mikhailbulgakov

The meerkat is my new spirit animal.

I will explain more later.

I have my flights purchased.

I have my hotel reserved.

I have my PTO approved.

Furry Fiesta is happening.

Let's do this, y'all.

There's less than a month to go before my book is released! I'm really, really excited, but I'll try to keep my ebullience under wraps. In the meantime, I'll instead keep folks sated with some new tidbits and material here and there.

Here's the back cover blurb for The Seventh Chakra.

Arkady Ryswife is a devout member of the Iolite League, a religious society dedicated to building the better world of the future. Behind the scenes, however, he is an elite soldier, a member of a covert wing of the League that ensures its ends are met where peaceful means do not suffice.

These operatives have a mission to recover crucial fragments of the world's lost, fractured history. Arkady's team is not the only one willing to kill for these relics—just the best. At least, until a fatal mistake leaves the team in shambles on the eve of what may be the most important mission of their lives.

Forced back into the field without delay, Arkady and his companions must recover a piece of data that the League has been seeking for years. Still reeling from their loss, they must go behind enemy lines, outsiders in a notoriously xenophobic nation. Isolated and suspicious of betrayal at every turn, they plunge into the web of one of the world's most astonishing mysteries, a journey from which none of them will return unscathed.

(Point of fact: I was never, ever, ever happy with the back cover text I wrote for Thousand Leaves, so much that it still kinda haunts me to this day. I like this a lot better, and I think it does a good job of giving hints at the plot without spoiling anything. As someone who usually doesn't even read back cover text until I've read half of the book itself, that's very important to me!)

Quote of the Unspecified Time Period:

Andrés: Have you seen [pirate movie]?
Choro: I've seen [pirate movie]
Andrés: *prepares for punchline*
Andrés: it's rated ARRRRRRRRRR
Andrés: *steps behind line to duck punch*
Choro: OH SHIT SHOULD'VE SEEN THAT THAT COMING *collides with the ground*

( Pictures! )

Not having been able to graduate form CSU has been part of my depresion. I would love to go back to school and graduate some day. Due to the fact that a big part of why I could not sucede at csu was depresion keeping me form being able to do the homework needed for classes. Since I have always been lazy when it comes to homework I atribuited it to that for a long while but thinking back I did have depresion that keeps me form being more active with tasks that need to be done even before my mom's death.

With all that had happend at CSU I dont think i would ever be willing to give them another $. Looking around at reasionable programs in the state. Ones that would both teach me what I want to do for a carear and be somewhat eazer for me to complete. Ive found the Mechanical Engineering Technology program offerd at Denver Metro http://www.mscd.edu/~met/ I can truley call myself an engineer after becoming employed after I graduate with this. Half the classes in this program I have eather taken an equivlent at CSU or have learned some of while working as a machinest. What will actuly transfer over form my time at CSU is a big unknown.

Some personal things I want done before jumping into this would be working thorugh the depresion enough to at least have some confidence that i could do the work on my own. have the estate settled where the famley busnes is fully and clearley mine. And run it for 6months or so as such to make sure its a viable busness that i can reli on. Also move to denver to be with in a reasionable comute to class.

If life takes me elsewhere away form this school, i may find another where I end up. But If I never go to school again thats fine, and hopefully things will work out well in my carears regardless.

Wish me luck.

"3176?" You ask incredulously, "What are you, a time-traveling fox?"

"Why yes!" I answer most truthfully, "I travel both Space and Time." I hand you a card saying 'Colorado Chrononaut's League' on it. "I'd like that back, by the way. It is mine, after all."

"So you... traveled to the year 3176?"

"In a manner of speaking. You see my calendar is probably a bit newer than yours. According to it, the year is 3176 as of tonight. What calendar do YOU use?" At this point, I am seeming more and more eccentric.

"The uh... normal one." You respond, still unsure about my sanity.

"I assume you mean Gregorian. Well then I might as well say 'Happy 2010' to you." I say, hopefully proving that I am still sane.

"What calendar to YOU use?"

"Discordian, of course. Didn't you know that I am Discordian? I seem to tell so many people that I forget if I have told you."

"Oh no, that makes sense now." You say, not really wanting a discussion about Discordianism.

"Would you like to hear about my night?"

"uh... sure." You hope that my night is less 'eccentric' than my introduction of it...

( Read on, O reader! )


Quote of the evening:
"That pipe is utterly fabulous."
"I do try. To be fabulous, that is. I mean after all, I don't smoke cigarettes, I smoke fags. You can't get much more 'fabulous' than that."

I went to Buffalo Wild Wings after work. It was apparently Karaoke night (in addition to cheap wings night). This proved to make the evening less than enjoyable for everyone concerned. I wrote a version of what happened that displays the night in a more positive light:

( Some Writing by a writer )

I have been habitually plagued with insomnia. I have identified as a fox since 8th grade and like the fox am nocturnal. I sleep much more easily during the day than at night. I am lucky however, because my sensitivity to Caffeine allows me to replace sleep with it when needed. I use caffeine sparingly, and only when needed, which is rare. For example, I will never drink Spike brand energy drink unless I am planning on staying up for over 24 hours, and I will never drink a second drink right away.

These "confessions" ought to be obvious to anyone who has been reading my livejournal for an extended period of time, or anyone who knows me in person.

The real confessions are after the LJ cut.

( Read on O curious reader! )

Well I understand all the risks involved with smoking. I understand the addictive nature of the drugs involved, and all the detrimental effects of smoking to one's health.

Despite this I am going on record to say that I don't think I will ever stop. I will try and keep it to a minimum and avoid serious health risks, but I just love blowing smoke rings too much. I am not addicted to nicotine, I am addicted to smoking. for a while I was able to quit smoking cigarettes with great success (and replaced it with smoking something much less damaging to your body: weed).

Yesterday started off very stress-fully (though I do not feel like recounting the events here). And during the work day, other stress factors added to a somewhat emotional state (other more holiday-oriented acts brightened my day a lot though).

I had done an image search for reference here at work, and one of the results was an old comic. I opened it and didn't read it. I eventually took take a break to smoke one of the Clove Cigars I had purchased earlier. Upon returning to my desk, the first thing I did was read the comic (which was still open in a tab).

I literally laughed out loud, because it applied so perfectly to my exact situation. Yesterday ended much better than it began, and I had a lot of fun at the Birthday Party that Dacks and I threw for JJfox.