My new weights are awesome. Arms are sore just from holding them while doing various leg exercised today.
And! I've been wanting a Motorola Razr. All I've ever had is the crappy phones that come free with cell service. Today I saw an add for a free phone to new Cingular customers and I got fed up. I've been with them for 4 years and a new phone would cost me $80. So I called to tell them I wanted a Razr and didn't want to pay for it. You know what they said? "What color would you like?" A customer-service agent who is helpful and a company who cares about keeping its loyal customers? Get out your Good Books, I think the Apocalypse is a comin'.
Just e-mailed my resume today to a publishing company who is wanting someone to freelance proofread textbooks for them. I know there's no chance in hell they'll respond, but I've got to start trying something.
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Coupl'a Reviews
I'll write something substantial and interesting tomorrow. Swear. For now, here are two things written by others about Decimate:
From Euro Reviews:
Decimate: A Horror Anthology provides a new showcase for eight venerable authors working in the genre of horror. The collection includes twenty individual stories by these authors, several of whom are well-known for horror fiction. The eight authors in the collection come from both sides of the Atlantic, and include M. E. Ellis, known for her novels Pervalism and Quits; Phaedra Torres; Daniel I. Russell; Michael Kay; Amanda de Bord; Ian Rochford; Taer; and James M. Harris, given in order of appearance. All except Phaedra Torres have multiple entries included in the Anthology.
The short stories run quite a gamut of horror possibilities, from abused wives and children to the more supernatural horror venues; to the simply scary, spooky, and terrifying. Readers of horror will surely find much to enjoy here, because there is something on offer for nearly everyone. This reviewer’s particular favourites were the multiple stories by Amanda de Bord and Ian Rochford, and Taer’s “Her Master’s Wishes,” in which realistic, true-to-life situations are presented with a horrific spin. Truly, these are stories not to read at night without all the lights in the house blazing! Caution to readers: these stories tend to the graphic as well as the terrifying, so readers of delicate sensibilities, do be warned!
From skullring.org (an awesome horror blog - linked at right):
I don’t know about you, but we at www.skullring.org love the small press. Every time we get a new PDF or printed volume to review there’s that sense of adventure – the opportunity to discover a great new talent, to find the next “big thing” before it’s in every Borders in the world.
Anthologies hold a lot of thrills for us, and I was excited when I received a review copy of “Decimate”, a new anthology from our friends at www.WildChildPublishing.com. Although it took me a little bit to get around to reading it, boy am I glad I did! This book is a great read, a smorgasbord of dark delights that kept my eyes glued to the screen from the moment I booted up the laptop until I finished reading, 168 pages later. That’s right – I read this book from start to finish. My eyes aren’t going to be too happy with me later, but for now I’m riding a horror high.
The book features numerous short stories from eight of the most talented people I’ve seen collected between two book covers in a long time. Let’s see...there’s Amanda DeBord, Daniel I. Russell, Ian Rochford, James M. Harris, M.E. Ellis, Michael Kay, Phaedra Torres and Taer.
I was particularly taken with Amanda DeBord’s “Egg Man and the Serpent”, in which a child escapes the clutches of a predator when a mythic beast comes to life, and the cosmic crocodile horror of Australian author Ian Rochford’s “Lourella’s Kin”, which showed me that sometimes the best in Southern Gothic can come from the southern hemisphere.
All of the stories I read were great, and I didn’t encounter any that I considered a dud. They run the gamut of the genre, too: from tragic tales of ghosts and the people who mourn them to mutants, monsters and aliens, you’re bound to find something you’ll like in this collection, and at only $5.95 for a download you really can’t go wrong.
From Euro Reviews:
Decimate: A Horror Anthology provides a new showcase for eight venerable authors working in the genre of horror. The collection includes twenty individual stories by these authors, several of whom are well-known for horror fiction. The eight authors in the collection come from both sides of the Atlantic, and include M. E. Ellis, known for her novels Pervalism and Quits; Phaedra Torres; Daniel I. Russell; Michael Kay; Amanda de Bord; Ian Rochford; Taer; and James M. Harris, given in order of appearance. All except Phaedra Torres have multiple entries included in the Anthology.
The short stories run quite a gamut of horror possibilities, from abused wives and children to the more supernatural horror venues; to the simply scary, spooky, and terrifying. Readers of horror will surely find much to enjoy here, because there is something on offer for nearly everyone. This reviewer’s particular favourites were the multiple stories by Amanda de Bord and Ian Rochford, and Taer’s “Her Master’s Wishes,” in which realistic, true-to-life situations are presented with a horrific spin. Truly, these are stories not to read at night without all the lights in the house blazing! Caution to readers: these stories tend to the graphic as well as the terrifying, so readers of delicate sensibilities, do be warned!
From skullring.org (an awesome horror blog - linked at right):
I don’t know about you, but we at www.skullring.org love the small press. Every time we get a new PDF or printed volume to review there’s that sense of adventure – the opportunity to discover a great new talent, to find the next “big thing” before it’s in every Borders in the world.
