All the RomCom of Qi Xi

I have had a really bad headache all day. I think it's 95% caused by "someone is wrong on the internets" syndrome, 4% caused by the weather and 1% caused by genetics.

rs_games is posting Round II. Why not pop over and give it a try? It's going a lot more smoothly than before. There have been some rather awesome stories. Especially by Team Experience Wins Every Time versus Team Why Is My Willie Hard And What Is It Really Supposed To Do?.

I have thinky thoughts on what being a mod is all about but I'll leave it for another day.

I spent the evening off either sleeping or reading the trashiest novels ever. The current one isn't even well written. SNARK AHOY!

In fact, ( Review of Soul Song by Marjorie Liu. To sum up - merman rentboy and that's the best part )

Final Verdict? 3 out of 10 if just for the crack factor.

The other one, I spent good money on, all of three dollars and thirty eight cents. ( The Nymph King by Gena Showalter )

Final Verdict: A surprising 5 out of 10. At least it didn't have a bunch of typos.

Finally, the last book I've read in the past day and a half - ( A Hunger Like No Other by Kresley Cole )

Final Verdict: 6 out of 10.

Resolution Reviews – First Batch for 2008 – 7 movies, 4 books –

( Ratatouille )

6 out of 10

( The Simpson's Movie )

6 out of 10

( Eastern Promises )

5 out of 10

( Stardust (movie) )

10 out of 10

( Stardust – Neil Gaiman )

10 out of 10

( Dragonlance – Dragons of Autumn Twilight (animated movie) )

11 out of 10

( Balls of Fury )

9 out of 10

( Pirates of the Carribean 3 )

7 out of 10

( Plum Lucky – Janet Evanovich )

10 out of 10

( Captain's Fury – Jim Butcher )

7 out of 10

( Morning Light – Catherine Anderson )

3 out of 10

I'm in the middle of the first book for fandom_reads so I will probably write my review after the discussion opens there. You have until February 15th to read Persepolis and join the community to get to discuss it with the rest of us. Join before then and you'll get a chance to pick the next book, too! They don't all have to be serious or anything.

Resolution Reviews – Same disclaimers. These are all obviously my own opinion. In addition, random points awarded for hot guys, points taken away for plot predictability. In other words, random.

Also – Spoilers abound. Let me repeat that - SPOILERS WITHIN

( Storm Front: Dresden Files )
9 out of 10

( Fool Moon: Dresden Files )
9 out of 10

( Grave Peril: Dresden Files )
9 out of 10

( Summer Knight: Dresden Files )
8 out of 10

( Death Masks: Dresden Files )
10 out of 10

( Blood Rites: Dresden Files )
10 out of 10

( Dead Beat: Dresden Files )
5 out of 10

( Lean Mean 13 )
10 out of 10

( Furies of Calderon: Codex Alera Series )
7 out of 10

( Academ's Fury: Codex Alera Series )
8.5 out of 10

( Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows )
9.99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 out of 10

( Ghost Rider )
8 out of 10

( Yossi & Jagger )
9.5 out of 10

( Bridge to Terabithia )
8 out of 10

( Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix )
4 out of 10

( Blood and Chocolate )
3 out of 10

( Children of Men )
2 out of 10

( Reno 911: Miami )
8 out of 10

( Pathfinder )
4 out of 10

( The Bourne Ultimatum )
5 out of 10

( Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead )
2 out of 10 **DID NOT FINISH**

That's it for now – I'm up to 36 movies and 42 books for the year. There's another 3 book reviews coming and I have 6 movies to watch this weekend or Blockbuster's going to get pissy with me.

Random update -

We've hired a new boss at work. She seems very nice. Very down to earth and friendly. I'm looking forward to working with her.

I spent all day attempting to get my payroll software to work because of the firewall installed so you can't even google anything. Which meant that the payroll software couldn't communicate with the payroll company to get the checks cut. Frustration central, let me tell you.

Got the rest of my week's worth of work done today because of the lack of internet usage. I have nothing to do the rest of the week. I'm tempted to bring in a couple of movies and watch them. Speaking of movies - I'm 25% of the way through my resolution 100. I have 3 more books to review (all of which scored 9 or above) and another 3 out of the library.

Also - anyone know what the movie title is of the movie where Kevin Bacon plays the pedophile in the woods or something?

Anyone know of any good browsers out there that aren't Firefox or IE? Both of those are banned from the internet so I'd like to get a different one as our IT person is such a fucktard she won't catch on at all. (No, really, the only reason she discovered the Firefox thing is that some asshat mentioned it to his boss who is also the IT person's boss) I had a recommendation for Opera... anyone second that rec?

I've fic coming but most all of you won't be reading it because it's het.

DL'd the pilot episode of The Black Donnellys and still love it, more than is healthy.

In a moment of weakness (financial and mental, is my claim), I agreed to dogsit for those chihuahuas that liked to try to bite me. It'll be 200 bucks for a week and there's a yard so I don't have to worry about diapers. Did I say it's 200 bucks? Cause I'm getting paid 200 bucks. *keeps trying to justify it*

*fails miserably*

I've missed chatting throughout the day with so many of you. However, I've now set up my gmail account to do that pop forwarding thing to my work email so you can email me instead *hopes*.

How are all of you?