(personal) NyQuil: a Love/Hate relationship

I love the fact that NyQuil LiquiCaps let me get a good night's sleep.

However, I hate the fact that NyQuil LiquiCaps mean I feel like a zombie the next morning.

I will be pounding tea. However, I'm afraid I might need stronger measures.

I will resist as long as I am conscious enough to.

Being sick sucks.

No more to post. *sigh*

(writing) Ponderings...

Is there a way to use someone like a Greek God character WITHOUT it being a deux ex machina?

Edit:

The reason I'm asking this is twofold. One, I just finished a book last night that had Greek Gods in it, and they were characters, and it seemed like every time the hero/heroine hit a bump, some god was there to help them out. I dunno, that seems like authorial copout to me.

Two, I have a demi-god (well, she is, sort of) that is the focal point of the other series that is the companion to Horseman, and I'm sort of hoping to avoid the whole deus ex machina thing. So I'm soliciting opinions about how to pull it off successfully, and if anyone has a recommendation of a book/series that does this well (especially if the MC is the god), let me know.

The only one I can think of off the top of my head is a romance by Roberta Gellis called Burning Brightly, which was the love story of Persephone and Hades. There, they weren't gods, really - they were mages, and there wasn't a lot of "well, I'm a god, so this is the way I'm going to arrange things."

I dunno, maybe I'm overthinking this.

(seasons) Metrics for 3/6/08

start: 6223
end: 8086

starting line:
"How's the view?"

ending line:
"Yeah." Nikki looked over at him, even managed a smile. "Let's go."

darling:
I should have stabbed him a few more times, she thought, taking out her aggressions on the plate of eggs and hash browns Vashti had just put in front of her. In the head.

**

Alex is a diva. And Nikki's in all sorts of emo trouble right now. Is fun.

More tomorrow. I'm going to see if I can get up at 5:30 am and write for an hour. I promise nothing, but I'm going to try.