Tuesday was very exhausting. Made it to bed at 10 pm. Eek! Unthinkable for my teen ages. Anyways work proved to be extremely active in things that need to be done and I was drained. To strengthen my fatigue the weather decided to send two thunder storms and I get incredibly sleepy, when it rains. I recall almost falling asleep standing straight on my feet.

I visited the friendly neighborhood dermatologist and she seems very happy with my face and prescribed me the full treatment, because I was on probation with the new medicament. It will last for the whole summer and I should see her in September. I will have to visit a beautician once every month and she says that the red spots on my skin will eventually phase out and melt into my usual complexion. Hope it happens soon.

I also had the pleasure to experience the wonderful, pleasant and kind service of the post office as I asked what it costs to send a book overseas {note the heavy sarcasm}. I blame the unbearable heat for the bloodlust and acid tongue of the woman, unfortunate enough to be bothered by moi, who remained ever so polite and sugar coated. I forgot to take the book today for another round. Tomorrow maybe will be a more productive day in that aspect.

I also sent my order list for the USA titles I die to have and will be receiving a list of prices soon on my e-mail and I will make my picks, although I already know that Gena Showalter’s new series will be the first to get. In the mean time I need to finish a few series I started and got the books like Karen Chance’s series, got all three books with one read.

Another task done yesterday was to buy an MP3 player and what a glorious one I bought: green and yummy. I walked for an hour and a half through half the city to get all this done and well my thighs hurt like hell from the friction and I guess that is what exhausted me so much. At least I managed to decipher it and install the software on my PC. It has space for videos and pictures and all that jazz with 2GB of memory on it. None too shabby.

On the writing front things look pretty much the same. I am almost done with chapter 13: “Chit Chat over at Tea Time” – mind you there will be no chit chat or tea involved. *evil g* But yesterday I was too exhausted to coordinate my limbs to write.

I am scared of Friday and Saturday. We have 653 people in our charge arriving at airport for their hotels and 433 departing from their hotels. I will be up all night and running, but I will have to get out of work on Friday to go to the gym, so Saturday will be hell for me.

Here is an excerpt from my interview with author Justin Gustainis at “Temple Library Review”Urban Fantasy Land”. Choose your pick. and “

8. No more asked about that one. In the novel the readers can see what an interesting concept of the demons you have. If I recall one was a mutant Teletubby. My question is how the heck that happened and will this quite innovative idea be developed in the following books?

The Teletubbys are evil, Harry. Surely, you already knew that?

9. Yup, I know that. Never go near them without a chainsaw. Did you find it hard to devise the magical system, which is Libby’s tool? It’s not exactly Wicca, but it has its own origins in culture for all I gather. Who helped you or did you rely on google?

Oh, I consulted a couple of witches of my acquaintance. They explained the origin of their magic, and demonstrated to me its power. I’m just glad they’re on our side, if you know what I mean.

At the end of this post I will feature my to-do-list:

So not much to tell, but I will make it a brief post this time. Monday passed with less work and enough time to finish my “Awaken Me Darkly” review on Temple Library Reviews. I am thrilled because I have two interviews done and I gain time to read at a more relaxed pace in order to keep updating TLR. I managed a review of “The Summoner”, which was okayish and interesting although I hoped for something a tad edgier.

“Down to a Sunless Sea” stretched a tad further than I anticipated. I guess the shortest books are the hardest to read. Although I have to deal with short stories, it’s quite tricky catching the line of thought in such an erudite language and elevated style. Because of the shifting from town to town I couldn’t pick up “Jane Eyre” and just when it is becoming interesting. No time for that really, which is a real shame.

Good news is that I am part of Urban Fantasy Land, which is definitely cool. I am contributing to a whole lot of places and it’s certainly a great pleasure. It’s just that I will have to work real tight in order to get everything under control. It’s super really. As far as writing goes I suspect that my novel will be completed around August or September, since there is not much time to concentrate on writing although I get some words done almost every day. Sunday was productive, although I had hard time with 3^rd deep POV and I get frustrated, but during the revisions I will have a clearer idea of how she will sound.

