Most of the night was spent working on my Drollerie Press blog tour post. I wanted to show why I call this blog “dreaming in rhyme” — but I wasn’t feeling particularly poetic.
My favorite thing to do is parody. Take a famous poem, song, even a Bible passage, and change it into something else (like Story Genesis, which I’m going to have to repost since it’s currently gone after the domain transfer last fall). Yet tonight, I couldn’t find the RIGHT poem to warp.
I turned to Gregar, my wicked Shadowed Blood Muse, but he was no help at all. Poetry, after all, is Conn’s area of expertise. He reminded me of a particularly smoldering rendition of “She walks in beauty like the night,” and viola, I had my poem to warp into a “bio” or introduction. It should go up 1/31/2009. I’ll post a link here when it’s up.
I also typed in hardcopy edits in NSR through Chapter Six while watching Tivo’d Hell’s Kitchen and American Idol. Not sure how many pages that is, exactly, since I printed it single-space to save paper. Still have a good 40 pages or so to input.
I also revised the page navigation on the website slightly, consolidating the multiple “Series” pages into a single Bookshelf page. I needed to make room! Let’s see, I have the Connaghers (don’t know if that’s the “series” name, exactly, but it was a starting point). As soon as I finish Revision Xibalba, I’ll have a Maya series. Then there’s the new 7Crows world I’m building. I can’t have a tab in the navigation for each or it’ll get too cluttered. I hate putzing around with html tables, though. I’m never happy with the end result, but the Bookshelf page will do for now.
I’m dreading the Evil Day Job tomorrow. Loooooong phone meeting. I’ll be taking Aleve beforehand to help mitigate the headache of straining to listen and track voices of a rather large group (some strangers, so I won’t be able to recognize their voices as easily) through up to six hours of discussion.
Oh, and if possible, I have a COLD. Yes, I just finished antibiotics for bronchitis, and now the right side of my nose is like concrete and I’m sneezing my ass off! I tried Bethanie’s suggestion of Airborne, and promptly gave myself a mouthful of canker sores (not kidding, 5 on my bottom lip alone) from the high vitamin C dose. Sigh. I guess I’ll have to do it every other day or so until my body gets used to it. Off to blow my nose and early bed to make up for staying up until after 1 AM last night.
Oh Joely, I hope you feel better soon. 🙁