It turns out the line in “Eye of the Tiger” is not “rising up from the terrors of Elvira” after all. Who knew?
“Excerpts”
According to my biography in the soon-to-be-released mass market edition of WINTER MOON, “[CE Murphy] writes a monthly comic book titled Excerpts.” I said this to Ted, and said, “Now I’m very curious as to what the comic is about.” Ted went into the kitchen, got his cereal and glass of orange juice, and came back into the computer room. “Excerpts,” he said, “is about a very rich clairvoyant who sends out teams of heroes around the world to try to prevent disasters he sees ‘excerpts’ from.” I love my…
I love geeks, part 2
Kit just needs a miracle. :) Ivpiter just needs money :) Kit’d need a miracle to get money. :) Ivpiter needs money to buy a miracle! :) Kit says, “Here, have this one. it’s golf-ball-sized and covered in chocolate.” Ivpiter says, “Don’t go swimming for 30 minutes afterwards!” Kit says, “Think they’ll make it?” Ivpiter says, “It would take a miracle.”
just stuff
Last night Ted made a comment which spawned the very beginnings of an idea for that environmental-themed novel I’d like to write. (Not that the link is really about the novel, it’s just the rant which caused several people to say, “Gosh, Kit, you should write a book.”) I can just barely see the shape of what I’d want to do with it, and will let it sit and will write notes when I have ideas, but man. I…would really like to tackle that someday. Sooner rather than later, because…
I hate shopping.
I needed new pants. I’ve needed new pants for weeks. I kept putting off buying them, because I hate shopping under the best of circumstances, which, at my current weight, cannot be achieved. But today, because I am sick unto the very *death* of wearing floppy pants, I went to Dunnes to buy jeans. Every pair of women’s jeans available gleefully advertised themselves as “skinny jeans”. Overlooking the fact that I am a far cry from skinny, even when I’m at my slimmest, my thighs do not fit in skinny…