My friend with whom I shall go to the gym has exams this week, so heavy physical exercises will commence at Friday and although I want that hot sweaty male body reeking of power, I don’t look forward to the whole “no pain-no gain”. I hate pain. I fear pain. It’s psychological, but I must, because so far I don’t feel comfortable at all in my own skin. Now is the perfect time, since I do nothing of importance anyways like school and work is not as important at this stage of my life.

My other friend comes tomorrow from a three day rock festival at Kavarna our seaside rock music center, so I think that Thursday we will go with her to sign up for yoga and see when the classes are. I hope there are late classes or classes at Tuesday and Thursday as I wish to use Monday, Wednesday and Friday for the gym, while Greek remains for the weekends. I still need to talk to the teacher, but after I fit my exercise schedules.

In other news I bought some clothes yesterday at the new mall, so I had a major blast and ate a killer submarine sandwich. Anyways most of them were green and my mom wasn’t so thrilled with some of my choices, threatening me with a haircut, which I definitely need. My hair bugs me right now. Mhm, tomorrow I will steal some time to buy a new MP3 Player, which will have 2 GB memory and it’s black with green display. I fell in love with it. Yum!

Tomorrow morning will be my appointment with the dermatologist and then I have to figure out when I will visit a beautician for the face and etc. etc. etc. I think I made this quite the long post despite thinking it would be short. Mhm, weirdness. Okay, bye bye for now.

Oh, the woes of the working people. I swear I can barely do anything creative around here, since I work. Yesterday and today were pretty tough days at the office with massive scandals and changes and of course work. We still have our telephones cut, which makes my boss more neurotic and homicidal than an aggravated tiger starved for three weeks and electrocuted in a cage. Anyways I finally have a desk with a functioning PC on it so I can send reservations and print them with no problems. My machine hopping days are over with. Thank god for that, but work has been tough. These two days I did around 300 vouchers aka reservations, which usually contain three names, so that makes 900 names, surnames, arrival dates and so on typed by these fingers. Thank god for the copy paste button. This however leaves me completely tired and preoccupies my day fully.

The reason I skipped blogging yesterday was because of my exam results. I am overjoyed with my English exam: 5.91 from 6.00 maximum, but literature is a sudden failure for me as it happens I have 5.43 from 6.00, when the average from my likely intellectual friends is 5.67 and above. Heck my shallow friend that thinks only of shopping has 5.91. Friday I will receive my work back and with my teacher we shall see how bad I had written the essay, since from the test I scored a whole 98%, which leaves the explanation that I did so terribly on the analysis part that they gave me almost to none points. Can you feel the sweet sting of irony? Get it? Me writer + bad grade at writing = karma rolls on the floor laughing. It gnaws me inside, although I am quite thankful this grade doesn’t play a greater role in my application for college.

Still I decided not to be pissed and sour and went out to celebrate that we passed the exams with my gals over at dinner and then at a cocktail or two. It all ended aroudn midnight, because I was extremely tired. Brain fatigue plus alchohol equals conscious sleeping, so I took a cab and well home I was to sleep and well today I am on 6 hours of sleep with heat waves all over the city. Not a refreshing day I must add. Of course I have no time to hop around blogs and I can barely keep up with people. Blah!

{Artwork yet again from the ever amazing Wen-M}

So after another weird disappearance I came back. This time I was having major technical difficulties dealing with a very faulty Windows system, which all ended with a reinstallation of my PC and so on. Right now quite is going on in my life, even if everything is a string of tiny events. I don’t get to talk much about the tidbits of my existence.

Today I met my coworker at the office, who turns out to be the daughter of my godparents and well we went into major chit chat to catch up with what we missed around the years we have been out of contact. She is in the capital studying sociology and we don’t get to see each other much and we never were very close, but still very friendly to each other. Anyways it was quite fun sharing what happens with my life and so on. She is ecstatic about me being a writer and wants to read something of mine, which makes me think that I really need to edit my newest short stories, which sadly stay at hiatus, while I combat novel project.

Speaking of “Forged in Blood” I am on the final five chapters and Samantha is learning the ropes of being a femme fatale + bitch. She has it in her, just the transition from humility to I-can-kill-you-without-moving sort of aura is weird for her, although she likes it. Nearing the end I am seeing some loose ends mainly to deal with the other characters, which seem to fade away and I can’t allow this unfortunate sight. I decided to add a subplot with the second villain for the ending and well add some vignettes with different POV characters in the beginnings, but this will happen during revisions hopefully. They seem still too far away. I feel crappy today, so no writing sadly, but with a headache and upset stomach it’s best not to self torture brain. I will try to go to bed at 10 pm instead of midnight, which I usually do.

