Amie Stuart ~ On the Back Porch

Guess what’s on tonight! WOOT!!!!!!!

BOO on #7! Shame on Dave but I”m LMAO@#1. It rings eerily familiar.

BSG Spoilers below the cut

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For the week of May 29

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):

I love this excerpt from “The Seeker,” a poem by Rilke in his Book of Hours (translated by Robert Bly): “I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don’t know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song.” Here’s my own personal variation: “I am circling around love, around the throbbing hum, and I have been circling for thousands of days, and I still don’t know if I am a wounded saint, or a rainy dawn, or a creation story.” Please compose your own version of this poem, Leo. It’s an excellent time to fantasize about what you’re circling around and what force of nature you might be.

Hmmm maybe it’s…THE DRAIN! Oh and Mercury is retrograde until June 19.

Ooooooooo and i almost forgot, Rachel tagged me!

1. Pick up the nearest book.

2. Open to page 123.

3. Find the fifth sentence.

4. Post the next 3 sentences.

5. Tag 5 people.

Since I’m under deadline and not REALLY reading all I have is my Emergency Book (the one you never leave home without). Funny enough it’s CJ Lyons’ Lifelines!

Suicide bombing didn’t quite fit the impression she’d gotten of Matthew Kent earlier that day. But she’d met him for only a few minutes.

They arrived at her room and she unlocked the door, Trey still hovering, watching her every move.

I’m gonna skip #5

Bad insomnia last night–thank you Kara (who got her nose double bitchslapped by the cat at 3 AM).

I did catch up on some season finales including NCIS *WTF?* damn, Criminal Minds (OMG), and Gossip Girl *sigh* I still have about three weeks of LAO and SVU to watch and OMG did anyone watch the season finale for CSI Las Vegas? I nearly fell out!!!!

In other news NAILED goes on sale TUESDAY!

HANDS ON finaled in the First Coast Beacon contest (published) and I’m chatting at FARChatters today! So pop in and say hey!

My Freewill Astrology scope:

Are you fully prepared for your showdown with The Machine? Are you as confident as you need to be in order to fight for the rights of soulful beauty? Of course not. None of us is ever perfectly prepared as we go up against the Big Lies of the mechanical thinkers. But I do have great faith in your ability to prevail — especially if you strengthen yourself with this meditation from the book Less Than One, by Joseph Brodsky: “The surest defense against evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality — even if you will, eccentricity . . . Evil is a sucker for solidarity. It always goes for big numbers, for confident granite, for ideological purity, for drilled armies and balance sheets.”

I’ve always said I’d rather be a wolf than a sheep!

How about that American Idle last night? I’ll blog about it later. Overall Meh. Go check out Donna Kauffman’s recap–it’s fab. And I’m sure Karin has one up but I haven’t been there yet.

It was Neil Diamond night on AI last night. Overall, I was not thrilled. It’s below the cut for Amanda in the UK

Yes, I wrote last night….I’m also doing page proofs for MUS and some heavy WIP thinking. I started a scene for Screwed that feels like it’s in the wrong place. It’s toward the end but I’m thinking it’s more important than that–the heroine finds out the hero violated her trust and invaded her privacy. It means doing a lot of tweaking I don’t have time for but I seriously think it needs moving.

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Got page proofs for MUS on Thursday. After doing yardwork all day yesterday, I’m going to start on them today. The meter for Screwed will move–I’ll update later today after I dump the Alpha Smart. I ended up home on Friday writing with a sick kid. The poor baby has SHINGLES under his EYE! Which required a quick trip to the doc Friday morning.

In the mean time, here’s some good reading.
21 Suggestions
Astrologyzone
Fantasy Book Critic–to ogle the pretty book covers
Bettye Griffin has a stellar post up at Romancing the Blog

A strange thing has happened the last few mornings. I woke up happy. I know this might seem strange but normally I just wake up. The last two mornings I’ve woken up almost GIDDY. (I Should probably save this for my Monday blog post at SFC but oh well)

Strange indeed and I can’t explain the happiness (despite the impending deadline). Spring is here, the book is coming along, I have no kids this weekend, and life is good. I feel optimistic and dare I say, poised on the edge of something, almost as if I’m holding my breath….waiting.

So what’s the point of all of this?

I watched Eli Stone this morning. And if you’re not familiar with Eli you have no idea what you’ve been missing. Eli is a lawyer at a top San Fransisco law firm who suddenly begins having halucinations. All of which are geared toward him taking cases involving underdogs, helping the common man etc. It involves George Michael and has a real spiritual bent to it–because Eli’s acupuncturist/friend believes that Eli is a prophet. The truth of the matter is Eli has an (almost) inoperable brain aneurysm that they think are causing his visions–except his visions keep coming true. So, I’m watching last week’s episode–the one about the earth quake, where Eli’s boss (Victor Garber from Alias who I LURVE) nearly gets voted out of the company while Eli is trying to get the city to close the Golden Gate bridge because he believes this HUGE earthquake is coming.

So anyway Victor makes this wonderful speech about how every company, every law firm, every-body needs an Eli to basically keep them human. I had chills and I sat there watching it (and yes I know it’s TV *eyeroll*) praying PRAYING that Eli was right and that the earthquake really was going to happen.

Meanwhile in court this fringe scientist who also has predicted this earthquake gets on the stand and he said something that really hit me, so I ran for a pen and jotted it down.
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