If you can't tell, I'm a little excited, but at the same time, I'm super nervous. You see, I've done a ton of teacher interviews, and I spent weeks preparing for those, but no one called with a full-time offer, and I've decided to expand my options. The interview is a phone interview for a book publicity position at a big time publishing company, and I'm a loss of how to prepare. Unlike the plethora of sites out there for educators, there are no "commonly asked questions" out there for publicists.

So, I've come to you. Do any of you have advice on phone interviews (I'll be on phone in my car during lunch)? Do you know of any questions I should be prepared to answer?

For your time:

Feel free snark on dresses, cheer for your favorites, question why someone got nominated, play "Where's Rob", or anything else that floats your boat. (feed a tree if you please too!)

What do people that can't find anything new to read or watch do in a desperate yet futile attempt to distract themselves from rl angst? Surf the internet. Looking for, apparently, more angst. Here are some quotes I found, that completely express how I feel, esp. about friendships and life. Anyone wants to share more?

More interesting quotes in the comments. Hopefully I'll find some that are not this angsty

I have just realized that I am a serial series abandoner!

I LOVED Outlander, but never got past book 4. I felt book 4 ended in a great place, and did not feel the need to keep going.

I like The Mortal Instruments, but never got past book 3....just lost interest

same thing happened to me with the B. Dagger  Brotherhood series...they were all too much the same after a while.

Now-I am hesitating with ICED by Karen Moning. I have it....just can't seem to make myself read it.  I loved the fever series and Jericho Barrons, but I was hoping for a time jump where Dani would not be a kid. Many of the reviews have been brutal because of this. If there has been a time jump to when she was 16/17, I think I would have been ok, but I teach 14 year old girls!! I am pretty sure nothing happens, but these men are sitting waiting for her to be just old enough to pounce on??  I am just not sure.

Am I dumping another series?? Maybe I will skip to the book where she is older?  not sure.

Have you guys ever dumped a series? Even a series that you liked? or are you loyal? I do not seem to be loyal at all!

Funny $h*t Stuff

gifs, jokes, whateva

Share stuff that makes you laugh

Please and thank you!

This never gets old:

Today we'll go visting some cousins and I'll bring my copy of the Cosmopolis' DVD to watch, as they missed it, living in the country. But the point I want to make is this: the DVD (I don't know if it is already available on shops) was sold this week at a nicely reduced price together with a certain magazine .(Think of Newsweek or The Economist). Now, this  magazine, Panorama, belongs to Sivio  Berlusconi's brother and it is a very conservative weekly. I remember that in the US newspapers like The Wall Street Journal  labelled Cosmopolis as a sort of leftist/marxist manifesto, damining capitalism. Panorama's politcs are not that different and Berlusconi is all the time accusing everybody he is against to be a communist.

So there is a complete contradiction between the magazine's ideology and what it is offered to the readers.

I ask; would such a thing be possible in the US (or elsewhere)?

Evidently the owner thinks that the film would enhance the magazine sales, and business concerns prevail on political considerations.

By the way, our newspaper/magazines stalls resemble a shop, nowadays. With the different magazines you buy you can get  - adding a little overprice - bags, scarves, gloves, perfume, pareos, cooking implements, records, toys ... anything goes.

Is this something very Italian too? I have acquired many of those attachments in the last years, and I wonder.

Whoa the whole site has been attacked by italics.... or has it always been that way and I am JUST NOW NOTICING???

Hey Brits, did anyone watch 'World without End' on British television tonight?  I was looking forward to it (costume drama, some attractive men, Miranda Richardson is usually good), but it was a bit one-dimensional.  Opens with a lot of cruel violence and hints of father-molesting-daughter and other molesting, murdering pervs-in-power, all of whom shall meet their deserved end by episode six.  Whatever.   

What's good on television these days?  

Homeland still got your attention?  Reality-is-your-bag, baby?  Or are you still faithfully watching How I met your Mother?

JOHN: I'VE FIXED THE ITALICS, LONG STORY SHORT THERE WAS A CAMPFIRE WITH THIS: "<i" in the title.

You know how it often seems the original version of a song is the best?

Well, sometimes, covers can be brilliant.

Here are two different interpretations of a very well-known song.

Today is our very own Capricorn75's Birthday!

Cappie is one of the most loyal and supportive people in this fandom.

She reads and reviews like no other, so let's all wish her a happy birthday and spam her with one of the things she loves most in the world:

(this guy)

Happy birthday, Cappie!

Haha.

Oh dear.

Please?

(details inside - poem included!)

Hello fellow campers! Please don't hate me as I post this on here. I am a desperate 19 year old college sophomore who is dying to study abroad this summer in London. The thing is, its $4000 and I don't have that type of money.

I have been working since 2010 (so my senior year in high school) at a supermarket when Im home from school on winter/summer break and I have a job on campus. I can't afford this trip by myself. It is for my education classes at school. Taking this course in London is more beneficial then taking it at my own college. At my school, It should have been a course where I go into schools and interact with students. My school changed it and the interaction no longer takes place. If I take this course in London, I do get to go into the classrooms. I love children. I have always wanted to teach and volunteer every week at a daycare. 

What I am asking for is any type of help. Either a small donation or any advice on how I could raise more money. I have a donation page set up on Gofundme.com. If you want to help me out, PM me and I will send you the link. For those who donate, I will figure out some way to do a 'thank you' such as sending post cards or small souvenirs. If you have any questions about me or my trip or suggestions please let me know! Thank you!

