…and today was a ridiculously long day and somehow even though it was a half day for me (for the second half of the day!) I ended up back at the office at three for a meeting and didn’t get out of the meeting (“half hour, I swear,” my boss says) until almost five and by the time I got home I was so damn tired and misanthropic that I cancelled on meeting a few friends for delicious Mexican food because jesus I don’t need Mexican I need sleep and the book isn’t selling for shit (I suspect there is some literal form of purchasable shit that is selling better than my books) and it’s too cold in this house and since when do I think cold is a problem and “Grapefruit Diet” is kind of a crappy Weird Al song and why is that running through my head and I’ve been having weird dreams and having trouble getting up in the mornings for like four days straight which is really weird because generally I don’t remember my dreams at all and all I want to do is go to bed or maybe kill some orcs for a few hours but my wife is probably going to want the TV because as I established yesterday I watch approximately ten thousand hours of television a week somehow and at least tomorrow is payday because oh god I want to die.
Blargh.
(Oh: I was just told that I was nominated for one of those blog awards. The guy said I run an “amazing blog.” Which is an awesome and kind thing for someone to say to me and after this post all I can think of is joke’s on you, Jack. I’m going to bed.)
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That song and its original are special to me for the weirdest reason: it was one of the songs my middle school band attempted to play. It never got there, but that’s middle school for you.
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You definately need some sleep! You’ll feel better about life after some downtime. Sleep, have a play date with your family and forget about everything for a day or so!
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WTF is that gif??? The biologist in me wants to know, and the sane person in me wants to stay far away.
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I have to be honest, I only read the whole post hoping to find out what that gif is. But instead of finding out what that gif is, I found out that you wrote a book and that it’s for sale. So I clicked on the picture of your book, read the description and then bought it. But if you don’t tell me what that gif is, I’m demanding my $2.99 back.
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Details here: http://animals.io9.com/holy-crap-what-is-this-writhing-deep-sea-creature-1644520651/1644544623/+AnnaleeNewitz
And thanks. 🙂
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Whenever a boss says, “half an hour, I promise,” it never is only half an hour. This includes the length of meetings, the length of waiting for meetings, and the time of arrival when they’re expected. Gems I learned from my brief stint in the corporate world that remind me how I shall never wish to return ever.
I get enough of that with my friends. “Yeah, we’ll go out in about half an hour.” “Okay, cool, see you guys in two hours when you’re ACTUALLY read.”
Sorry you had a bad day. Hope you got some good sleep and the next ones are better. And, heck, it is payday, so I’m off to buy your book ’cause I haven’t done it yet. YAY.
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You guys are training me poorly. If I put up a straight advertising post, nothing happens. If I WHINE, I get sales. 🙂
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Nahh man I’m Buddhist. I believe in karma. If you whine and it gets you a sale, then that means, maybe, when it’s ME whining later about my own abysmal progress, I’ll get a sale, too.
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Also, thanks. 👍
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