Settling in

[cleolinda]

So I'm still getting used to the keyboard (you know how laptop keyboards are more compact) and the touchpad mouse, since I haven't installed my wireless ones yet (for some reason, I never seem to hit the M key on this one hard enough), but: LIFE IS AWESOME. Also, I get to stay logged into everything (I cannot even tell you how happy this makes me), and I have all my pet programs back, or at least the ones I've remembered to go download so far (INCLUDING SEMAGIC, HUZZAH). I'm currently set up in the den with the dogs, rather than holed up in my room the way I usually would be, and I kind of love it.

My cold is still pretty gnarly; it's at that point where you can tell you're going to have to get snarflier before you get better, you know, as it progresses through the Stages of Phlegm, but I'm holding up. My nose is itching off my face and kind of hurts, plus the chest congestion and all, but I've had it worse.

I'm trying to get back to work now--had a day off, as it were, to freak out over the new laptop--now that I've successfully delivered 2012 in Fifteen Minutes and survived the New Moon preview on Wednesday. I'm not even going to pretend that New Moon in Fifteen Minutes is something Of Which We Do Not Speak, because we've all known since they greenlighted the movie the very day after Twilight was released that I would be doing it. So I'm working on that--couldn't sleep last night due to congestion, so sat up and wrote about six pages on it by hand (this is not all that much, though), and handwrote a bit more this morning. It's really intimidating, not just because I've got the Twilight one (which turned out pretty well) to live up to, but I've also got the last one I did--2012, of course--to live up to as well, since that turned out unexpectedly well. (Probably because writing these for five years with a determined focus on getting better at it has... well, in fact, gotten me better at it.) So I guess you could say that the problem with working on growing as a writer is that you have to keep growing, and sometimes you end up rocking in the corner and twitching a bit because of it. But really, my performance anxiety isn't as bad as it was last year, probably because I've got more time to wrestle with it. Please, let me somehow find a way to see an early preview of Eclipse next summer, I've been ever so good.

Speaking of which, I don't know that I've seen this posted anywhere:

Oh, and we'll be recording the new Made of Fail on Sunday, BECAUSE I HAVE A COMPUTER AGAIN AND I CAN.

P.S. I'm a Master Sparkler Taunter!



(Zomg e-book! The Annotated Movies in Fifteen Minutes: Wizards!)

Comments

[dives.livejournal.com]

What the...isn't that...in like 7 months?! They really are just cranking these things out.

[greyduck.livejournal.com]

Fast. Cheap. Good. Pick two...

[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

Awesome. Glad to hear it.
Hope you get through the worst of the cold soon and can start on the downslope of clearing.
It's good that you recognize that the difficulty is not that You Suck, but that your past successes and accomplishments (and you have had many) have raised the bar.

[karintheswede]

First: Yay! for your new computer!

Second - the thought of a Breaking Dawn movie scares me.

[emerald-skies.livejournal.com]

Personally, I think it's going to be the most hilarious one yet. I can't wait XD

[greyduck.livejournal.com]

Probably because writing these for five years with a determined focus on getting better at it has... well, in fact, gotten me better at it.

I wholeheartedly approve of your growing self-confidence. *sincere applause*

Besides: That gives me hope that in a couple of years I'll have built up some mad webcomic-making skills. *wry grin*

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't know that it's so much self-confidence as self-awareness. Annotating the three Harry Potter parodies was a huge eye-opener--I know people have a lot of affection for the POA one, but my God, I wanted to take a red pen to it. I could easily shave a thousand words off it today. I mean, you could actually see a progression in writing quality over the three pieces, even if people like the first one the most. It was kind of painful to go back and see, actually.

[alliancesjr.livejournal.com]

Dayna and I are planning on Eclipsing together, because we just can't take it anymore.

We're going to get thrown out of the theater. Bet you five dollars.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

See, that's why I can't see it with y'all. It's srs bsns with me because of the Fifteen Minutes thing. Like I took NOTES on this one and shit. I mean, not many, but still.

[queenthesixth.livejournal.com]

After you posted the pictures of Camille last night, I had to leave my laptop and I thought how cool it is for you now that you can get up and not have to log out of everything and delete the cache everytime you want to stretch your legs. That would have driven me daft. Yay for new laptop!

[greedyskunk.livejournal.com]

Hooray for the new computer! (Be good to her, Lizzie.) Lounging with the dogs while you're still working sounds fabulous.

You really should get a press pass for Eclipse. I'm sure you can wrangle one in the next seven months.

[chulacabra.livejournal.com]

I was thinking the same thing. At this point you've been linked/interviewed by so many mainstream media outlets that you would definitely qualify for a press pass.

I created an LJ just for this comment

[fursplosionz.livejournal.com]

In my theater, the first time Jacobwolf revealed his **true** nature, I swear I heard a very quiet, tentative, "fursplosion!"(giggle giggle) I choked on my soda and whipped my head around, but I never found the perpetrator. Are you here? Are you reading this?? I heard you and we should be friends!


P.S. I'll probably delete this journal later for no other reason than I feel silly for creating it.

