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

HOLY FUCKING SHITDAMNNING CRAPMONKEYS IN A FUCKBARREL

That may be the most impressive expletive I've seen this year.

Now this is exactly the kind of thing the Second Circuit Court of Appeals was talking about (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1630538,00.html) when they referred to language no reasonable person would think referred to actual excretory or sexual organs or activities. Now, if the Smart Bitches want to say it again on national television while promoting their book, they can.

[annathepiper]

Hee, yeah, I'm sure I've heard equally impressive swear phrases, but damned if I can remember any of them in the gloriousness of this one. ;)

And yay! Court support for Bitchery swearing!

[gilroycullen.livejournal.com]

I've always wondered how you come up with where you are traveling to. Isengard, Minas Tirith, and Hobbiton, two great places to travel to, but how do you know where you are going? Cause I want to start doing the same thing with my biking.

[annathepiper]

It all comes out of the Eowyn Challenge, which got started with the original Walk to Rivendell. It's fun. They pull all this geographical data out of the Atlas of Middle-Earth to work out all the mileage counts.