November 2009
12 posts
Friday Fill-Ins →
1. Wait! Wait, don’t forget your phone. 2. CRASH followed at once by Mooooommmyyyy!. 3. The trouble is usually me. 4. Most of the people I love are many miles away. 5. With a…
This always happens this time of year. →
I regret not actually doing NNWM. I don’t think I actually wanted to do it. I think I more wanted to get something DONE. But, maybe I do miss the thrill a little (as jaded and grumpy as I am about…
Pandora Project: Runaway Story — An Eppie... →
Dianne and I just got the news that Runaway Star, the first of the Pandora Stories, has been selected as a finalist in its category (E7) Science Fiction/Erotic Romance. Unlike other…
Why is the QOTD always silly? →
Today, it’s about whether or not you’d live in the house of your dreams — for free, even! — if you knew there had been a murder there, or if the neighbors said it was haunted. Really, LJ? What a…
Because Dianne did it. :) →
1. What is the color of your toothbrush? Clear yellow acrylic w/ white rubber? 2. Name one person who made you smile today. Kiddo, as we were trying to find her a cardi to go with her skirt. 3….
Monday so soon?! →
<— foundling with only 3 days left. :( Tomorrow is Monday. I slept ALL DAY yesterday. I lost the whole day and most of this morning to a migraine. Ugh. I object. On the upside, my lesbian…
I feel like my icon. Again. & A Brief Peek at a... →
First impressions of Brian Kiteley’s The 4 A.M. Breakthrough: Nice follow up to The 3 A.M. Epiphany (reviewed here), which remains the sole (until now) book of writing exercises to get any use at…
I feel like my icon. →
A sludgy pink pile of gooooo. I wish I were a real… …and then I wouldn’t have to work. I hate when I need to get writing done and my brain turns into a puddle. /whine (On the upside,…
2009MHB: The Clockwork Muse by Eviatar Zerubavel →
Okay, so I’ve completely slacked off on these postings, for complex reasons that — surprisingly — did not involve being lazy or running out of books. However, now is as good a time as any to review…
the best way to say what kind of night this is. →
am having the kind of night defined by needing to pick up 4 things. knock 1 on floor under table. pick up 3. drop 1 on floor. put down 2. pick up 1. 2 slide on floor. pick up 2. put down…
Just one... →
…or two. Shut up. It was all lonely and abandoned. Shush. Do you want the baby dragons to die? Lie back and think of Pern! Yeah, now you know how we got our youngest dog.
NNWMarmot! →
Whaddya mean, I’m endangered?!
I was going to make a NNWM post, but then I saw this on Animal Planet… MARMOT!
Look at this face! I *heart* marmots.
Saving the endangered Vancouver…