Ew Ew Ew: Public Service Announcement

This bit of advice, from my internet crack supply* WikiHow:

Never step on a cockroach with your shoe, pregnant females carry their eggs beneath their tough exoskeleton, and smashing a cockroach will spread them, especially if you track the residue onto carpeted areas or around your house. If you kill a cockroach be sure to thoroughly clean the surface around the bug and dispose of or thoroughly clean whatever you killed it with. To dispose of dead cockroaches, flush them down the toilet so it's out of your house. Don't think that tossing it in the trash can is enough. The eggs can still hatch.

* Today, bugs. Yesterday, jealousy and obsession. The day before, arepas... Internet crack, I tell you!

And it's off!

After much delay, the revised manuscript Revenge of the Robot Duke's Virgin Secretary* is now in the hands of my agent!!!

w00t!!!

* (just kidding**)

** (I mean, kidding about the title***. I really did send off my manuscript.)

*** (Not that that isn't a kick-ass title.****)

**** (I'm kinda turned on by the idea of writing a Presents-esque futuristic historical erotic sci-fi romantic suspense. *****)

***** (just kidding)

I stepped into the...

Picture, if you will, Regency England...

1849: entranceway
1833: foyer
1746: entryway

1813: Erica's book

entranceway: what Erica's heroine erroneously stepped into

/sigh

Viva search & replace...

What the... Progress?!?!

Although I didn't make my goal of completely revising a 400 page story last week, I got this close.

Technically, I did do all the revising and all that's left is some rewriting... four scenes, to be exact. (Which was daunting enough that I killed the entire day yesterday procrastinating with my mp3 playlists on my crackberry, but let's not talk about that.)

Off to load up on caffeine and tackle those last scenes... Wish me luck!!!

Sick :(

Sore throat and cough... yuck.

Crawling back to the bat cave to feel sorry for myself...

E

Bwa ha hahahah

I'm pretty sure I'm the last person in the universe to finally sit down and watch it, but if you haven't seen Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog yet, click on over. Hi-larious.

Home!

...Which I followed up by driving to the grocery store for groceries (duh) and promptly locking my keys in my car (bigger duh).

1 hour and $65 later, I was on my way home at last...

/sigh

Stuck in the Airport

Red-eye from San Fran to Philly? Check.

Flight from PHL back home to Tampa? Cancelled.

Somebody kill me...