I am returned to California! Yes! Back in Australia West, Land of Slightly Less Poison But Just About As Much Flame! And believe me, it is good to be home. New York was fantastic, and I'm incredibly glad I went, and I would absolutely go again, and it is so nice to be home. There's less heat here. There's a lot less humidity. There's all my ( Read more... )

Please forgive the slow replies
To all your commentary;
Tomorrow night, my airplane flies,
And it's all rather scary.

Here. Have a list of fifty thoughts about the wonderful world of writing:

Fifty Thoughts On Writing.This was extremely challenging to write, and I am consequentially quite pleased with it, on the whole. Which is really a good ( Read more... )

I am, at heart, a simple soul. I want things that are orange and green. I want things that are pretty. I want things that are interesting. I want to play in the swamp. And I want everything I eat to be flavored like candy corn, pumpkin, or -- if you have some sort of culinary magic which has yet to be shared with us mere mortals -- both. Also ( Read more... )

Being as my cousins Victor and Lara are in town, I have been having an interesting time of it recently, GP enjoys feeding people who are actually willing to eat his cooking, and Kate is tolerant, we descended on Kate and GP's last night for an impromptu dinner party. I left work, caught the Transbay bus, stopped off at the Bone Room to get ( Read more... )

We have an Amy! Well, specifically, right now, Kate and GP have an Amy -- GP decided to be a God Among Men last night, and picked her up from the airport -- as Amy is unconscious in their basement. I went to bed alone after Supernatural, and woke up accompanied by a redheaded fiddler. Now that, ladies and gentlemen, is what I call a take-out ( Read more... )

Last night, at the general request of everyone involved (except for GP and the monkeycats, who were essentially innocent bystanders), I took Teddy and Tom to meet El Kate and the rest of the household. And a good time was had by all, save for the part where we finished eating dinner, looked at the clock, and it was almost ten o'clock. Lacking the ( Read more... )

10. This is technically a good thing about last night, but: after my Weight Watchers meeting last night, Kate, Cat and I went to the House of Curry, where we picked up dinner and brought it back to the house to share with GP. Hunt. And. Kill! We filled ourselves with Indian food and watched an HD special on praying mantises. Watching GP ( Read more... )

Yesterday afternoon, I set a land-speed record for getting from San Francisco to Berkeley, where Kate picked me up and whisked me away to Dr. C's. We had thought making my appointment would be tight but achievable. We were an hour early. And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why we travel with books at all times. (As it turned out, they were ( Read more... )

Well, last night, I packed up my things and left them by the door in preparation for clearing out of Kate and GP's house (which I did at five-thirty this morning, whee). I'll definitely miss having the easier commute to work -- just walk out the door and onto the Transbay bus, bam -- but it's going to be nice to be home, with my kitties and my ( Read more... )

...at home, after another overnight at Kate and GP's, this one to allow me to see Dr. James ( Read more... )