Usually I avoid writing a blog entry after midnight, being ashamed of my late and weird sleep hours.  But it's time to stop being ashamed of so much of my life.  I am trying to fix the late hours thing, but change takes time.  You can't just announce that change is coming and expect it to be here.  I've been making sporadic changes, not even little ( Read more... )

I am deliberately making this a shorter entry than it should be.  For one thing, so much has happened since I last posted: I went to Connecticut to vote, which was a disaster; I went to IlluXCon in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and made so many wonderful memories with so many wonderful people; and I've been having an unusually tricky time with NaNoWriMo ( Read more... )

Well, I didn't do much this weekend, but perhaps it was exactly what I needed.  I really wanted to see Lindsay and Fatima like we'd planned, but too much got in the way and our plans just never got off the ground.  Perhaps we can spend some time together after one of the camp days, even though we're usually super tired by that time.  Anyway, aside ( Read more... )

Thursday I ran out of time to post, so here I am writing at the end of Friday.  We had a quiet Fourth of July.  Nick, Dad, and I played tennis at the elementary school nearby for about an hour and a half.  It was our first time playing tennis since last August and it felt GREAT.  We were rusty, of course, but that didn't keep us from having fun.  ( Read more... )

Today I was so tired, it's a wonder that I got through the day without curling up under a table and taking a 5-minute nap.  In the morning I was sorely tempted to do just that.  Yesterday I held off on taking a big nap (settled for 50 minutes or so) so I could get to sleep early and get a good solid night's rest.  Instead, I stayed up way too late ( Read more... )

This is my fifth year teaching at Creative Summer.  As a camper I attended Creative Summer for 6 years.  Wow!  As you can imagine, this camp is a really important part of my life--especially when I was a camper there.  It's an arts-and-crafts-and-dramatic-arts day camp that is so vibrant and inspiring and accepting, I looked forward to it every ( Read more... )

Yesterday I got back from a great visit in Pittsburgh.  Catherine and Alan are currently performing in a play about Lizzie Borden called Blood Relations.  As Catherine is originally from Fall River, where the Lizzie Borden case took place, she was very excited to land the role of Lizzie Borden.  She also performs as Bridgette the maid, since the ( Read more... )

This date marks the fall of the reign of Sauron!  Praise the halflings!  Praise them with great praise!

...This is one big Lord of the Rings reference, by the way, for those who don't get it.  I am pretty sure that Lee will.  In middle school I read Lord of the Rings for the first time and years later discovered that the day Sauron fell, March 25th ( Read more... )

At last I've finished!  I won, I won!

This year I won with 50,758 words (according to Word) but definitely the best of the three stories I wrote for NaNoWriMo.  I actually LIKE this one.  It's so much closer to the fantasy story I've been wanting to write all these years but failing to do.  And it's that fantasy story I've wanted to write even ( Read more... )

I put a placeholder post in for this day because I was too tired to write about the events of the weekend before (or was it the weekend before the weekend before?).  Now it's December 16th 2007 and I'm finally making the post.  At 5:26 in the morning, no less.  Hey, whatever works, right?

On Friday Lee and I saw Richard II performed at a church in ( Read more... )