I am not at all happy with myself for neglecting to post here so often, so I'm going to do this meme and see what happens.

So what have you been up to? / Major life changes? Same old same old?

I have a new niece! She is amazing and tiny and very, very fierce:


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I have to say, for a filmed version of what's basically professionally published fanfiction, that was incredibly lovely ( Read more... )

I am one-third of the way in, and I can say without hesitation:

YOU SHOULD ALL READ CODE NAME VERITY.

You should read it soon, so we can talk about it. Because. REASONS ( Read more... )

So long, Mr. Sendak (you wonderful curmudgeon), and thanks for all the wild rumpuses.

(Links go to, in order, NYT retrospective, Colbert interview #1, Colbert interview #2, & NPR retrospective.)

(I keep having to edit this entry; there's something in my eyes. Both of them ( Read more... )

So, this is out in the world:


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I am home for a time, trying to re-establish a routine, though it's a new routine, of work and school (and my boss just asked me, again, if I was finished with my school homework now). There are all kinds of things I could write about after the last month, several of which involve lovely people from this branch of my life and how much fun it is to ( Read more... )

A few days ago...maybe more, it's all a blur...anyway, at some point in the recent past, I mentioned there was a convergence of a bunch of things from my online history going on.

One of them was reading Sara Bennett Wealer's Rival, a debut novel by a fantastic writer who's been my LJ friend for...well, for about as long as I've had an LJ, IIRC ( Read more... )

I wish I would have had a camera with me on Sunday, when I told my critique group, "I'm reading a Christopher Pike book!"

But I had a reason, really I did.

A couple of months ago, the ladies at Forever YA posted about the overuse of certain tropes in Christopher Pike's work. It was hilarious, but what caught my eye was this:

The Eternal Enemy, ( Read more... )