Obligatory Things I Did While I Was Away entry.

I went to WI. I worked. I'm back now.

Seriously. That's what happened. I worked a lot. 117 hours in two weeks. I'm absolutely burned out.

I also bought a huge new lot of merchandise (about 80 pounds) and am very excited about it. I'll be breaking it into saleable pieces all week. I will have my first show selling just this kind of merchandise by myself in a week and a half, and I want it to be ready.

The excellent barda was there, but we had little time to catch up on stuff. I'll have to visit her in the future.

I'm eating ice cream. It's so yummy.

I'm now to the D's of my flist, and I hope to finish in the next few days so I can get back to my normal mode of flist reading. I've noticed that I've been tagged for memes, but I doubt I'll have time to respond to them, so I apologize in advance. Sorry!

Must get to the bank.

Spoke to deepforestowl on the phone. She sounds like so much fun! I'll see her next week...she's stopping by on the way home from Canada. *squee!*

I must get to work on chapter 69. Bizarrely enough, there are no reviews for chapter 68 on Fictionalley. This is the first time that's happened. I wonder what's up. I think what's happened is that most people are now reading it on ffnet because it's updated there so much more quickly. I dunno. It's just weird. I'm excited that if you total all of my reviews for the three archives I'm over 1000 reviews now. *jumps for joy*

And...

Happy Birthday gmth! Congratulations on your baby, aramintasnape!

Artist rec

Thanks to karasu_hime I've found a new artist I like...tbranch.

Everyone has specific tastes in artists...I like strong lines, forceful styles, dark themes, and this artist definitely fits the bill. Check out this drawing of SS/RL...cool. Definitely cool. There is a strong comic-book look to it which I really enjoyed. And here's a good one of Snape. One last link: tbranch on Deviantart.

Because I have four billion things to do, honest, and this is the last thing I should be doing.

Request a drabble.

The rules:

I can only respond to the first ten prompts.
The prompt must include Snape.
If it is something I'm not comfortable writing here on my LJ I'll put it on quirkyhpshorts.

So go ahead. Leave the prompt (anything; a phrase, a poem, a scenario) and a character/pairing (the character, or one of the characters, must be Snape) and I'll try to throw down.

Festive spammer taglines

I laughed out loud at several of the comment lines of these spammer e-mails:


• oskro, do you love me or not?


• what did Ruth find


• Ingrid needs a card


• Eve told me about this


• Or live he rodent


• You Too Can Profit From Micro-Caps bing sysiphus

The last one is my favorite.

I keep thinking that there is a really great story in this, something really thrilling about marriages for Green Cards and Original Sin and moral choices involving rats and oskro's love, not to mention Chandler and giant stones he has to roll up a hill. Too tired to put it together, though.