dragonyphoenix | At least I've got lots of company...

Oh my, what would I give for boredom today. It's more like... agression, like wanting to play apocalypse with my computer and rip the damn thing to shreds. *wondersifthecomputerwilltakerevengeforthiscomment-probably*

Well it's sort of an aggressive boredom. Ran out of things to do at work, which meant I was stuck staring at the wall for hours. I could have been at home getting tons of stuff done. Very frustrating. Hopefully my team lead will get the code unbroken and come back from the other project he's on to review my design today. Else it'll be another pull out my hair day.

I've had computers do that to me. When I was in college, whole labs would take offense. I'd find a new lab, and things would be OK for a while. Until they chatted with the computers back at the old lab. ;-(

How many of them do you think might buy my book? :-) Actually, although I've had my unemployed times, I was never bored as long as I had my library card.

I dunno. What's your book about.

The quote is about being bored at work, although I can see the mistake given that unemployment is a big issue. I'd have plenty of things to do if I were unemployed.

Awesome icon! Now I want a Wash mustache. *grins*

Ah, I see. I don't get bored at work, because we've got internet capabilities during downtime, but I've been there on other jobs.

The book's about a well-known disaster photographer from California who comes to Indiana chasing storms, and butts heads with a state trooper who hates photographers -- and Californians. It's a romantic-action-comedy.

We have Internet too, but they monitor what we're doing with our computers. Besides, the Net does tend to pale after weeks and weeks.

You know, I don't know what books people buy, outside of science fiction that is. Even then, it's been a while since I've picked up something new. The book I'm currently reading, Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Cherie Priest (a ghost story), I picked up at the library.

Are any disaster photographers well-known? I know they're out there but I couldn't name one. On the other hand, that might just be me. It's a romantic-action-comedy. So you're watching Bringing Up Baby again and again for pointers?

I honestly do that. I'm currently watching Defying Gravity for the third time in less than two months because, well because it's great, but also because I want to check out how they're using flashbacks since a story I'm working on will have them.

No, as far as I know disaster photographers aren't well known outside of their own peer groups. Allie makes her money and her fame by publishing coffee-table type photography books, so she's taken on an Ansel Adams type popularity. Because of events in his past, Chance (the cop), who hasn't heard of her, thinks of all photographers as "reporters" and "scumbags" at the same time.

I haven't seen Bringing up Baby in years! I do watch romantic comedies, though, especially if Hugh Grant or Sandra Bollock are in them. I need some laughs with my romance.

OK, the coffee-books and Ansel Adams like popularity I can buy. I like that you made the photographer a woman and the cop a man. I had assumed it was the other way around.

There is a female cop in the story, but she's a supporting character -- maybe she could headline a sequel?

Confused. Romantic couple:
photographer is a woman
cop is a man

Yes?

Yep, you had it right. I was saying that one of the supporting characters is also a cop, but is a female.

My Mom was a cop, but she worked in the office (State Supreme Court) rather than out on the streets. If you remember the tv show Night Court, one of her jobs was doing what the short, sarcastic Court Officer did.

Ah, an officer of the court. I did some prisoner transports to the court when I was a jail officer, but I was only in that job for about four years before I transferred up to dispatch. Night Court was a favorite of mine, by the way.

an officer of the court. Yep.

Night Court was a favorite of mine That was a good show, although Mom always said Barney Miller was the most realistic cop show she'd ever seen. I should put it on my Netflix queue and check it out again. Just watched a disc-worth of the Rockford Files with my Dad. ;-)

Have you ever seen Lit-Gal's Case 1099 on the Docket--Flopping in Public (http://lit-gal.livejournal.com/175082.html); cross-over between Night Court and the Sentinel.

She's right, Barney Miller was pretty realistic!

I'm not familiar with Sentinel, but it was sure nice to see my old friends from "Night Court" again!

I hadn't heard of Sentinel before I started reading lit_gal, but I've picked up the DVD for the first season since then. Nothing to write home about, but perhaps later seasons are better.

I hope so. Alas, a new fandom is the last thing in the world I need right now -- although I'm going to watch "Hawaii 5-0" anyway.

Oooh, I didn't know they had a new Hawaii 5-0 out! Luckily I tend to write mostly to Buffy so I can check out new shows but not get caught up in writing for them.

Defying Gravity, which I may have mentioned before, is the most recent I've picked up. Only one season, but I've watched that season three times in the last month!

Not only was I a fan of the original Hawaii 5-0, but the new version has actors from Moonlight, Lost, and Battlestar Galactica on it -- an a guest starring arc by James Marsters as a villain. So yeah -- I'm there!

Oooh, that does sound good.

In college we used to play a drinking game to Hawaii 5-0. You drink for every scene of water, so water chases were really heavy for drinking. Other things to drink to as well, but I've forgetten them over the years. Finish off your beer for "Book him, Dano."

now, that would be an effective drinking game!

Oh, it was.

Oh, and you original series Battlestar Gallactica icon totally rocks!

Thanks!

Oh, the link I just sent suggests male/male sexual activity. Nothing at all graphic, but I'd just thought I'd mention in case that's not your thing.

It's not my thing, but I'm a Buffy fan -- I see it all the time. :-)

*laughs* Notice I didn't think twice about it until AFTER I posted.

I think fanfic readers are about the most open group there is -- except for when ship wars start!

I go hide then. I can hold a grudge pretty much like anybody else but I'm not good at arguing.

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