Kerfluffle for dessert, anyone?

I have learned a new word today--or, at least, I should say that I learned that a word I thought I knew was in fact misspelled in my brain. The word in question is 'kerfuffle'; I have been mistakenly thinking it was 'kerfluffle' all this time. Nevertheless, I am convinced that 'kerfluffle' ought to be a word in its own right, perhaps a dessert. "Mmmmm peach kerfluffle," said spazzkat, local LJer, upon this issue.

What brings this word to mind, for those of you who are not versed on gossip coming out of the publishing industry, is the huge kerfuffle (note my careful lack of extra L there) coming out of the awards ceremony debacle at the recent Romance Writers of America conference. This is being talked about all over the place on various and sundry blogs; the first link I saw about it, though, sums up the situation best. technosage was there, and has her own commentary on the matter. Me, I'm with alg, who while actually present at the conference, reported that she did not actually attend the awards and that it's a good thing she didn't, because she'd have had to storm out.

Meanwhile, a little visit to my chiropractor has shaken some ick loose out of my neck, which has done wonders for my ability to sleep. However, I don't think she got it all; I will likely have to go see her again soon just to get rid of the rest of the crunchy in my neck. Whether I do this before or after my surgery remains to be seen. Also, I still need more sleep, since I have had a few nights lately when I've been up till nearly midnight trying to write. So I've been running short on the slumber all week--and neither does it help matters much when I wake up in the middle of the night, poised between consciousness and dreaming, finding myself gazing blurrily up at the ceiling while a fragment of dream is still playing out in my brain and making me convinced I'm actually in a house that's tumbling ass over teakettle down a hillside.

Thanks to the lovely mamishka and lyricae, I now have a copy of the Mal-cover Serenity #1; yay! Naturally I plowed through it last night. Picoreview: nice art, all the cast members in proper character form, and it felt overall like 10 or 15 minutes of an actual Firefly episode. It was therefore entirely too short. I am now anxious to see Serenity #2. Two copies of the Kaylee-cover issue, Meems reports, are now in her hands. Meems also reports word of impending Firefly novels, which makes me perk up and go 'oooooh'. I hope that they will be good ones, for lo, I may actually have to buy one or two of those.

Speaking of media tie-in novels, I re-read another one of my X-Files tie-in novels last night: Antibodies, by Kevin J. Anderson. Not too bad, though his prose was not as good as Ben Mezrich's Skin, and neither was his characterization. There was one instance in the first couple of pages where a sentence fragment leapt right out at me, a fragment that wasn't being used in any sort of effective way; it was just there. Because I am feeling nostalgic, I think I will re-read the rest of the novels anyway. I do miss me some X-Files, at least from the earlier seasons before it started to suck.

I am informed that I should be receiving a phone call from Swedish on the 19th as to when exactly my surgery is going to be scheduled for the 23rd. Goody.

Days till my thyroid surgery: 19
Days without a rejection letter from Luna: 70
Days without a rejection letter from Nadia Cornier: 52
Tuesday miles: 1.1
Wednesday miles: 1.0
Thursday morning miles: 1.0
Miles out of Hobbiton: 275.75
Miles to Rivendell: 182.25

OH THE IRONY

Dubya, you sly dog. Here you had us believing that you don't like activist judges--and then you go and put forth as your nominee to the Supreme Court a guy who, or so the L.A. Times reports, once contributed pro bono work to gay activist causes.

Reading over the article, I see references to liberal concerns that this is hardly indicative of the man's overall views as a whole or how he would perform as a justice if he were indeed appointed to the Court--which is true, and which is something that's very important to keep in mind. But nevertheless it's quite the interesting little grain of information about him, and from what solarbird is seeing on the various neoconservative sites she regularly monitors, they are Deeply Displeased. It will be interesting to see what ramifications, if any, this has on his support in Congress--and what, if anything, ol' Shrub has to say about it.

Me, I'm now anxious to see Jon Stewart and the Daily Show take this one on.