While I technically have a lot to do today (and its already past noon, which is not good for my hourly schedule, let me tell you...) there are a couple of things worth making note of before I go batshit on this paper I've got to write:

i. Fanart Rec: _parttimeninja for the win - Please Roguey, don't hurt 'em.

ii. Real Art Rec: This dude is selling off his Gambit and Gambit/Rogue art collection. There is one sketch that I was interested in, not only because it's Steve Gordon, and X-Men: Evolution, but because it's in a New Orleans setting with the one blaring indicator that they're standing at the corner of Rue Royal - that balcony in the background. I e-mailed for his asking price. He e-mailed me back. I cried, and then I declined. (Well, okay - I didn't cry. Mostly because I know there are a few good artists I could commission who are more than capable of doing something similar - if not better. Gambit still has that bowl-cut after all.) Still... too rich for my blood.

iii. Right. Paper. Journals. Reading. Doing it. *waves it off* I'm having a hellish time trying to concentrate today...

iv. ...Because of this. (I hope I'm not the only one who continuously checks their hit count at the Pit to see how badly their work is sucking when something first goes live. Why, no, I'm only partially compulsive.) :P

v. BPALers: luckystar37 has a circle going for those super-rare Salon blends that you can't get online here. Check it out. I am very excited. Amor y la Muerte! Love and freaking DEATH with oppoponax!