A Note to Campaigners

...and other folks with great blogs:

I am semi-illiterate when it comes to this kind of "stuff." But I am learning! For those of you who use Wordpress, how in the world do I follow you? I don't do the Facebook thing (I know, I know, but you see, that hermitess, do-my-best-writing-while-living-under-a-rock streak is strong in me!), and want the blog updates and info to come to my Blogger dashboard, not my email. I shall be looking this up shortly, but if you have any tips, please pass them along!

Following aside, I'll be listing the sites in the right hand margin under a new blog roll. I'm going to try and do this as I visit individually, rather than all at once. If I haven't gotten to you yet, never fear; I shall!

If for some reason you don't see your site in the margin, or my little blank icon in the Followers listing on your page, drop me a comment and I'll troubleshoot, just in case.



What I would look like if I
 were a poorly drawn computer
 cartoon that lived in Paint.
And didn't wear my hair
 in a mean librarian bun most days.
Which I do. So there.

 On to other business; a brief intro. "Getting to know you; getting to know all about you..."

My name is Jes. I have about a thousand nicknames, or at least a few dozen (that's actually not an exaggeration), but for our purposes, I'd love to be your one-name-only household blogger, like Cher or Madonna, with perhaps a much smaller dash of infamy than those two have in their makeup.  What do you prefer to be called?

I'm from the United States Midwest. Home of hills, prairies, virgin forests, caves, lakes, tornadoes, humidity up the yin yang, rednecks, hillbillies (oh yes, there is a difference in those two!), Mennonites, grocery stores and movie theatres with hitching posts, wide accents and wider towns, and super low cost of living.  From what neck of the woods do you hail?

I adore old movies, as you can probably tell by the quote, and of course, books. I'm also a huge fan of food, so if you like to cook/putter in the kitchen, be sure to check out the recipe posts. My WIP, other than the various unfinished short pieces on here, are my JUNOWRIMO novel, which is completely bogus and I'm in love with it anyway, and my upcoming NANOWRIMO novel. I do have a finished novel; Shadow Child, but frankly, it's crap, including the title. It's about a pair of incestuous twins, joined by a young woman, all on the road to individuation. Long story short, all hell breaks loose, and murder strikes. Total crap. Might pick it up again. Errr, yeah. Twenty years from now! What are your projects, scrapped and otherwise?

 In real life I can be a bit of a bit*h, but only when people are stupid and do things like trying to cite Wikipedia as a source for a newspaper article (oh, it's happened). That's just moronic--not to mention professionally inexcusable--to me, and it gets me all hot and bothered! Otherwise, I strive to be kind (or at least strive to remember to be kind!), and my normal temperament is determinedly cheery. You may think these personality traits are at odds with each other; I assure you they are not! When a determinedly cheery person blows up, all in-yo-face,  it's taken as a Very Serious Occasion, and people hop-to much more readily. I find this extremely satisfying. It's the only way I've found around the awful temper that runs in my family. What about you? What is it like to deal with you in "real life?"

That's enough for now; I look forward to meeting all of you!