Pictures, Words, and Well-Laid Plans

Ssssh, Richard is thinking:

( Richard Is Thinking )

Richard is a smart cookie from what I've heard and read of his interviews, but his face is just priceless. Why do cameras so often catch you at your least-flattering? Every picture I have ever taken makes me look like a tranquilized chimpanzee trying to sing Jefferson Airplane.

A second and final pimp for Secret Keeper, my Flack/Stanhope cracknum opus. The link is to the last section, but links to previous sections are provided.

Creatively, I'm dividing time between my NYC odyssey and part IV of "Detail Man", which has two or three days of writing left. It would have been finished this week but for the terrifying weather that kept me offline for two days. I suppose I could've unplugged my laptop and worked offline, but it's rather hard to focus on diabolical hair when you're waiting for the sky to devour you whole or for a falling tree to stave in your school. I'm hoping to put paid to it by the end of the week, just before the skies promise to darken again.

Pictures, Words, and Well-Laid Plans

Ssssh, Richard is thinking:

( Richard Is Thinking )

Richard is a smart cookie from what I've heard and read of his interviews, but his face is just priceless. Why do cameras so often catch you at your least-flattering? Every picture I have ever taken makes me look like a tranquilized chimpanzee trying to sing Jefferson Airplane.

A second and final pimp for Secret Keeper, my Flack/Stanhope cracknum opus. The link is to the last section, but links to previous sections are provided.

Creatively, I'm dividing time between my NYC odyssey and part IV of "Detail Man", which has two or three days of writing left. It would have been finished this week but for the terrifying weather that kept me offline for two days. I suppose I could've unplugged my laptop and worked offline, but it's rather hard to focus on diabolical hair when you're waiting for the sky to devour you whole or for a falling tree to stave in your school. I'm hoping to put paid to it by the end of the week, just before the skies promise to darken again.

Another Handy Protip From the Rosenrot Forums

Domina Dani Elfman makes this post in the Rosenrot rant thread:

My health is deteriorating even more so now. Today I have to go get uterine ultrasounds to check if I have serious fibroid tumours because I've been having severe and prolonged periods that keep me almost bedridden. One of the medications I was just put on, burns the Hell out of my mouth - turns my inner lips, roof of the mouth, area under the tongue, and tongue itself a bright and very raw red. Hurts like I scalded it! That medication also makes me a very angry and mean person, and I don't want this! I'm so sick and tired of all this . . . so I did something I never thought I would do again - chain smoking worse than Reesh.

To which Chevra replies:

I thought you said you went on a shopping spree last week? Did you have pain meds?

Yes, because no one with chronic pain or illness should ever leave the house or do anything that brings them some measure of respite and joy. They should just remain in their home with the drapes closed, quietly enduring. If you ever have a good day, you're obviously not sick enough to deserve empathy.

Another Handy Protip From the Rosenrot Forums

Domina Dani Elfman makes this post in the Rosenrot rant thread:

My health is deteriorating even more so now. Today I have to go get uterine ultrasounds to check if I have serious fibroid tumours because I've been having severe and prolonged periods that keep me almost bedridden. One of the medications I was just put on, burns the Hell out of my mouth - turns my inner lips, roof of the mouth, area under the tongue, and tongue itself a bright and very raw red. Hurts like I scalded it! That medication also makes me a very angry and mean person, and I don't want this! I'm so sick and tired of all this . . . so I did something I never thought I would do again - chain smoking worse than Reesh.

To which Chevra replies:

I thought you said you went on a shopping spree last week? Did you have pain meds?

Yes, because no one with chronic pain or illness should ever leave the house or do anything that brings them some measure of respite and joy. They should just remain in their home with the drapes closed, quietly enduring. If you ever have a good day, you're obviously not sick enough to deserve empathy.