Oh my, my, my... ... That's all I can say. Besides that this is my fave store in the whole world! lol http://www.extremerestraints.com/the-cock-lock-intruder_2845.html?a=LeatherVault

This is happy news! Just the fact that the case is being reviewed is happy news. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081120/ap_on_re_us/gay_marriage_lawsuits According to the article, Calif supreme court is stepping in and allowing three of the lawsuits. Here's hoping that they overturn the unfair (for lack of mature'er word) law.

Without a computer and my fingers are numb from the cold. I have to brave the harsh realities of New England's funky-do weather, which I have loved to hate since I was eight, to get to and from the school's computer lab at strange nighttime hours. It's oh-so-very-cold outside this week.

I'm still not sure what I'll end up going for this coming Thanksgiving break. I know by the end of that week I will once again have a computer I can molest with badness for my very own, but I'm stuck between getting another laptop (only to have it last another three years and then DIE) or get a desktop computer which I can't exactly carry back and forth with me from place to place, but will last me as long as I wish to keep an outdated dinosaur and will have more memory than I can shake a stick at. I'm fretting about this as you can clearly see.

On the one hand, I've cleverly proven to myself that I can, in fact, live without a computer for me to use nearby at any given second. On the other hand, I am unforgivably behind in NaNo. I just breached 21k last night, and I've started to do the dreaded jumping around. Every time I do that in a fic, the fic never gets finished. So, this is when I start to panic. Well, I've already been panicking for a while now. I've discovered I've seemingly forgotten how to write good prose. I can't really describe how horrified I am by some of the shit I'm writing, and not horrified in the dear lord that's gruesome/wrong/how the hell can you write that?! sort of way. No this is the sort of horror one feels when you realize what you're writing isn't good enough for a cat's litter box.

Yes, I may be over-reacting just a tidge, but I can't shake that feeling. I seem to repeat myself 1000 times over, I think I've worn my poor babies eyeballs to a nib with the amount of times I make them glare/glower/stare/look/see/watch/observe...I need to work on that quite a bit, but I can't seem to stop using them. It's like an inconvenient mental block that's laughing at me.

See? This is why I had hoped to never lose momentum on NaNo. Bad stuff always happens when I do.

I haven't had the flu since I was very little, but that's definitely what I had. I spent the entirety of my Saturday afternoon curled under a blanket shivering to the point I'm sure it looked like I was convulsing and sleeping.

Sunday, I felt better, went back to school, and my laptop refused to behave in a proper manner. The backlight of my monitor kicked it. The panel on the back of my laptop is warped. My fan is dying a slow death.

What does this mean?

I'm getting a new one! Woo! I found one I liked at a price I could afford and I'm hoping to high heaven that my dad buys it and then ships it to me here. I never thought how reliant I was on my computer until it died and I bawled like an idiot.

So good news, I may have a new one by Thanksgiving.

Bad news, I'm not sure how the hell I'm going to finish my NaNo when all I think I'm ever going to be doing in the computer lab is keeping up with my flist. This is so frustrating! SO STUPIDLY FRUSTRATING.

The worst part is this is all completely dependent on my father and just RAWR.

I'm sick and want my laptop back. /whining

Please help them... I think they only ave a day or so... not sure. lol I hadn't been pimping them like I should.

"Every morning between 9 and 12 I go to my room and sit before a piece of paper. Many times, I just sit for three hours with no ideas coming to me. But I know one thing. If an idea does come between 9 and 12 I am there ready for it."

--Flannery O'Connor.

Topics in this post: Research from the sources, step #1 to kicking an Internet addiction - get a research assistant, a quick kick-start, my magical formula for writing fiction, accessibility on Election Day, anachronisms and ethics in historical fiction, my Muse pops in again, scanning breakthrough, putting that bachelor's degree to work, a splendid week, past the danger, trying to keep on track, review of Scribe's "Roman Enslavement," why historical research isn't as boring as it could be, and my Muse saunters in, simplicity itself, another three thousand words, strong winds and smooth sailing on the writing sea, hard BDSM the slash way.

(No writing progress report till the end of the month. But you'll see in this entry that I'm doing well.)

( Read more... )

( Review of Scribe's Roman Enslavement )

A due warning to all you folks who find discussions of real-life leather to be squicky: You'll want to skip this entry.

