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This post is part review, part personal commentary. I turned 32 yesterday, and my gift from my husband’s parents was a ticket to see If/Then at SHN Orpheum in San Francisco. I really enjoyed it, and it brought up a lot of reflection and thoughts for me, so I wanted to share some of them here. Please note that there may be some minor spoilers about ( Read more... )

Last week, my friend Able Christian and I recorded a bunch of webcam webisodes of the two old Scottish men characters we’ve been messing around with for months. The basis for these characters started when we were at a birthday party for Leela’s Artistic Director Jill Eickmann. It was a fun night of dancing and drinking, but as the night progressed ( Read more... )

Meet Jax Goss: South African born, New Zealand based writer. She’s the instigator behind Solarwyrm Press, which recently released its first book, Fae Fatales: A Fantasy Noir Anthology. Prior to starting up Solarwyrm, Jax won a highly commended award for her short story “Icarus” from Commonwealth Writers, and published a collection of shorts in The ( Read more... )

"Oh yeah, I forgot you're white," my Indian friend said to me last night as we were enjoying drinks at a pub ( Read more... )

Time, these days, has become such a valuable commodity. How we choose to spend our spare time - who we choose to spend it with - comes to mean so much more. At least, that's how I feel. I see how busy my friends are every day, and so, it means that much more to me when I see them making time for me. Especially in person ( Read more... )

Given the slowness of my reading speed, it's been pretty impossible for me to even attempt to read everything that is submitted for LJ Idol. I'm sure I've skipped over some absolute gems, including some from my favourite competitors. However, I think that despite that, there are some pieces that have stuck with me over the past several weeks, and ( Read more... )

There are 7107 islands in the Philippines. We limited ourselves to just one of the nearly 4000 inhabited ones so I suppose you could say we didn't really explore much of the country. We still explored as much as we were able to with our limited time.

Thursday, June 10, 2010At 30.5 weeks pregnant, there probably aren't too many women willing and ( Read more... )

I hosted one of these on hogwarts_elite a week or so ago, and I thought it worked well, so I thought I'd host it for my flist as well (and any random folks who come along - ie, it'll be a public entry ( Read more... )

Okay, I just made a friends cut. If I cut you and you object to this because you really want to read my journal, let me know and I might add you back. Just be aware that I'll probably be skipping over your entries rather than reading them. I don't mean offense by it, I just don't have the time.