It’s been a while since I updated here, hasn’t it? I’ve been doing some posting on LiveJournal, where my account is katherinewrites.

Mostly, I’ve been writing like a fiend. I finished Verdant, though I’m still going over it before I send it over to Carady and Denise. I’ve done a round of revisions and a round of edits on Amaranth. I’m about a page and a half into Ash. I’m going to try to get Verdant to Denise and Carady by the end of this week at the latest, so that will be one less thing to worry about while D. Marie and I are rushing to get through in time for Dragon*Con in two weeks.

The much lauded then cursed iBook G4 gave up the ghost completely while D. Marie and I were moving into our new duplex. Somehow I’m completely not shocked. My tech guy says it’s not worth replacing it at this point and I should consider getting a new one. The downside is that’s going to be about $2000 to get what I want/need, including Applecare. I’m $120 of the way there, thanks to a $50 donation from one of my best friends, Dirjanka. There’s still a long way ($1880) to go there, though, so I’m asking (begging) for donations to help me along on the way. More information can be found here:
http://katherinewrites.livejournal.com/1968.html

And that’s about it for me. Ciao!

So, since sometime Sunday evening, I have a headache. Yesterday was distinctly miserable thanks to it. Today it was no better, but I went in to work to get arrangements made for the candidates. I managed to get that done, but by 11:30 the headache was even worse, so I went home. Well, I stopped by the post office and picked up my long-awaited and eagerly anticipated birthday present from one of my best friends, Dirjanka, then I came home, had a quick lunch… and slept from 1 p.m. till nearly 6 p.m.

Oddly enough, I feel a bit better now. Maybe it was just the stress and the lack of sleep resulting from the stress after all. It would be nice if I could get my current doctor to give me the prescription drugs that my old doctor gave me a free sample of recently: Wellbutrin. It seemed to help me. I don’t take it often because I only 7 left, though.

Jumping back a subject, my birthday present from Dirjanka was a million kinds of awesome. I love getting candy, especially candy I can’t get here in the U.S.: Old Dutch Boterwafeltjes, Dubbel spekken, and Napoleon Lempur candies are my favorites. My father’s former fiancèe was from the Netherlands, and her father used to share his Boterwafeltjes with me. I could have lived on those things. I’m not any better now.

Dirjanka also offered me some proper bribery: one candy for every paragraph. I think I have enough stashed now to do that. Once I get to feeling a bit better, I might have to start on that. When I feel a bit less like I have either the flu or major exhaustion, I’ll start trying that.

I’m going to try to start recording a bit of “current meta” at the end of each post, starting on this one. It would just be like “currently feeling”, “currently hearing” or listening to, and “currently reading”. Honestly, as much as music inspires me, it couldn’t be a bad thing; for example, “Something to Talk about” by Bonnie Raitt plays in my head every time I write one of those scenes where someone thinks Lizzy and Murdock are a couple.

Anyway, later, my freaky darlings!

Currently Feeling:// Sick
Currently Hearing:// Spiderbait – Riders in the Sky, Bonnie Raitt – Something to Talk about
Currently Reading:// Neil Gaiman – Stardust

So, we went to see Iron Man yesterday — and I have to say that I actually like Movie!Tony better than Comic!Tony, especially better than Ultimates-verse Tony. Overall, I would even go so far as to say it was one of the best comic book movies in the last few years.

So, my roommate, muse, and reluctant commenter, D. Marie, now has her own blog: Ink to Page! Okay, I set it up and all, but the rest is all D. Marie. (Wow, look at all the differences in layout and colors!)

And that’s about it. I’ve been working on this post the better part of the morning — and it’s now afternoon. Therefore, it’s time to leave off.