Hai, internets!! I’m still here, although I’m waaaaay behind on reading for fun. And by reading I mean all values of reading including LJ, blogs, new books, etc.

Work has entered an extremely crazy, yet quite challenging (in a good way) period, requiring me to put in some pretty long days. It’s definitely all for the better as we’ve combined 4 teams into 2 and I (along with the other long-term project manager) have been promoted to Director. We’ve hired a new project manager to be on my team, so once she starts and gets up to speed, things should slow down to normal for me. In the meantime, I’m juggling twice the client load. There is a light at the end of this tunnel, and I can assure you, it’s not a train. ::g::

Got hooked on Grey’s Anatomy sometime over the last few weeks and have, as of last night, watched through the end of season 4. (yay for iTunes and DVDs). It’s made up for not having any new TV. At least SGA will start back up in July.

Looking forward to seeing a bunch of you all at Con.txt in a few weeks. It will be the only con I attend this summer, until I go to Bouchercon in the fall. (World Mystery Con). I was hoping to do World Fantasy again, but alas, it’s in Calgary this year and I don’t think I can do two trips to Western Canada in 2 months. (My Vancouver trip is the first week of September).

Spent Memorial Day weekend just lazing about and watching Grey’s Anatomy. Had plans for Sunday, but alas, the sinus headache won, so I ended up just napping a lot. Hope everyone had a fabulous holiday weekend (for those that observe it) and I hope to get caught up on LJ at some point in the near future.

I rarely watch Supernatural “live”, since I prefer to not have commercial interruptions, but tonight, I had to make the exception.

DAYUM.

I made some very random notes as I watched.

Here there be spoilers

California: FTW.

The extremely BEST of birthday wishes to the absolutely brilliant and gorgeous qe2, who celebrates a milestone today!

Wishing you a day as fabulous as you are!!

May all your desires come true.

Work has been a bit hectic these days so I’m way, way behind on the more social stuff – like posting, reading LJ and such.

But, the mood struck me last night to post a variety of links of interest as I go through my RSS feeds. [sidebar: alsdkadjfladkjf stupid eljay posting interface didn't update the post like I wanted; then, when I edited and fixed, kept reverting back to the original post. ARRRGH. So I've had to reconstruct.]

Linkspam:

Some people are just plain assholes award

Gene Hunt: vampire?

Henry Jenkins: behind the glass – discussion of slash and a cool thingswithwings vid.

John Scalzi’s new gig.

fangs_fur_fey have some lovely stuff going on, from interviews to the fascinating Monday topic-of-the-week post.

Sidebar 2:
Note to hyperfocused, and cereta who played the question meme with me. If you want a copy of the teaser sampler for Blood Bargain, e-me (mylima AT Gmail dot com). Send me mailing info and I’ll get it out to you.

If anyone else still wants to play – feel free – the post is here. I’ve got a bunch of the teaser books so come on and play!

Last but not at all least, a VERY happy birthday to

resonant8
ekaterinn
raveninthewind

Hope your respective days were extremely special!

Sigh, I had this lovely paragraph written about how my inconvenient and annoying insomnia last night led to me being really productive on the day job front (e.g., allowing me to catch up on some mundane, tedious, yet extremely necessary tasks…say, somewhere around midnight). But the stupid eljay interface ate it all. Both versions. So the short version: Couldn’t sleep. Got up. Worked. Back to bed. Slept.

TGIF to all and I sure hope I can wake up!! ::g:: (the groggy me is not to be trifled with!)

Evidently, there’s some sort of obnoxious virus going around. One that makes a person feel like they’ve been run over by a truck and that there’s a heavy iron weight on one’s chest and hey, no breathing allowed!

Yes, I’ve got it. Slept all weekend, slipped into virus land sometime Sunday and stayed home Monday. Heroically (or foolishly) I tried to go to work on Tuesday (today) and by 9:30 realized that I was not only foolish but really really D.U.M. dumb. Could barely concentrate on anything. I went straight home and to bed, only to be interrupted by a client calling me on my cell and then by the apartment management stopping by to change out the HVAC unit filters and check smoke detectors. Great service, but sheesh, I was in a fog when they were here.

Feeling a wee bit better now and not sleeping, so I guess that’s progress!

Planning to make it into work tomorrow.

I’m horribly behind on LJ and on just a lot of things. This stupid virus saps all my energy. I supposed I can get caught up by the weekend. I’d BETTER feel better by then, as I have a pamper afternoon scheduled at the salon. Something I rarely do, but am treating myself to on Saturday: hair cut/color and European facial.

Hope everyone stays well and am looking forward to seeing fellow fangrrls next month!

Happy May Day all! It’s raining and chilly here, so not so much with the “ooh, spring weather” but much with the drearies. Oh well, can’t have it all, I suppose. ::g:: Not really sure how it got to be May as life has seemed so accelerated lately.

The meme/contest (sort of). I came back from Malice with a bunch of the teaser samplers. They contain the first 3 chapters of my upcoming book, Blood Bargain, plus the first 3 of Carole Nelson Douglas’ new one, Brimstone Kiss. In the spirit of book pimps everywhere, I thought I’d do a contest. I couldn’t really think of anything clever, so instead, I’m going to participate in the question meme that is going around and will send samplers to those of you that submit questions that amuse me. ::g::

Here you go:

If you would be so kind, ask me the seven questions below. Just copy and paste them into a comment, replace the blanks with anything you want–personal, silly, surreal (e.g. 3. Donkeys or sandcastles and why?), or deep–and I’ll answer honestly as I can! Then post this in your own LJ and see what kind of things people want to ask you!

1. What do you think of _____________ ?
2. When did you last ____________?
3. __________ or ___________ and why?
4. What did you ______________?
5. What’s your favorite ______________?
6. How would you ______________?
7. Who would you most like to ________ ?

Over at fangs_fur_fey, check out the Thursday interview with Melissa Marr (melissa_writing.

Cheers!