Lyric Meme Answers

About a week ago, I posted up a lyric meme (quoting a favourite line from random mp3s - or in my case, random tracks from the CD collection I have at work!). Here are the answers...

1. You can grin but you can't hide/All the emptiness inside
Del Ametri - Spit in the Rain (wasn't surprised that no-one got this; Del Ametri are a fairly obscure British band)

2. Now I will tell you what I'm going to do
Evanescence - Going Under

3. I thought I caught his whisper/later that same year
Mike and the Mechanics - The Living Years (I did think someone might get this - it's a fairly ubiquitous 80s song!)

4. It wasn't the rain/that made a difference/I could have sworn it wasn't me
A-ha - I've Been Losing You (I was surprised when antigone_ks got this one - great taste in music, though :))

5. You walk up on the highwire/you're dancer in thin ice
Dire Straits - Love Over Gold

6. I want to run/I want to hide/I want to tear down these walls/that hold me inside
U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name

7. It ain't karma/it ain't luck/me I just don't give a...
Bon Jovi - Bounce

8. You're beautiful/you're cynical/you always make a scene
Goo Goo Dolls - Dizzy

9. I'm not like all the other girls/that you used to know
Garbage - You Look So Fine (another one I was a little surprised no-one got)

10. Every single night the same arrangement/I go out and fight the fight
Buffy - Going Through The Motions

Any there you're kicking yourselves over?

Good News and Not So Good News

Good news: The first research tome arrived safe and sound this morning (at least a day early, on Amazon's estimates!) so I can crack on and write the intervening chapters between nine and where-ever-the-heck I'm actually at (I think it's going to prove to be around about chapter fourteenish - but I'm not casting that into stone just yet, on the basis that my work tends to sprout like dandilions fed on coffee*) once I've read it over.

Not so good news: Work is about to go completely nuts. We've got two projects two parts done that I'm liable to be working on for completion purposes, probably before the end of this month, and then there are South African Affair, who need their 2004/5 site doing by the end of this month. There's also some work pending for the other 'Affair' websites (that's five more sites)...and there are probably a few other things kicking around that'll need doing too.

Urk.

Oh, and did I mention my boss goes on vacation for the last week of May/first week of June?

Fun. Not.

All of which means, I'm liable to not be doing too much in the way of writing at work, which means my writing speed will be cut :( And I had been hoping to get Shadow Games done by the end of June...