Hope that helps, cause I really look forward to ending this novel for three reasons: 1) I can show myself that yes, indeed I have the needed consistence to actually finish a novel, no matter how fickle and lazy I can get; 2) the ending is the best part of the novel for me, because I like evil overpowering women with sluttish behavior and knack for sadism; 3) I can’t wait to start my new project. Originally I thought of writing a paranormal romance of sorts with milder apocalyptic themes and more relationship with splendor of setting. However in my head formed three words after I hit my mom’s car: “Car Crash Dummy”. Add to that a horny possessive demon, a female exorcist and one of the Seven Deadly Sins and you get a weird tale that has to be told.

I also decided to venture out into a new medium that I always wanted to write for aka comic books. I have an artist, my darling model/photographer/soul mate of weirdness and art Svetlozara, to draw for me, while I write the storyline and such. She needs this too on her portfolio for her college application, so it’s a win-win. We are using my novella idea “Twisted” with the apocalyptic world and all. I swear I will write that one someday. I will send her comic book art so that she can start reading and practicing with the proper design. I have no idea when this will be ready, but it’s cool.

While we are the topic of visual arts: I am rescheduling my big “flashy” photo session for later in July, when I will have free Sundays for sure and till we figure out, where we can shoot in peace on Sunday, since people don’t usually work on Sundays. Before that one, we will do some classic black and white photos and one photo session with gothic words written all over her body. I want her to get them actually painted on her skin, so they look like tattoos and not use Photoshop for the words. We still have to figure out how to do this one.

With my PC back in action I have Movie Week resumed. I will post all in all 8 movies since last time I failed and I still have hard time choosing what movie is unique and specific enough to make the cut. The theme for the week is pretty vague, so I just choose memorable, strange movies with a different concept from the typical storylines. Today’s post is about the satirical comedy “The Onion Movie” ~ Be sure to check it out!

{PS: The always amazing artwork with massive fantasy proportions comes from one of the greatest artists for me Wen-M}

Well I am most slowly coming back into my routine connected with the Internet world and it’s quite hard as I still have to ease many of my activities around my two summer jobs (who would have guessed that I would work at two places, I would never have, how it happened is beyond me). So today has been the second official day for me at work at the traveling agency I work for. My role is to act as a medium between tourist agencies and hotels. Tourist agencies send me the data for the stay of the tourist as in what type of room, how many people, what kind of meals, transfer and flights. I have to simply take this data and enter it in a special program, which sums it up in a nice table with the needed numerical signs for the archives. After that I send the table to the hotel with the number of reservation and wait. That is simply it. Of course these requests are infrequent so I order pages in folders, buy lunch for the gang or run errands in the city. The job no matter how repetitive it can be is so far fun and my coworkers are all nice to work with except this blond fat cow that simply goes on my nerves.

I am wondering how I will manage to do all the fun summery stuff, when this job is from Monday through Saturday and I have an additional job as a translator at a five star hotel for the lectures of some diet expert on Sundays. I will be going nutty. I just hope that the damn diet program decides to leave the coast faster and get the hell up the mountains, where I won’t be needed. Hehe! ;)

Anyways yesterday was quite a busy day and I would have posted then, but my cooky friend Svetla called and we had the usual chit chat over a bottle of wine in the park and did some photos in the park as in an improvised photo session. I hope to get the needed pictures from her to upload.

Around this week I think I will be able to hop around everyone’s blog to make my presence known to the masses, since I said hi to all of those I could.

So kiddies I am back. I am not sure how active I will be from now on, because I suffer constant fatigue as if I am being constantly drained. Now with my new job starting tomorrow I have no idea how I will incorporate summer vacationing and doing all that reading and writing, while I will be stuck in an office.

Anyways I know I promised to post some pictures from the Prom, but it turned out that I couldn’t afford a camera. Blasted repair center, couldn’t get it working on time, so all my material will have to be gathered from the hundreds of other people’s cameras I have come to use on that day. Pictures will come later. Otherwise the Prom itself went perfectly. There is not much to say actually. We drank, we ate, we danced and we partied till 3 am. The hotel was worth its money and the menu was exquisite. I was on win the whole time in order to remember everything the next day and I got the pleasure to dance with all the important ladies during my high school days. I slept heavenly on a bed which was like a cloud stolen from heaven and was large enough to fit my whole size without curling up.

