Arrant Nonsense

So, yeah. I had a dream where paulgenesse, Bruce Campbell, and I were talking about "Sherlock Holmes." I remember absolutely nothing concrete about the conversation, just that it took place.

I am a sad, strange little girl.

Tomorrow we're going to hop on a (commercial) plane and fly to San Antonio, where we will rent a car and then drive down to Port Aransas to see my folks. Interwebs may or may not be spotty for the duration. We should be coming back on Wednesday, loads permitting (ah, the joys of non-revving).

After that, not sure. Hubby is off until the 27th. We may go out to St. Louis to see his sister and then swing by his Mom's in Pueblo on the way back in the Cessna--depends on the weather, which is always iffy this time of year.

In writing news, I had my first dream ever about Ben last night, and it left me with such a vivid image in my head that I may just have to write the scene out because it was awesome. There are times I hate my brain; this is not one of them.

Yeah, I've been awake since 6am. I don't even know.

Also, I had a dream where I went shopping with Brandon Sanderson (mistborn). At Target. And we stayed there so late that I couldn't use my Borders coupon. Why I was shopping with a writer at a department store rather than a bookstore is a question for the ages. My subconscious is a very very odd thing. Also, as much as I enjoy Brandon's company when I see him twice a year at LTUE and CONduit... why him?

In other news, I bought an index-card case thing and glued it to my lapdesk, because I'm sick and damn tired of my notebooks and pens falling off it and disappearing into the Black Hole beside the couch when I set it aside. AND we have a new DVD tower thingy to replace the old bookcase. Now I just have to do the transfer, because I built the thing last night.

In other other news, the scene I wrote yesterday fills me with unseemly glee (considering the subject matter). Give me opinions, O Writers: If a character talks in fragments and incomplete sentences when he's stressed, and I'm tight in his POV in that scene, should (at least some) of the narrative also be fragment-y, where possible? I've tried it both ways and like it better fragment-y, but that might just be me being pretentious.

I had the most bizarre dream this morning, y'all.

As you know, Bob, I shipped the not!Iron Man fic off to a publication yesterday. And in my dream, there was a progress bar on the site that you could watch light up as the slush reader went through the story, and a spot for comments once they were done.

So, the progress bar gets to the end, and then there's the comment:

We would've bought this if it had been slash.

This, in my dream, sent me ranting and raving through the house. And when I woke up, I went into a fit of giggles. Because for this particular publication to say something like that...

Yeah. I just don't think they would. Trust me on this. I think it's that fandom has broken my brain, and I need to, perhaps, step away from the KKBB comm for awhile. Alas, it's sadly lacking in genfic, and I think there's, like, one Harry/Harmony fic out there. I'm not actually reading all the slash (not my thing), but there's apparently an osmosis effect going on here.

In weight-loss news? 122.2 this morning. *does the Dance of Joy* That, right there? Goal weight for WorldCon. Anything beyond this is gravy.

When I have dreams involving Keanu Reeves, OBAFU, HFA, and getting scratched by the teeth of a venomous snake I caught in order to take to a safe place--and having my tongue go numb because of that and waking up before I die....

Mayhaps it's time to step away from the zucchini bread.