YESTERDAY: #14. AN HOUR AGO: #17. NOW: #7. A little bit of this and a little touch of that.
1) Cacciaguida has an “opera for klutzes” post here.
2) I saw my first living “al-ciQaedas” yesterday. They really don’t swarm much downtown–thank goodness.
3) For the three people actually reading “Kissable Pictures,” I should note that a) I’m definitely changing the order of the scenes to track chronological order instead of jumping around in time, and b) the most recent scene I posted should really be longer and split into two scenes. This is the problem with all of these drafts: They’re too short, because I figure out which scenes I need only when I’ve gotten a draft down and seen where I rush my characters. All my papers in college were too short, too–my senior essay clocked in at 22 pages, no longer than a regular paper. …I’m pretty sure I know what the next story will be: a creepy little Ray Bradbury pastiche, probably called something like “You Will Be Pulled Back.”
4) Alias: The Secret Origin of Jessica Jones kind of sucked. Arrrrgggghhhh!!!! I still really adore the first volume, but each succeeding one declined in quality.
5) One of the things I like about LiveJournal is how you can have a little mood icon with each post. I got on this weird kick of listing which moods I’d have available for everyday use if I had a LiveJournal. So here are my 20 recurring moods (without capitalization, since proper punctuation on LJ somehow seems overdressed):
1 hey mister d.j., i thought you said we had a deal
2 a supposedly fun thing i’ll never do again
3 99 in the shade
4 well, at least we saved humanity. that’s something.
5 it didn’t quite succeed
6 work is a four-letter word
7 i want to do great things
8 secrets of my success
9 look back in anger
10 is it raining where you are?
11 love is not love that alters when it alteration finds
12 the man comes around
13 kill troll with sword
14 a famine of the word of the lord
15 learn to be still
16 and i will sing of the sun
17 gay blood for oil
18 you suddenly bring a bluer sky, a brighter day
19 there go the icbm’s
20 amo libertatem, odi aequalitatem