Cleolinda everywhere

I think seasonal affective disorder is starting to set in--it's funny, because I go through this every year (by definition, actually), so you'd think I'd have the warning signs down to a science by now. For some reason I'd gotten it down to "January and February are increasingly bad," but I hadn't ever really noticed December. Maybe because December is shiny and full of cake? I don't know. But it's suddenly occurred to me that, in terms of weather, November is cold (well, sometimes down here) but sunny, and December is just crap on a stick. And, as previously discussed, I think I may be a reverse vampire solar-powered.

So I'm not feeling so good right now. The good news is, it's not really an emotional depression; that lifted after I got through my birthday. It's just a sludgy Let's Curl Up on the Couch and Watch DVDs Instead of Doing Fuck-All depression. Which, I mean, that's great, but when you're dumb intrepid enough to try writing for a living, you don't get paid if you don't produce. So I suck, is what I'm saying. Seasonally.

(To digress, a nifty trick I have discovered: if you add your own Livejournal to Google Reader, and then you create a particular tag for it ["livejournal," let's say], you can then search any term in that tag. And the full text of your entries will be included. So basically, you've got your own personal LJ search engine. Hell, you could add anyone else and search them, too. Problem: It won't show any friends-locked or privatized entries. But since the majority of my entries are public anyway, it's extremely useful for tracking down That One Time I Mentioned Something; it took me two seconds, maybe, to find the "I am solar-powered" entry.)

Hmm. Let's have some Twi-spam. I can't believe Twimania's still marching on at this rate (well... actually, I can), but it is, and it's crazier than ever:

( If you ignore me again, I KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE )

THINGS THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH TWILIGHT:

All 26 Coraline alphabet posters! (Scroll down for the rest.)

SAG nominations: Who got snubbed?

49 Songs Queue for 2008 Oscar. I have four words for you: "Rock Me, Sexy Jesus."

Eddie Murphy won’t be playing The Riddler; Alan Horn Clears Up Dark Knight Sequel Rumors. Everybody breathe, okay?

Is Baz Luhrmann Actually Going To Make a Great Gatsby Movie? This is Sister Girl's favorite book, Luhrmann. Don't screw this up, or I'm going to get another long, angry phone call from her like the one I got after she saw the Benjamin Button trailer (also based on a Fitzgerald story).

Fuck You, Penguin ("A blog where I tell cute animals what's what").

Oh, and also--the Young Wizards forums have been spiffed up.