( Leather Seminar #1: Basics of Resistance Management )

Well I did what I threatened to do. I made a pie. A homemade Apple Pie. It was delicious! My first time. And I didn't do it by recipe either. All mine! Yay!

Aren't they cute? lol

Hey they're cracking!Yay!

Quick, dumb question... Whats a "Unique View" vs "View" at Dragoncave.

My babies...

Most years I reach week two of NaNo regretting my choice of plot twists, characters to follow, life in general. It's a slump. This year I think I might have overcome that. AND DO I NEED TO EXPLAIN HOW HAPPY THIS MAKES ME. For once, I didn't start my plot too early so I was sick of it by the time it showed up. My plot polietly held off until the weekend, where it exploded in a cloud of adorkable fluff.


I love my NaNo so much right now. SO, SO MUCH. Just *smushes my babies together and sighs happily*

I'm ignoring the fact that they just broke up without ever really being together in the first place. Regulus' prissy attitude makes me happy. Even when he's being stupid. Oh is he being stupid.

Aside from that....I AM SO MUCH IN LOVE WITH MY BOYS >.<


I'm not gonna say read some of it, but, I am attaching a small tidbit here: ( Om NOM )

No, it's not edited, but I don't care. The fluff must be known!

Title: Willamette, Colorado: City Of Sin
Summary: Set in a semi-AU where various psychopaths were not truly killed; the survivors of the panic drive the remaining military out of the mall after Brock dies. The government then seals the city from the outside and leaves the still zombie infested town sealed off from the world. The group of survivors must find a way to build a working society within the only part of the town available to them- the mall- at least until the military retaliates...or they destroy each other.
Case 6-2: Missing One 
Special Note: Chapters are broken up into two parts, the main story, which are called 'cases', and various sub-plots called 'scoops'. While the cases tell the main story, scoops are based solely on character interaction (though they will overlap).
Rated: R for violence, language, eventual sexual situations, fetish, slash

Title: Willamette, Colorado: City Of Sin
Summary: Set in a semi-AU where various psychopaths were not truly killed; the survivors of the panic drive the remaining military out of the mall after Brock dies. The government then seals the city from the outside and leaves the still zombie infested town sealed off from the world. The group of survivors must find a way to build a working society within the only part of the town available to them- the mall- at least until the military retaliates...or they destroy each other.
Scoop Chance: The Net
Rated: R for violence, language, eventual sexual situations, fetish, slash and het
Disclaimer!: I realized I didn't put it before. I don't own Dead Rising. Simple as that. I didn't write the song either.
Notes: This is a Scoop. Scoops are more character based than story, and though they overlap the actual cases they are based more on the developement of the mall patrons instead of Frank's little issues. Scoops are also shorter. 

Title: Willamette, Colorado: City Of Sin
Summary: Set in a semi-AU where various psychopaths were not truly killed; the survivors of the panic drive the remaining military out of the mall after Brock dies. The government then seals the city from the outside and leaves the still zombie infested town sealed off from the world. The group of survivors must find a way to build a working society within the only part of the town available to them- the mall- at least until the military retaliates...or they destroy each other.
Case 6-1: Exodus
Special Note: Chapters are broken up into two parts, the main story, which are called 'cases', and various sub-plots called 'scoops'. While the cases tell the main story, scoops are based solely on character interaction (though they will overlap).
Rated: R for violence, language, eventual sexual situations, fetish, slash and sex

Title: Willamette, Colorado: City Of Sin
Summary: Set in a semi-AU where various psychopaths were not truly killed; the survivors of the panic drive the remaining military out of the mall after Brock dies. The government then seals the city from the outside and leaves the still zombie infested town sealed off from the world. The group of survivors must find a way to build a working society within the only part of the town available to them- the mall- at least until the military retaliates...or they destroy each other.
Case 5-4: Not All Dead
Special Note: Chapters are broken up into two parts, the main story, which are called 'cases', and various sub-plots called 'scoops'. While the cases tell the main story, scoops are based solely on character interaction (though they will overlap).
Rated: R for violence, language, eventual sexual situations, fetish, slash and sex

My first egg eVER. Please click my baby.

I feel like baking... something. Pie. I want to bake a pie. I'll have to wait til next week, but i'm going to attept to bake one.