And you taste like plastic and metal.

Sometimes, when I’m reading LJ, or brushing my teeth, or shaving my face, or doing whatever, I find that the hand I’m not using clenches hard enough to make the muscles tense when I relax the hand.

I feel compelled to at least listen to the music that Xjournal says I’m listening to while I’m writing the post, no matter how quiet it has to be. I just pulled out my headphones for that very reason.

Theio’s is packed, as Gone Wired closed at midnight. Finals week is upon us. School is plaguing my mind for various reasons.

I need to learn how to approach my life as if I’m going to be here forever (more comfortable, and allows me to modify my environment in meaningful ways) instead of using the knowledge that we will move. Otherwise, I ask myself, what is the point?

I missed riding the bus. Got my fix today.

Still f’ing sick.

I have too much fun when I eBay. I’m tellin’ ya.

I should stop telling people in LJ land that I’m probably going to post more later that day, because I never do.

I’m still sleeping strange hours, and about twelve hours a night. I’m ready to be done. The mono virus disagrees vehemently.

Another step in pimping out the iBook is in the works. 1 GB of RAM and Combo Drive, I can nearly taste you. And you taste like plastic and metal. Just so you know.

Blech.

Our Christmas/Yule tree is the best ever, and it wobbles alarmingly whenever Buddy goes into his cage, because it sits on top. No joke. taught me how to bend the ornament hooks around the branch so that they won’t fall off. I am thrilled.

Also, if you check out the pics from this weekend’s signing, you can see that I was full of the holiday spirit, as well as various and sundry virii. :)

Damn, you might say, what a sweet Earth.

I’m entirely amused that this is still being circulated around.

In other amusing news, that swollen lymph node is still there. Yes, I’ve been sick for about two months straight. Mid-October to early December. Anyway, I was back at the doc, because the antibiotics didn’t work, and I had had blood drawn, and she was all like, “Good news! You have mono!” I’m pretty sure she meant that it was good news that she knew what it was, and it wasn’t some other crazy white cell issue like HIV.

The punchline… a week off of work. As everyone keeps reminding me, and as I’d be telling them were our positions swapped, health first.

So, I’m sleeping a lot. I didn’t really notice the exhaustion, what with the severe sleep apnea already. I did notice the dizziness, but I was feeling better. Really. Or, uh, not.

I feel a bit guilty about missing work, but not missing signings this week. Sold three books yesterday, and will be out at Way Station Books tomorrow from 1 to 6. I wasn’t ordered not to sit around, relax, and talk books with awesome people. So, a little bit guilty.

Finished reading Myst: Book of D’ni yesterday. The ending was way rushed, and left way too many questions for my taste… questions that the author had raised in the voice of the main character. Ah, well. The meat of the book was excellent, and I feel ready to play Myst III: Exile when I get my grubby little paws on it.

I feel pretty rambly today, so you might get more soon. :)

Horoscope

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Connections are made slowly; sometimes they grow underground,” writes Marge Piercy in her book *Circles in the Water.* “You cannot tell always by looking what is happening. More than half a tree is spread out in the soil under your feet.” Piercy advises us to use this strategy in our own lives. “Penetrate quietly as the earthworm. Spread like the squash plant that overruns the garden. Gnaw in the dark and use the sun to make sugar. Keep tangling and interweaving and taking more in, a thicket and bramble wilderness to the outside, but to us interconnected with burrows and lairs.” It so happens, Taurus, that this is the perfect astrological oracle for you, beginning now and throughout 2007.

Lansing Locals! Books Signing Today and Saturday

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If you’re interested in Fantasy books, or just books in generally, you should stop by Way Station Books in downtown Lansing today between 11am and 2pm, or Saturday, between 1pm and 6pm. I’ll be there with copies of my book, and I’ll be surrounded by copies of other peoples’ books. If you’re stumped about what to get that special (or not so special) someone, stop by and check out Randy’s selection.

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Way Station Books & Stuff
223 South Washington Square
Lansing, 48933

Giddy.

“There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.” – Mary Wilson Little

stumbled upon something amazing in Barnes and Noble in East Lansing today. Two copies of The Remembrance!

I’m going to go in there tomorrow and do a drive-by signing. I’m incredibly excited about it. :)

Also, if you can make it into the Lansing area, and want a copy of The Remembrance (signed and personalized!) for either yourself or someone else who enjoys Sci-fi/Fantasy, I have two signings coming up next week.

On Thursday December 7th, from 11AM to 3PM, and on Saturday December 9th, from 1PM to 6PM. Both signings will be at Way Station Books in downtown Lansing, MI located at 223 South Washington Square. Google Maps entry is here.

Horoscope

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I know how you’re feeling, Taurus. I’ve done time in the same psychic prison you’re trapped in. Because of my exemplary behavior while incarcerated, luckily, I was freed well in advance of my scheduled release date. Would you like to know what I did to win my early release? Four things: (1) I took responsibility for the ways I had perpetuated my own suffering. (2) I practiced feeling grateful for the lessons my pain had taught me. (3) I thought deeply about the actions I could take to atone for how I had hurt other people. (4) I vowed to use the shame I felt as a motivation to become smarter and kinder and wilder.