Hello, internet! How's things? I missed you. 2013 was a quiet year, a very internal year, a year of Working Through Things and not talking about them much. It was better than the previous years, but it was still pretty...challenging.

Here's a round-up of the Good Things about 2013:
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So, the other week, I received this in the mail:


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Book trailers are evil. I was pretty excited to read Caitlin Kiernan‘s latest when it I heard she was writing it, but the damn book trailer has brought me THISCLOSE to breaking my Unread Bookshelf vow.

Which, uh, I kind of already did, last week - by accident! I bought Paula Gunn Allen’s The Woman Who Owned the Shadows, thinking it was a collection ( Read more... )

Thursdays are job hunting day for me. Also general tidying, grocery shopping, errand running, what have you.

Today, though, I couldn’t do anything until I’d finished reading Game of Thrones. I sat in bed reading it after LM went off to work, and aside from forcing myself to take a shower before I was done with it, I spent all morning curled up with ( Read more... )

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okay, so I was a tad premature when I claimed to be recovering from THE PLAGUE COLDFLU FROM OUTER SPACE. But I am better now, for real. Unfortunately the last couple weeks have been really intense, and they kinda ate my brain. About the most I’m up for at the moment is knitting very plain socks and watching Scrubs.

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( witty bisexual Brits beneath the cut )

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