I'm surprisingly chatty for a zombie

braaaaaaaaaaaainzzzzzz

*ahem*

I actually slept last night, so my body was supremely unimpressed when I had to get out of bed this morning because it wants more, and it wants more now. I'm keeping it at bay with coffee* and work, but it may be a losing battle.

...I'm sure there was meant to be actual content to this post....um...oh yes.

There are mornings when io9.com saves my sanity. A quick skim this morning produced 5 Things I Learned About Women From the James Bond Books, Space Porn, David Tennant In Glasses, An Article About Fibre Optic Sponges That I Lack The Brain Power To Get Through But Looks Intriguing. Also, the new Watchmen trailer, that makes me cautiously optimistic about the film (I can live without the squid, I promise, just make it a good film, okay?)

I've got a long list of stories I want to write, as usual, as well as some non-ficly stuff. There's the Audacity tips that I picked up the other week, a meta on writing action (why is there not more of this? I mean, you don't have to Google very hard to get lots of guides to writing sex scenes - why is there no action meta?), and something that has the working title "In Defence of Gen" that's been brewing for a while now. That last one might not get written, because I'm struggling to find a way to put it that doesn't sound either terribly "entitled" or horribly snide. Still, it'd be good to get it off my chest...

I'm going to be doing a proper promo to sga_noticeboard later (so that the US is actually awake when I post) but the last of the artword stories has gone up, and it's the one that I started! Breathe turned out in a direction I could not have predicted, and the art for it is just...guh. Go read and see for yourselves.

Oh, and while I think of it, I'm not doing a "do you want a holiday card" post this year, for the simple reason that I'm going on holiday a few weeks after Christmas, and will send postcards from Morocco to anyone who wants them. I'll put a post up nearer the time. I am, however, contemplating the Holiday Wishes meme, if only because I'd like to see if there's anything I can do for you guys :)

Oh, and also, can I recommend as strongly as possible two new podfics: Rebuilding Babel is one of my all-time favourite Atlantis stories (seriously - language and telepathy and Rodney-centric. I don't think I have a button that this story doesn't push) and the reading is great. For something lighter and shorter, Torture Most Bizarre and Terrible is wonderfully silly.

That's so not everything, but it's all for now. I'm off to do things to invoices, contemplate my Last Fic Writer Standing entry, back up my LJ and mull over some other stories. If there's anyone out there who wanted to do the team challenge at sga_flashfic but lacked a writing partner, I have some braincells you can use if you want...

*ETA: Have switched to diet pepsi. No noticeable improvement, but I didn't have to get out of my chair to go get it, which is definitely a plus.

ETA2 Son of ETA: Since I either want to eat or buy everything in the whole world right now, I used my usual distraction technique of raiding the stationery cupboard instead. ( Cut for stationery porn )

...it's possible that I need to get out more...