(and I really don't mean to be a pest. I am to the point where I have been all over facebook asking for help. I would love to go and this is the only way that I can see that will help me besides my paychecks from work)

I know Kat097 usually does this, but the last one was before xmas, and I fancy one :)

So we're 11 days into the New Year, and a lot of people have 'Lose Weight' as a resolution.

If that was you (t'was me lol) how are you doing? What's the damage for over Christmas?

Get any fitness dvd's? Any tips to share for kicking off the new year in the best way poss?

We are now onto Week 11 of the 40 week challenge, are you on target?

Come in and share how you're going :D

(Also, I'll post a nice at home routine inside, for anyone who needs a boost - like me)

Yes, Campers, it's FREE FOR ALL! From now through SUNDAY...

So bring on your wildcard posts!  Talk about anything! Books, hairstyles, regional weather complaints, HOT MEN, movies, music, the way you still have your Christmas decorations up...

Okay, maybe that's just ME.

Just remember, like my pin-up girl here, 

NO NAKED BODIES and NO SWEARS 

on the front page.

Inside the Campfires? Anything goes!

I'm in the mood for EYE CANDY this morning...yes, LJ has a sweet tooth of a particular kind this Friday.

So share with me the heroes of books and movies that YOU think are HOT or SWOONY.  Pictures, please! 

And if it's a book w/o central casting... SHOW ME YOUR IDEAL for him! :)

Starting with me:

Gregory Peck IS Atticus Finch. 

Might not be HOT, per se (though RainyGirl1978 and I decided that he and Robert Pattinson/Cedric look quite similar about the smile on occasion) but he IS swoony.

And also him:

Robert Downey, Jr. IS Tony Stark:

Don't keep it all to yourself! Share YOUR eye candy!

Yeah...I kind of did a lot of tagging...

Hey all!

So I need some advice yet again. Come on inside if you want to see or help my confused butt.

Interactive part: Do you consider yourself a good advice giver? If you do, does your advice usually work?

A rec fyt (I literally wrote this tonight)

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8896824/1/I-Have-Nothing-Left

She was broken by one man and healed by another. Now she's 25 years old and has been broken once again. Isabella seeks absolution the only way she knows how. Little did she know, Fate would bring back her beloved. Though he was as broken as she was, nothing could keep them apart. Not even forever. BellaxDamon AU Twilight and Vampire Diaries. CHARACTER DEATH! :(

"Following success of Fifty Shades of Grey,

WALLBANGER by Alice Clayton sells 100,000 copies in first month"

"Fifty Shades of Grey and Gabriel's Inferno set the stage, and now WALLBANGER by Alice Clayton has surpassed both books with the most successful release of a former Twilight fanfiction ever. The title reached #2 on Amazon's Top 100 Kindle Bestsellers list, and has sold over 100,000 copies since the November 27 release. ...

Alice has recently partnered with actor Greg Grunberg , blogger Brittany Gibbons , and actress Keili Lefkovitz for a new show, "Have Boobs, Will Travel" that begins shooting in LA in January 2013."

If you're interested, the entire article is here.

Huh.  Well, so ... what do you think?  Do you care?  Will you watch?

Any ideas on what other "next big thing" will be plundered from the fandom?

I can't lie - I used to love to browse the books and mags at Target.  Why Target?  I dunno, my Target is kind of tranquil.  But I just can't anymore, it feels too weird because ALL OF THESE BOOKS ARE THERE!  And I don't mean that just in reference to P2P, but you would think that after being side-eyed so many times for my love of Twilight in general and Twific in particular, that this would seem like poetic justice but ... it just feels really weird. 

ETA some more food for thought:

"What I really think would be interesting to see at this point would be for a fic to sell from a fandom that’s been suppressed by the canon author — say, J.R. Ward or Diana Gabaldon. Stephenie Meyer was a fanfic author herself and was very supportive of her fandom. If a fic sold out of an unsupported fandom, would we see the legal issues finally brought to the table?" -- Cyndy Aleo, critic of P2P

source for this quote

So I just read this book, let me know if it sounds familiar.....

Troubled girl, victim of a violent attack. Moves in with her aunt. Wears all black. Doesn't talk to anyone, just wants to be left alone. Likes to bake. I mean, really loves to bake desserts from scratch.

She meets a boy, who is orphaned and abandoned in the world. People avoid him because he used to be all ragey and fighty and she thinks he has a force field around him to keep people away until one day, he actually comes to her defense..... He has an art form, she runs over to his house in the middle of the night and sits while he works.

She eventually starts opening up to him, and his friend. They fall in love despite their obvious unhealthy crazy issues.

Then she is forced to confront her problem, her attacker, seek therapy, comes back to him, they all live happily ever after.

I actually paid $8 for this book based on other people's rave reviews..... And yet, didn't we read this one already? In 2009?

I know you know what I'm talking about. 

The only thing missing was the unicorn. 

The actual book inside, let me know if you have read it,

 or if you have ever paid good money for a book that you thought, "wait a minute, I already read this two years ago in fanfiction....."

Hey guys! I've been out of the loop a little bit and behind on my reading. I've got a few completed stories to read (In The Debris, The Real Life of EA Masen which I started) but I need some more stories to put on alert!

Tell me, what stories are owning you right now? What story has you dying for the next update? I like E/B, romance, angst, just really good writing and nothing too cliche. What are the hot stories right now that i'm missing out on?

Thanks!