Computer problems

Last night, after writing like crazy for a project that's due in a couple of days, I decided to take a little break. I closed all my windows and watched a movie. After the movie ended I was thinking I still had a little time to write a few more pages. Imagine my surprise when, after opening my computer I discovered my programs had vanished.
Thinking it was probably a virus I looked for my antivirus... only to discover it half-eaten by the damn thing!
Thankfully, none of the things I wrote was lost and most of the files on my hard-drive were safely forgotten by the program-eating virus.
My problem today is a little worse though... Apparently, even after scanning my computer with my new antivirus it wasn't able to find anything. So I uninstalled it and tried with another. Same result.
Conclusion? I think my computer is possessed. I'm going to call a priest very soon...

Doodles and WIP

~ WIP - Girl and Snake ~

~WIP - Tamed Dragon~

~WIP - Dreams~

   I'm not decided yet if I should call the last one Dreams or Lost in the Dream World. Eh... I'll figure out which one sounds better by the time I finish them. I appreciate any feedback.

Transition

  ~Transition~

   Felt like sharing this one. I like how it turned out.

  

   Also, I had my birthday this Tuesday... Felt like crap the entire time. I still do. I just hope whatever I have that makes me feel like this, is going to magically disappear by the end of the week.

   Anyone know any magical cures?

Meridian

My name is Meridian Sozu. I am a Fenestra. I have always shared my world with the dead and the dying. But I really didn't understand what that meant until I turned sixteen and glimpsed my own mortality. . .

Sixteen-year-old Meridian has always been surrounded by death. As a child, insects, mice, and salamanders burrowed into her bedclothes to die. As she grew, the animals got bigger, and soon they were finding her at school to die in her presence. Meridian became an outcast, labeled by her classmates as Reaper, Gravedigger, and Witch. Each death she witnesses weakens her body, and loneliness weakens her spirit.  

On her sixteenth birthday, she witnesses a deadly car crash. Though she’s untouched, Meridian's body explodes with the victims’ pain.

Before she can fully recover, Meridian is told that she's a danger to her family and rushed to her great-aunt's house in Revelation, Colorado. It's there that she learns the secret her mother has been hiding her entire life: that she is a Fenestra, the half-angel, half-human link between the living and the dead. It's crucial that she learn how to transition human souls to the afterlife and preserve the balance between good and evil on earth. But Meridian and her sworn protector and love, Tens, face great danger from the Aternocti, a band of dark forces who capture vulnerable souls on the brink of death and cause chaos. Dark, lovely, and lushly romantic, MERIDIAN introduces a powerful heroine who will entrance readers.

~from www.amberkizer.com/MERIDIAN.html ~

     This was a lovely book, a little dark, fun and beautifully written. I couldn't put it down before finishing it (then again, I do that with most books).

I forgot to put a link to the book for the other one (the Madison Avery book), so I'll repost that one with a link.

This is a link to this book that I found on the internet:  

Meridian - Amber Kizer 

This blog will not host anything but I will provide readers with links to books. I recommend you buy the book in order to support the author.

Once Dead, Twice Shy by Kim Harrison

- SPOILERS AHEAD,MATES! -

The number one book in the Madison Avery's series (not counting number zero:D - Madison Avery and the Dim Reaper - published in the Prom Nights from Hell anthology) tells the story of a girl whose body has been stolen by the dark reapers' hot and sexy boss (with whom she's already shared a kiss) and who is now trying to destroy her soul.

Madison is the new girl at school, not really caring she isn't liked by the popular crowd who mostly consists of bullies and mean, empty-headed girls. She doesn't fit in with the other cliques either though. Most likely because dying changed her priorities a bit.

Hide from Kairos. Try not to let the black wings get you. Get body back. Make friends at school.

I've started reading the anthology out of boredom and never expected to be so hooked on it. Madison Avery and the Dim Reaper made me laugh at the witty remarks and it felt good to read something new without the overused subjects.

I mean, the girl dies in the first book and she then proceeds to steal a very powerful amulet from the very guy who kissed and killed her. What subject is better that that? Throw in some light reaper material made of Barnabas, a fallen angel who is supposed to teach Madison about the amulet she stole and claimed as her own, a human boy named Josh who first acted as a jerk but quickly reassess his opinions when he gets to really know Madison. And of course, there is Kairos, the timekeeper/Madison's killer/boss of the dark reapers who wants Madison dead for reasons that keep you reading until the end of the book (don't worry, those reasons aren't used as a cliffhanger for the next book). Chronos, the leader of the light reapers, also named Ron (which makes me think of Harry Potter's sidekick) plays a big role in the story as well since he keeps Madison's situation from reaching the higher ups (seraphs) ears. Another important character, from my opinion anyway, is Nakita, a dark reaper, older than time, who ends the story with a bang (I really hadn't expected her to do what she did).

All in all, the story was amazing and the heroine's style unforgettable and I can't wait to read the next book, Early to Death, Early to Rise.

Here's one of my favourite parts in the Once Dead, Twice Shy book:

I stared at my amulet. It was beautiful, the black stone glinting with tiny silver lights at its
center like stars. I couldn’t look at the seraph’s face, it hurt so much, but I felt like it was
smiling at me. “Madison, fate—not choice—sent Kairos to kill you. Fate gave you
courage to claim his amulet. Fate caused Chronos to hide you from us. It has been fate
that angled a hundred moments to bring you here. And yet, you have to choose to accept
your place or return as you were.”
Still I hesitated from going back. “Which would you choose?” I asked. “If you could.”
The seraph laughed. “Neither, I am me. Choice? Fate? They are the same. I cannot see
the difference. It is why only a human can twist time to his or her will. When you fly high
enough, seeing around the corners of time is not a problem, but it makes separating the
future and the past difficult.”

 You can also get more info about this series at the author's website: www.kimharrison.net

This is a link to this book that I found on the internet:  

Madison Avery and the Dim Reaper

Madison Avery - Once Dead, Twice Shy 

This blog will not host anything but I will provide readers with links to books. I recommend you buy the book in order to support the author.

Valentine's Day

If you think because you're single you get to be sad, don't be.
Look at this video, the people in it have it worse than you:

This Video

Have fun on Valentine's Day!

In the beginning...

...there was coffee. Or in my particular case, soda, black as night and filling my system. My drug of choice if you will.
There were also crackers but they usually ended too fast to be of any consequence.
Why Zombie Desk one might ask. Well, because it sounded funny but mostly the reason is that is how I feel each morning before my daily fix (of soda or coffee of course, although I much prefer the soda). I feel as a green, decomposed undead running around searching for a brain before I drink the magical liquid that makes everything look better (sometimes clearer too) and also makes me look human (well, human-ish).
So, there you have it: Zombie Desk - a place where I can and will write about anything that passes through my mind (and I have quite the imagination): books I've read, movies I've watched, music I've (re)discovered, art I love, and many more subjects, including criticism of public transportation, old people, morons, the morons that lead the country, idiots and other things.