Ack.

Jan. 20th, 2006 02:20 pm
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So here we are again, friday afternoon and stuck on the reception desk. For now it's just answering the (goddamn) phone, but come 3pm and the beginning of afternoon surgery everything will go bonkers. Thank fuck it's only to 6:30 and not 7 tonight...

(Argh. Surgery starts at 2:30. Bum. They've started...)

And I've got a headache. It feels like one of my bad blood pressure migraines - if my lips and the end of my nose starts to go numb before the afternoon is out then that's a sign I'll be in bed with an ice pack on my head, lying down in the dark all weekend!

The only good thing is that there's three more Anita Blake books waiting at the post office (Slay can go fetch them in the morning) and my CDs turned up today. The bloody postman could get them through the letter box! Two Gamma Ray cds (Majestic and Somewhere Out In Space) - thanks for getting me hooked, [livejournal.com profile] silicondreams! - and two Apocalyptica - Apocalyptica and Cult.

Well, I was on Amazon buying books (I could make excuses and claim that Slay has become addicted to them - which he has - but the sad fact is that so have I) and thought, ah, hell with it, let's have a little mooch through the cd section.

Bugger. If I'd thought I would have bought Rabbit Don't Come Easy, too. Nuts. (Saschaaaaaaaaaaaa!)

Right, must go tell the vets their people have started arriving.

Have a nice evening, people!
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I'm reading one of the Anita Blake novels [livejournal.com profile] rockfic gave me while we were in Asheville. And...

I dunno. I sort of like them.

But...

...they read like fanfic. Not bad fanfic, I'll grant you, but fanfic nevertheless. And damn, but is the main character a blatant Mary Sue or what? We'd probably call her on it if she ever tried to post anything at Rockfic. Ha.

The other thing that makes my blood boil is that she is published with this stuff and I, as well you know, am not.

This sucks salty donkey bollocks.

As does the terrible urge to write Anita Blake/Yoz crossover fanfiction. Jesus. I need help.

I mean, the books are just... clumsy. I've read fanfic set in that universe that's less clumsy than the original - and how fucked up is that? You open the book, start to read. Here-is-the-hero. Say hello, hero. Here is the main plot. Say hello, main plot. Here is the subplot. Say hello, subplot. Here is the writer, sorry, heroine being brave against Impossible Odds. Don't you wish you were just like her? Here is a plot twist. Say hello to the boys and girls, plot twist.

Do me a favour.

How does this stuff get published to gushing reviews?

How?

How?

And how can I get on that fucking bandwagon?!

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