I will kill people today, Leo! I will kill people with this cricket bat, which was given to me by Her Royal Majesty Elizabeth Windsor, and then I will kill them again with my own hands!

Dear WP users-
The WP theme development community is mind boggingly huge, but you haven’t been able to find that one perfect theme that shows off your special snowflake-ness. And you whine that css is just too haaard to learn. And you don’t want to pay anyone else to make a custom theme for you.

My tiny violin, it is playing just for you.

No love,
me.

For anyone out there who’s riding the train of “Laurel Hamilton sucks so much ’cause the Anita Blake books have turned into porn!”, go grab a copy of Strange Candy and read Geese.

This story was first published in one of the Sword and Sorceress anthologies, it was the first work of hers that I ever read, and it completely rocks.

And on the subject of the Anita!hate - WTF? Violence, death, gore and adolescent mooning about are ok, but teh sex is bad? What, PWP can only happen in fanfic?

The only person who gets to call me “sweetie” is my mom. You do not meet that requirement, and can therefore drop dead.

…grumble grumble….

If I had known that it was going to hit *ninety* today, I’d have worn shorts when I went hiking.

Seriously, it’s still April, right? I didn’t oversleep and wake up in June or anything?

So, once again, fandom-in-general is Displeased and reacts by…. holding it’s breath until it turns blue? ‘Cause that’ll teach ‘em?

And people wonder why I’m an antisocial misanthrope.

When I was in high school, and it wasn’t *that* long ago, I remember watching footage from Bosnia, and wishing desperately that I was old enough to join the peace corps, so I could get out into the world and… make things better somehow.

Well it’s happening again.

I just hate this stupid world sometimes.

Low 40′ with drizzles in the afternoon my ass. It’s snowing outside my window right now. Ick.

When it comes to my preferred software for organizing my (kinda large) music collection, I do not turn to iTunes. I’m a Winamp girl, have been for a very long time. So, seeing that for the first time *ever* I’ve got a CD player in my car, I figured I’d re-create my old box of “car music”. (Once upon a time, it was an actual shoebox filled with cassettes).

No big, right? I’ve used Winamp to rip and burn disks for ages, and never a problem, until today. It simply will not burn a disk, and I’m blessed if I can figure out why. All the hardware is working fine, I’ve upgraded to 5.5, I’ve double checked all my drivers, and still nothing. iTunes, on the other hand, is burning disks for me with nary a complaint.

This means I have to *deal* with iTunes, which feels more like I’m babysitting a five year old who’s trying to be “helpful”.

Yes, you can find my music…. NO, do NOT move my music, just find it. I spent a long time organizing those directories just so. No, I do not want to go to the store. No, do not copy my music to the iTunes directory. It’s fine where it is. No, you do not need to copy those .wma fles to .aac format, I won’t be playing them here anyway. Yes, there are nice things in the store but that’s not where we need to go right now. No, I don’t need to look at the album art. Yes, I’m sure the album art is pretty but no, we don’t need to look at it right now. We’re going to burn a disk with 2/3 of my Tom Petty tracks. No, we’re not going to burn two disks, just the tracks I’m selecting right now. No, a “smart playlist” was not what I wanted. No, put those extra tracks down now! Ok, see, we’re burning the one single boring disk. Thank you. No, we’re still not going to the store.

My job = a big box
Everything I’m supposed to do in a given day = balls of clay the get put into the box.

Problem 1: we can’t fit all the balls of clay into the box
Solution 1a: Make some of the balls of clay smaller
Solution 1b: Change the shape of other clay balls so that they fit more compactly

Problem 2: solutions 1 and 2 have been applied, and we still have leftover clay balls
Solution 2: Decide which clay balls have the lowest priority, and take them out of the box.

Problem 3: Supervisor dissagrees on what should be considered “lowest priority”
Solution 3a: Sneak the balls back into/out of the box. (passive-aggressive, but effective)
Solution 3b: Get into a fight with supervisor over job priorities. (semi-effective)
Solution 3c: Strangle supervisor (effectiveness unknown)