Anthologies hold a lot of thrills for us, and I was excited when I received a review copy of “Decimate”, a new anthology from our friends at www.WildChildPublishing.com. Although it took me a little bit to get around to reading it, boy am I glad I did! This book is a great read, a smorgasbord of dark delights that kept my eyes glued to the screen from the moment I booted up the laptop until I finished reading, 168 pages later. That’s right – I read this book from start to finish. My eyes aren’t going to be too happy with me later, but for now I’m riding a horror high.
The book features numerous short stories from eight of the most talented people I’ve seen collected between two book covers in a long time. Let’s see...there’s Amanda DeBord, Daniel I. Russell, Ian Rochford, James M. Harris, M.E. Ellis, Michael Kay, Phaedra Torres and Taer.
I was particularly taken with Amanda DeBord’s “Egg Man and the Serpent”, in which a child escapes the clutches of a predator when a mythic beast comes to life, and the cosmic crocodile horror of Australian author Ian Rochford’s “Lourella’s Kin”, which showed me that sometimes the best in Southern Gothic can come from the southern hemisphere.
All of the stories I read were great, and I didn’t encounter any that I considered a dud. They run the gamut of the genre, too: from tragic tales of ghosts and the people who mourn them to mutants, monsters and aliens, you’re bound to find something you’ll like in this collection, and at only $5.95 for a download you really can’t go wrong.
Friday, December 22, 2006
The End is Nigh
It's 12:30. I'm sitting in my office just waiting for them to tell us we can leave early. They're going to tell us we can leave early, right? I've scheduled my day to include at least a three hour nap this afternoon.
Tonight it's steak dinner and a bottle of wine, and then tomorrow we head off to my parents' for Christmas, then to my mother-in-law's, then home for a day, and then off to Tampa. I don't think there's anything in the world I love as much as taking trips with my husband. He's the best traveling companion, and I really enjoy just being stuck in the car on long drives with him and nothing else to do but talk. This has been a long, hard semester for tons of reasons. It's such a good feeling at the end of the fall semester. I'm done with my class. I've finished up all my work and spent the last week getting things in my office in order. I have no responsibilites at all for 2 weeks. Going to read a book just because I want to, and maybe do some writing.
Aaaaaand, speaking of my class, I got an A! I was going to be satisfied with a B, but I made it! Part of me hopes that I really did well on my final, and that the professor didn't just take pity on my ignorant ass, but another part of me just doesn't care.
Oh! Time to go home! Merry Christmas all!
Tonight it's steak dinner and a bottle of wine, and then tomorrow we head off to my parents' for Christmas, then to my mother-in-law's, then home for a day, and then off to Tampa. I don't think there's anything in the world I love as much as taking trips with my husband. He's the best traveling companion, and I really enjoy just being stuck in the car on long drives with him and nothing else to do but talk. This has been a long, hard semester for tons of reasons. It's such a good feeling at the end of the fall semester. I'm done with my class. I've finished up all my work and spent the last week getting things in my office in order. I have no responsibilites at all for 2 weeks. Going to read a book just because I want to, and maybe do some writing.
Aaaaaand, speaking of my class, I got an A! I was going to be satisfied with a B, but I made it! Part of me hopes that I really did well on my final, and that the professor didn't just take pity on my ignorant ass, but another part of me just doesn't care.
Oh! Time to go home! Merry Christmas all!
Monday, December 11, 2006
Finals
Ugh. Finals week. For me, that means double-duty - taking care of my professors' exams, as well as studying for my final on Wednesday. I'm taking Phil of Religion this semester. It's really kicked my ass. I think I'll end up with an A or B in there, which is good considering the level and the fact that it's only my second-ever philosophy class. But, I kinda wish I'd waited to take it until I was a bit more able to take everything in. I'm keeping up, but all semester I had the sneaking suspicion that I was missing some really important stuff.
But, on the plus side, I'm really happy with the class. My goal was just to force myself to think about some of the issues of God and religion that I've had buzzing around my head for the past forever. I'm sort of an intellectual procrastinator. Seems like setting time aside to contemplate things wouldn't be that hard, but apparently it is.
History of Philosophy II is on deck for next semester. I can't wait because I'm totally deficient when it comes to more modern philosophers (as opposed to ancient and medieval philosophers, where I'm just mostly deficient). And, it's only a 200-level class with no papers.
But, on the plus side, I'm really happy with the class. My goal was just to force myself to think about some of the issues of God and religion that I've had buzzing around my head for the past forever. I'm sort of an intellectual procrastinator. Seems like setting time aside to contemplate things wouldn't be that hard, but apparently it is.
History of Philosophy II is on deck for next semester. I can't wait because I'm totally deficient when it comes to more modern philosophers (as opposed to ancient and medieval philosophers, where I'm just mostly deficient). And, it's only a 200-level class with no papers.
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Decimate is here! Buy it now, damnit!
Dude! It's out! So, I'm celebrating by starting a blog. I think I'm going to call it a webjournal or something like that, just so people don't forget how unique I am. Anyway, you can purchase a copy for your very own here:
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