Sorry for the long silence!

Ugh... I've just been insanely busy at work: There's been a lot of cleaning fluid and mops come down the conveyor belt, so I'm assuming everyone's gearing up to do their spring cleaning.

Thus, it takes me a little while to cool down once I get home, thus I haven't been up to much beyond work and that Live Event in the MxO this weekend, which explains why sieges has been updating a heck of a lot more than I have the past few days.

Well, I've been reading Arthur Golden's "Memoirs of a Geisha" during odd moments; haven't seen the movie yet, but that's on the list of stuff to rent soon. Wow... what an exquisite book! Makes you realize how tough it is/was to be a geisha, and it only makes these lovely women all the more priceless in my eyes.

Speaking of books, a shipper of the Damn Book showed up in my workplace. I didn't see it until after I'd punched out for the day, on Wednesday, and it was all I could do to keep from accidently-on purpose catching my cloak on it and knocking it over. But I restrained myself. I *did* however come up with an idea for an anti-Damn Book icon, and it might just be an animated one: a pic of Tom Hanks as the Gary Stu, captioned "IM GARY STU!!!!1111", a pic of The French Girl, captioned "JE SUIS MARIE-SUZETTE!!1111", then a panel saying "So Dumb The Con of Dan". I just gotta download the animated GIF-making software.

Paradigm Shift entry to come...