Re: I created an LJ just for this comment

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Aw, hee!

You can always keep the account to comment with and not really bother with it otherwise. I do that on a couple of sites.

[icewyche.livejournal.com]

Hope you feel better soon! I'm getting over a cold myself right now. It is Not Fun. (How can a single human head produce that much goo?)

And congratulations on your Sparkler-Taunter Mastery!

BTW, not sure if you saw this (http://io9.com/5407713/the-30-most-disturbing-twilight-products/gallery), but it made me think of you.

[mamapduck.livejournal.com]

"Also, Weitz's experience making CGI polar-bears fight comes in handy when he's making CGI werewolves fight, so "The Golden Compass" was finally good for something."

Hee!

That's a fairly awesome article.

[mellymell.livejournal.com]

June 30th? THER DOIN IT RONG! The total solar eclipse isn't until July 11th (http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEmono/TSE2010/TSE2010.html).

[flameraven.livejournal.com]

We're getting another total solar eclipse? Awesome! Last time I was in like 2nd grade and they wouldn't let us look at it. ): Not even though those special silly goggles.

...Dude. Now I want to build rockin' steampunk goggles just so I can wear them all day for the eclipse :D

[robinmc.livejournal.com]

YAY (again) for new computer! Boo hiss for being sick! Yay for being a Master Sparkle Taunter! You should put that on your résumé.

[elbales]

Yays, happy Cleo = win. You Master Sparkler Taunter, you.

[lylassandra.livejournal.com]

I kind of want to send Lizzie treats the way people do TLE so she'll feel welcome...

[sevenmarie.livejournal.com]

I loled

I also think that's a cute idea

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

I have recently started a new job and one of my duties is installing memory in computers. Today, I was handed a laptop to do such a thing...

...imagine my horror to bring up the desktop and find, all in pink sparkle letters, "Edward is freaking ahmazingly [sic] hot times (astronomically long string of numbers)" on a paler pink background, with a picture of the vamp in question staring soulfully off in the distance over the viewer's right shoulder.

I begged my boss to let me change the wallpaper to something, anything, but alas, it was not to be. *pouts*

[elbales]

I-- I can't--

WHY, GOD, WHY *sobbity*

[aquidis.livejournal.com]

That soon?? That's not a long enough recovery time from this installment.

PS. I totally yelled FURSPLOSION at the appropriate time. It may have come out kind of garbled, though. I was a little tipsy.

[moriahbard.livejournal.com]

Huzzah! Congrats on getting settled in with the new laptop! I hope you two continue to get to know each other and have happy times with the writing and the Twilulz together.

So my mom, who knows I love Twilight lulz, linked me to this: A Twilight test prep book (http://www.amazon.com/Defining-Twilight-Vocabulary-Workbook-Unlocking/dp/0470507438/ref=bxgy_cc_b_text_a) Have you seen this? What are your thoughts?

My reaction went something like this: "WHAT. --Well, at least it's helping them learn. But wait, where are they getting this vocab? Seriously, the only SAT/ACT-caliber word I remember in the Twilight books is, of course, chagrined."

[swordmage.livejournal.com]

WTF?

Greetings from Oregon!

[biomekanic.livejournal.com]

Even from 5 miles away, I heard the SQUEE at Bridgeport. The Twipacolypse is upon is.

[jabberwockpie.livejournal.com]

Is a Master Sparkle Taunter like a Pokemon Master?

[flamingtoilet.livejournal.com]

That poster's actually kinda cool.

[quitesometime.livejournal.com]

oh my god, how sure are you of that poster's validity? because I just realized if it's true it means that Twilight probably won't be at comic-con. I NEED TO KNOW, THIS COULD BE THE BEST NEWS EVER.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

It came from the official Twilight iPhone app. It's absolutely real.

(They might end up at NYCC, if not SDCC.)

Did you know

[mythicvictory.livejournal.com]

That you were totally linked and mentioned in the Orgonian online movie review of New Moon by Mike Russell. Squee!!

http://www.oregonlive.com/movies/index.ssf/2009/11/review_new_moon_better_than_tw.html

Re: Did you know

[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if that reviewer realizes how much of the stupid dialogue and lack of plot and overall Mary Sueness of the first movie is, in fact, direct from the source material.

[neko-chan.livejournal.com]

You... actually got called a Master Sparkler Taunter? That is so awesome. Damn, Cleo, you're getting so well known! A little jealous. And mostly grinning on behalf for... especially with the accompanying mental picture of a girl in master ringleader outfit holding a whip and wooden chair, goading on a crouched, snarling, and (yes) sparkling Edward.

[mythicvictory.livejournal.com]

um, just rediscovered the wheel, here...gonna go play in the freeway now...

[xerinmichellex.livejournal.com]

I didn't congratulate you on the last post, so congrats on your new computer! And you're so right about needing to get use to a laptop's keyboard.

Don't stress too much about the NM in 15 mins. Anything you do is awesome, and you can't go wrong with a Cleolinda stamped Twilight parody.