Geez. You'd think someone as obsessed as I am about calendars would always know what day it is.

Pretty sure today is Saturday.

After losing Thursday the way I did, I'm keeping close tabs on Saturday lest it slip away.

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A very nice plum of a job fell into my lap, which will go a long way toward solving some financial worries. It looks like my time will be tied up for about a month, actually, possibly a little longer. I received the notice last night about 1AM, so I stayed up to print out all the particulars and read them over. It's straightforward and the only problem I see is the possibility of repetition. It's difficult to write 100 articles about the same subject without falling into a rut, but I figure if I can write 80 articles on ethical wills I can handle 100 on SSDI.

I'm pretty sure I'll be sick to death of them by the time I'm halfway done, but if it pays the bills I'm not complaining.

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I'm ready for this cold shiz to be O.V.E.R. Truly.

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I'm a big fan of vampires, and have been since I can remember. Seriously. I've been reading stories, books, watched movies, television shows, researched them, written about them, dreamed about them...not obsessed really, although it might look like it (I didn't really realize how much I've been exposed to vampires until just now!) and I'm a fan. I take vampires seriously, can you dig it.

I don't want to be one, mind, I just find them fascinating. It sounds glamorous on the surface, to live forever, queen of the night, but what a lonely existence. And the whole sucking blood thing is rather icky. The vampire in popular culture has undergone quite an evolution from the myths and legends of Romania to the Twilight boobs today. You know what they say, inside every myth or legend there is some kernel of truth, and that, I think, is what fascinates me the most.

Anyway, back to the evolution of vampires. From mindless blood-sucking demons to incredibly intelligent beings, the vampire legend continues to morph and change. You have your Nesferatu, the ABC vampires of Stephen King, the Resident Evil interpretation, the lonely wanderings of vampires like Lestat descended from the ancients, Blade hybrids, Twilight pansies, and all manner of different origins, combinations, and story lines. I don't think there's been a "monster" that's been so written about or imagined than vampires.

And so, here is the latest offering to the pool of vampiric legend-making:



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I like Ethan Hawke as an actor (see Gattaca) so I might give this a look-see, although not in the theater. I'm saving my free pass for another screening of Avatar in 3D. :)

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Kk, off to working it. I think the first five will be challenging until I get the format down, but after that I should be in the groove.

This is me. Groovin'.