Wednesday evenings are for being a being nerd.

[seanan_mcguire]

Step one: Get off work. Go to Target. Buy microwave lunches for the next week, because Target is the only damn store in the damn Bay Area that reliably carries the kinds that I'll actually eat. Is it so hard for Safeway to keep Chicken Mirabella, Shrimp Marinara, and Tuna Casserole on their shelves? Apparently, yes. Yes, it is. (I'm only willing to eat like four kinds of microwave meal, and even I eventually get tired of spaghetti.)

Step two: Go to the comic book store. Engage an annoying patron in a vigorous discussion of why, perhaps, declaring "Fuck the Gemworld!" in a store containing, well, me, is not the world's very best idea. Amuse the counter monkeys immensely. The counter monkeys like me, as I am reliable, polite, and very, very addicted to comics. The counter monkeys have no such fondness for annoying patron, hereby referred to as 'the cat-toy.' The cat-toy survived our encounter, but did not linger.

Step three: Go home. Set the kitchen on fire making cranberry sauce.

Step four: Put out the fire.

Step five: Read Hack/Slash while eating dinner. After the dinner part of the program is done, ink and watch two episodes of Big Bang Theory (season one). Mr. Memory and The Human Labyrinth are now fully inked, as is the masthead. Most of the Ragnaroctopus still needs to be finished. But I found my zip-a-tone, so all will be well.

Step six: Process the final edits for my Grants Pass story, which is pleasant and nice and not at all disturbing.

Step seven: Muck around with my clicky Vampire Wars game on Facebook. Damn you, Jennifer, damn you.

Step eight: Make this entry.

Step nine: Retreat to the back room for Leverage and more comic books.

Comments

[gaaneden.livejournal.com]

Love you too!

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Thhhhhhhhhhppppt.

[pola-bear.livejournal.com]

Your cranberry sauce recipe does not say when to add sugar, which sounds like it would be the fun part! :p

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Just dump it in when you add the orange juice. DO NOT forget to blend your corn starch and add it straight to the boiling cranberry goo. You'll be very, very sorry if you do.

[songwind.livejournal.com]

Cranberries and dumplings! mmmmmmm

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it...didn't work out so well.

[songwind.livejournal.com]

What's the Gemworld?

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

The Gemworld was the primary setting for the comic Amethyst: Princess of Gemworld, published by DC in the 1980s. It was one of the few adventure comics of its time aimed primarily at girls. If it were being published today, it still would be.

I, like most comic geek girls of my generation, was totally addicted, and still love it.

[songwind.livejournal.com]

Ah, okay. I found that when I searched, but wasn't sure why someone would be ranting about it yesterday. ;)

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Oh, DC has been doing some stuff with it recently, and this guy's core argument was, essentially, 'why would anybody care?'

[herefox.livejournal.com]

*laugh* I've been poking at Vampire wars incessantly too. It's evil.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Click click click GODDAMMIT WHERE IS MY DAY?!

[the-wanlorn.livejournal.com]

How awesome is Leverage. It's like they made a show JUST FOR ME and oh my god the epic awesomeness that is Parker I can't even handle

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I adore Leverage. When Parker showed up on the screen, my friend looked at me and asked if that was the character I was ghostwriting for them. And you know this is the guy who did the Global Frequency pilot, right? Total win.

[the-wanlorn.livejournal.com]

Your fic is perfect, man. Perfect! :D :D :D HORSES!

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Horses make better. Yes.

[mneme]

Yay, nerds!

Have there -been- things in the Gemworld beyond the comic stint I read the end of from DC in, um, the 80s?

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Neil namechecked it once in Sandman, Zatanna's mother is from there, and there have been a few other drop-ins and drive-bys.