1. My Novel Wrote Itself
2. All My Broken Ties Repaired Themselves
3. I felt healthier
4. The weather homogenized
5. My vote mattered 

Hello, LiveJournal.

It is true that my plans, as such, have faltered, all over the place, so much they almost can't be charted anymore, so I just have to make up some new ones and try to chart new territory.

Observing a documentary about the presidential candidates I noticed that in comparison all of my grandfathers have either passed away and/or ( Read more... )

This year, I have planned to write as much of my NaNoWriMo novel in Chinese as possible. I have all of my dictionaries piled up in front of the computer, and I recently figured out how to type in it on this computer.

My tentative title this year is "Nihao Maomi," which, if your Chinese is a little rusty since you haven't been able to go over due to ( Read more... )

My initial imagining was to write this new story entirely in Chinese, which as you may have gathered I don't speak very well as of this entry, through no fault of my own. I just don't live somewhere where CCTV is often piped.

I have a title and four letters written into it! Also, tentatively five characters. Um, er, four and a half if you count an ( Read more... )

She normally lives in California at this time. Yesterday we went "clothes shopping" (something I greatly dislike doing) and she plans to depart at sunset. (I mean, I think... it says 18:12 so yeah.)

I have yet to introduce her to Cong, but that would make sense, since I haven't even met him in person either myself, which Matilda finds poor practice ( Read more... )

My older cat is watching me from her spot under the chair in an accusing way. I might as well decide I am not going to finish The Dust That Falls From Dreams.

Eyedrops exist. They are difficult to self-administer.

I need to go take a nap.

It's not just in the ancient Chinese culture, like I had assumed from what I had heard about it before.

And Cora couldn't stomach such a topic. She is playing outside in the sunshine.

There is a map and it has the province I was in only darkened a little.

I don't know what to make of it, but I am also not feeling well.

My mother had told me so much about how hard that project was for her.

Maybe I'll wait for another time. I am somewhat happy with my Hadrian's Wall in the days of the Romans book. The drawings are admirable, although sometimes I do enter a strange hypnotic state while looking at them. I have only vaguely heard about, like, the Picts and stuff, but ( Read more... )

As if staring at that library holdlist would make it go any faster!

I don't think that requesting fewer items would speed the processing pace at all because of the number of librarians processing these requests on the other end doesn't change. I am waiting on 4 items. Right now it says the book that the library's little book club is reading is "in ( Read more... )

I think my younger cat was prompted by the siren blaring in the background.

Meanwhile, they gave me the slides for a sickle cell disease/thalassemia presentation coming up soon since I expressed interest to the people in charge. Sugoi, it seems like the doctors currently use a cancer drug to treat it. Is that right? Are they even allowed to do that ( Read more... )