Now back to the exams. I am very pleased in how I faired in both exams. I made only two mistakes in my literature one and I think my grade will be around A, but it all depends how well I penned my essay. I am a bit pissed about the English one, since it was my best field and yet I managed to get sick and doing and exam with a headache and upset stomach lowers your mad skills, so in the end I made like 8 mistakes, which is not that fatal, but still I could have avoided half of them if I was not sick.

{PS: This amazing pciture comes from none other than Stephanie Pui-Mun Law from Shadowscapes}

I took two days of off air time and when I come back I get over swamped with information. It seems that for the two days I have been missing too many updated their blogs. My blog tour only finished with all the blogs on Blogger, which leaves my LJ people for tomorrow. I never knew life could be so hectic and I am so stopping adding people on my blog roll. I love new acquaintances, but I am getting a bit overwhelmed with the data. Anyways if someone thinks I am not showing enough on their blog, simply know that I am reading, but can’t afford to comment.

So let’s move to my life. Thursday got me drained with the German graduation party since we all passed the special German exam and now carry the piece of paper stating we can speak almost as good as a German would. The day put me in panic mode since I had no formal clothing and had to mix a strange combo with weird clothes. This reminds me that with the money from my summer job I will update my closet. Of course Thursday and Friday had me in another aspect since I went to a beautician about the dark spots on my face and I died, since she squeezed them and shocked them with electricity. Ouch!

Friday I saw my friend photographer/artist/sword fighter Svetla and drank wine in the Sea Garden among nature. We chatted about projects and how she was going to play into a replay of an old swordfight over my home city Varna in the medieval ages and I am so going to watch. We decided to start a web comic together and possibly create the perfect idea for anime and then sell it to a Japanese company and see our baby developed. But those are just wild dreams like my grand computer game scheme.

Friday brought many new books as well. Almost full list with cover art on “Temple Library Reviews”:
~ “Black Magic Woman” by Justin Gustainis
~ “The Summoner” by Gail Z. Martin
~ “The Blood King” by Gail Z. Martin
~ “Spirit Gate” by Kate Elliot
~ “Witchember” by John Lawson
~ “Brida” by Paulo Coehlo

I made a new decision. I will write my novel on a journal and then during rewrites revert to the PC. I found writing by hand to be more fast, efficient and gripping. The same amount of words, 1K to be exact, written on hand takes faster and I barely notice pass. My thoughts have time to fully form and my hand keeps up with my brain and vice versa. The PC makes my eyes hurt and I get distracted easily by Google. Bad Google!! So I am on the hunt for new journals and made my friend Alex, that amazing gal, to bring me some from her dad’s firm as they have too many, but I am not sure, because they have salamis on their covers. Considering her dad works in the meat product business is the bad side.

Oh, Wednesday was kind. Thank you, goddess of Wednesday, for being so nice to me today. Creativity wise that is. I somehow dodged through my bad writing time and scribbled the same scene in school. The dialogue is still a bit strange sounding, but from then on I managed to get inside Samantha and write the scene with the fear and anxiety. There is something in the old fashioned way of writing with pen and paper that lets your thoughts flow and develop in a steady pace, following your hands and while you are writing the sentences, other form fluidly without being rushed. I also was at school and had nothing better to do in literature class. We were discussing the biography of another author and he gave tasks for homework, which will give us final grades instead of a test. I am singing Hallelujah right now.

So I covered my mark of 1K, even though it’s in my notebook, still eligible and very interesting how my scene ended with the 1K mark. I always good at flash fiction, but this is ridiculous. Anyways I started reading a new book: “Dark maiden”, which is a paranormal including Japanese elements like fox demons.

I also posted a review on a very funny short story called “Unique Chicken goes Reverse”. So if you are interested, be sure to visit Temple Library Reviews.

Before I forget I did my first themed post on mythology on my “Garden of Art” blog. I really like these themed posts on cool topics that I like to ramble about. I barely have the opportunity here since it’s my writing and personal blog aka whining also. So different the feeling and yet exciting.