Wow, hello, journal platform people! It's been almost a year! You can always find me at
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Last week, I rather unexpectedly adopted a cat. Back in January, my beloved Shiksa died of a heart attack. I thought to myself, Two cats is enough. But Vincent and Theodore have been rather lost without a third -- without an alpha female bossing them around. And one of my close friends found a post about a DC-area alpha female who needed a home ( Read more... )

First! I would like to apologize to anyone who tried to access www.annagenoese.com or email me at anna@annagenoese.com in the last month -- there was a confusion with my hosting service, which has now been sorted. Please come email me and hire me to edit your awesome work (or just chit-chat, I am becoming a chit-chatter in my thirties ( Read more... )

So I have moved to Maryland, which I don't think I've mentioned here, and taken a very low-key day job at a youth development nonprofit. I am enjoying the job a whole ton, and not really enjoying Maryland very much (plus I am far away from my six-month-old nephew, which is hard). I've cut back a bit on my freelance work, although I still have space ( Read more... )

Oh, what a world, what a world. The kindle I've been using for the last several months was my fourth e-reader in the last year. Now it is broken -- it's doing that weird screen thing, and none of the hacks I googled have been able to get the screen to work.

So I need a new e-reader! What do you all have? What do you like? I had a terrible ( Read more... )

Earlier today, I finished Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
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As you know, Bob, my mom is a reading teacher. Actually, she was a reading teacher (specifically for struggling and/or reluctant readers, which is used as something both true on its face and also often as code for ESL students) for a million years. They are phasing out the reading license and switching all reading teachers to being other teachers, ( Read more... )

So I finally finished Slow River by Nicola Griffith
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Good morning! As is typical for this time of year, I've had a couple of clients drop their contracts. No matter how diligently I screen, no matter how much money they put down as a nonrefundable deposit, there is something about June that makes people totally flake out. That's okay, though, because I always overbook my July, so I can just do some ( Read more... )

So I'm in Swampscott visiting my cousin and her family. (It seems like I'm in Massachusetts more than Brooklyn these days!) She has a bunch of interesting-looking books on her shelves, and I'm taking the opportunity to peruse them.

The one I read last night: Best of the Britcoms: From Fawlty Towers to The Office by Garry Berman
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