If anyone needs me, I will be busy DYING
Mar. 3rd, 2012 11:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lizbeeI mean, it's just a very mild chest infection, and I started on antibiotics literally within four hours of the chest pains commencing, but DEATH. Accompanied by a mild fever. (I keep checking my temperature because my thermometer does this super-clever thing where it dispays your temperature with a different coloured backlight depending on its assessment - green, yellow and red. I'm currently in the yellow zone.
This is EXTRA ANNOYING because, while I didn't mind missing work yesterday, today is the March meeting of Fuck Yeah Book Club, and the book in question is The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner, which I put into the hat a year ago and have been waiting impatiently for it to come out since. Piking out does mean that I don't have to be there if everyone hated it and judges me accordingly, but I was going to make a cake! Alas, in my current state, it will be a CAKE OF DEATH.
Bah. I have showered, donned clean pyjamas, and now I'm going to go BACK TO BED with the next Trebizon book. Why aren't Enid Blyton's school stories available as ebooks, hmm? Then I could really have a nostalgia fest!
Incidentally, if anyone didn't know already, Nickelodeon has (gasp!) actually started promoting Legend of Korra with a viral marketing program called Korra Nation. On joining, you get emails about new content -- mostly concept art so far, BUT I LOVE CONCEPT ART -- and for sharing the links on Facebook and/or Twitter, and recruiting members, you accumulate points with prizes. (Which are officially for people in the US only, but I just got samples of the Korra soundtrack, and if I'm lucky enough to win one of the limited edition posters I'm just going to hope one of my US friends will let me give their address.)
I'm charmed, btw, to note that a lot of the promotional stuff has been happening on Tumblr. The way of the future, and where the target audience hangs out, etc. And one of the creators has had a Tumblr for weeks and there's been no wank, which is impressive when you consider the track record of other showrunners in social media. It helps that he just keeps his head down and posts concept art and sketches and occasionally his fan art for other shows.
This is EXTRA ANNOYING because, while I didn't mind missing work yesterday, today is the March meeting of Fuck Yeah Book Club, and the book in question is The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner, which I put into the hat a year ago and have been waiting impatiently for it to come out since. Piking out does mean that I don't have to be there if everyone hated it and judges me accordingly, but I was going to make a cake! Alas, in my current state, it will be a CAKE OF DEATH.
Bah. I have showered, donned clean pyjamas, and now I'm going to go BACK TO BED with the next Trebizon book. Why aren't Enid Blyton's school stories available as ebooks, hmm? Then I could really have a nostalgia fest!
Incidentally, if anyone didn't know already, Nickelodeon has (gasp!) actually started promoting Legend of Korra with a viral marketing program called Korra Nation. On joining, you get emails about new content -- mostly concept art so far, BUT I LOVE CONCEPT ART -- and for sharing the links on Facebook and/or Twitter, and recruiting members, you accumulate points with prizes. (Which are officially for people in the US only, but I just got samples of the Korra soundtrack, and if I'm lucky enough to win one of the limited edition posters I'm just going to hope one of my US friends will let me give their address.)
I'm charmed, btw, to note that a lot of the promotional stuff has been happening on Tumblr. The way of the future, and where the target audience hangs out, etc. And one of the creators has had a Tumblr for weeks and there's been no wank, which is impressive when you consider the track record of other showrunners in social media. It helps that he just keeps his head down and posts concept art and sketches and occasionally his fan art for other shows.
