We tried to dig a decent grave, but it's still no way to behave--

February 15, 2010 Progress Notes:

"Stay"

Words today: 900.
Words total: 4200.
Reason for stopping: Even though I think this would gladly keep going for me, the Dayjob is back at full strength as of 9:30 am tomorrow, and I need to get to bed now so I can go do that. Actually, I needed to get to bed an hour ago, but it sort of just kept on going.

Darling du Jour: He took the pomegranate from her hand, and there was a look on his face like the first day of spring. "These things are all the rage out in BC. White ladies in workout pants beat down your door for them."

Mean Things: Wendigoes! Your neighbours thinking you're a little weird. Awkwardness ahoy.
Research Roundup: Raven.

Books in progress: Paolo Bacigalupi, The Windup Girl.
The glamour: Some insurance paperwork and some convention stuff, as well as buying a laptop (and thank you to everyone who weighed in with recs). Otherwise, I was shamelessly lazy.

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Ohmigod I am up way too late here. I will pay and pay and pay for this tomorrow, probably two hours after lunchtime.

Good writing night. *g*

And goodnight.

Three Days and Nights in Audio

Just a quick note on my lunch to say that "Three Days and Nights in Lord Darkdrake's Hall," which originally appeared in Strange Horizons in early 2007, is live in audio at Podcastle this week. It's read by the fabulous Mur Lafferty and introduced by the equally fabulous mkhobson, and I am overall chuffed.

Throw tomatoes! Throw panties! Discuss! Enjoy!

The Naming of Things

Today seems to be a slightly stop-and-start day at Dayjob, so I shall spam LJ a second time.

So due to catching the tail end of a fabulous sale last night while doing some price and build comparisons, I did actually plunk down some cash for a new laptop. Said laptop has the specs I needed for what I am told is a reasonable-to-cheap price, and I will shamelessly admit that a factor in my buying it was that I could customize the case to look like this:


Bahahaha I'm such a girl!

Yes. I am soon to be proud owner of a Sparkly Purple Girly Laptop. I am all aflutter. :D

Thing is, I am not sure quite what to name the new addition to the family.

Naming laptops is tricky. You sort of get what you ask for. While it was done more in recognition than in the spirit of asking for it, I'm sure it didn't do me any favours that my current/soon-to-be-former laptop is named Coyote the Trickster Laptop, and the relative cooperativeness of my desktop probably has to do with it being called Mary Sue the Wonder Desktop. You have to watch yourself with this kind of thing.

So. I figured why not hold a contest?

People of the Internet, what should I name my fabulously girly sparkly purple laptop?

While I reserve the right to use none of these things, award no prize, and just go haring off on my own, the suggester of a winning laptop name will be awarded some actual fabulous prize which I will think up when I'm not at work and append to the end of this entry once I've figured it out. Let's call the closing on this midnight on Friday, just to give it some good and solid time. As always, showing your work is appreciated.

ETA: Okay, methinks the prize will be chocolate of some sort. Maybe something from Polidori.

Go forth, my pretties! Fly!