We've received a literature submission to the RED contest. I was starting to wonder if we were going to get any. It's only mid way through the contest duration. We've got 3 more weeks to go. Today, we finally got one entry! *awe* And I got an inquiry from another writer about what to do with a piece that is twice as long as the 800-word limit. XD I ( Read more... )

Has women's tennis become so annoying to watch BECAUSE of the high pitched and prolonged screams every time someone hits a ball???? (I'm not even going to name names ( Read more... )

if other Kuro fan artists are suffering the same thing as me -- sort of ... the lack of motivation.  I'm frankly not the type to go ga-ga over dozens and dozens of icons made from colored manga pages or anime screen shots.  I seem to be seeing a flood of these posts lately and nothing much in terms of original fanart.  Heck, I can't really say the ( Read more... )

Just as I was ready to send a draft file to my client, I notice an e-mail from them that arrived just 2 hours earlier.  I took a look and it's basically a "Where's our stuff?" note.  They told me they needed this by the 15th.  Today is what?  The 4th?  I don't know what they're thinking, but according to my math, I have 11 more days.  *dumbstruck ( Read more... )

Sleep was disrupted once again!!!  No, not the cat pee in the middle of the night. XD  It was the father and his grown son across the street at 4 in the morning...

( All the neighborhood is a stage for their emo drama... )

Twinky was denied a use of the pet door (We locked it because of a stray that was persistantly trying to come in.) all night and somehow not only managed to forget where the litter box was, but had the audacity to use our bed as one.  (I guess she was PO'd that she was grounded and decided to let us know...)  Speechless... 0_0

( Wet stink bomb in the middle of the night )

They call it Rock-a-thon.  All they do is that they put kids in the gym with a rocking chair for each, with TVs, video games, radios, snacks, drinks, blankets, and pillows, etc., and let them play all day from 10 AM to 5 PM today.  As I dropped my daughter off at the middle school, the gym looks like an emergency evacuation shelter.  It was utter ( Read more... )

It's always unpleasant when I run into this type of people. It's my instinct to watch out for those and avoid whenever possible, but sometimes when you deal with people not face to face, it can be tricky to judge just what you're dealing with. I hate to say it, but just today, it proved that my gut feelings/first impressions were correct about ( Read more... )

( さすがに私もメゲました・・・。 )

Like most everyone, I've never been a big fan of doctors, but the situation calls for it.  I actually have looked forward to seeing one this morning since the pain of my leg injury hasn't been the easiest thing to deal with (and I have a fairly high threshold for pain to put it nicely...  Just dull nerves to put it differently, probably...), so ( Read more... )