Today is the Mondayest of Mondays.

Death sucks. Also menopause sucks. And moving offices sucks. And stupid-ass bureaucratic bullshit sucks. ::snarl::

In light of that, have an athletic Boston terrier.

In other news, I read Kate Elliott's Black Wolves yesterday, and anyone who likes GRRM and isn't reading Elliott is LOSING OUT. Everything I ( Read more... )

So a ton of stuff is going on right now. Job, home, vacation, all coming together within the span of about a month. Add to that the fact that I (foolishly) signed up for the Narnia Fic Exchange. This was a bad decision on my part. I hope my recipient is happy, but I feel bad that I didn't write the best story I could have: there just wasn't ( Read more... )

OK, take FOUR. This looks like it'll work, but it's so fucking predictable of me. Lesson: do no more fic exchanges or challenges, it's just too damned stressful. I had all sorts of ideas, but none of them made a STORY.

Anyway, once I got it down, I cranked through about 80% of it. Gotta write the last bit, and find a beta...

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ETA: This is the cutest thing I've seen in a while. Indiana Bones!

If you happen to be feeling complacent about your fitness, you might want to check out this woman doing a pull-up. Sigh.

I don't read a lot of short stories, but I will always find time for Ursula Vernon. So here is an awesome little tale about a witch and a dying possum.Well, ( Read more... )

1. TNG had cancer surgery yesterday, which went well and they think they got all the tumor. I get to bring her home tonight and she will look ridiculous because they shaved her entire butt. However while she was under they gave her x-rays and determined that she has severe hip dysplasia. (I knew she was having some trouble, but not that it was so ( Read more... )

It's Wednesday, so it's time for a reading update.

Recent reading: I burned through Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis for book club last week. It was suprisingly good, although a bit repetitive. It's also surprisingly modern: I guess the use of religion for monetary and political gain is hardly a new thing in the US, or really anywhere, anytime.

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So I've gotten a flurry of comments recently, from several people reading Carpetbaggers over on FFN, complaining about how the story is full of typos and missing text ( Read more... )

... well, that was a year. In sum: I got laid off from my job, my mother died after what was probably the most difficult six months of my life, and I'm still unemployed after four months of consistent job-hunting ( Read more... )

Okay, yes, the alternative is worse, but I really resent that, for the second time this year, I had to leave a movie in the middle of it because the cinematography made me violently motion-sick.

And, well, you just don't want to hear any more about that. (9 hours later, I'm still a bit shaky.)

BTW, it was Beasts of the Southern Wild, which I had ( Read more... )

It's hard to be entirely enthusiastic about coming home when you find some jackass parked his semi-wrecked car in front of your driveway. And the city parking enforcement office is closed until Monday ( Read more... )