Louis Moinet (whom I've never heard of before, I'll admit) has made a pair of watches inspired by Jules Verne. And they've got a piece of the moon in them! Seriously, how cool is that? They've got a wonderful steampunk look to them too.

Now that it's January 1st, I can say I wrote The Spring Thaw for jesidres, and jesidres wrote the lovely Symbiotic Nature for me. I'd wondered when I saw that there were all of three Mushishi stories this year if maybe my recipent and I had gotten assigned each other. And it turns out we were! It is a funny old world sometimes ( Read more... )

Eeee, my story! It is wonderful and perfect and I love it lots and lots! Symbiotic Nature was written just for me, and it has Tanyuu and Ginko and musings about the nature of mushi and humans and how those two worlds interect. It's everything I could have hoped for ( Read more... )

...I think I've finished my Yuletide story. \o/! All it needs is a title, summary, and final editing to make sure I haven't missed anything. I'm rather pleased with it myself and I think my recipient will like it, so that's all I really care about. Hopefully I will still like it just as well in the morning ( Read more... )

I got my Yuletide assignment, yay! And I'm totally psyched about it too. I've got an idea that I think will be really neat, but I need to review the canon before I can begin writing ( Read more... )

Yuletide 2008 sign-ups opened today, so now I get to agonize about what I'm offering to write. The requests were fairly easy to decide this year, although now I have to figure out what I want to write as prompts for them ( Read more... )

Hee, so I first heard about this show ten minutes before the premiere aired, and I am glad I did! It's an alternative take on the superhero genre, sort of mainstream superheroes meets Men in Black. And it is fun! And funny! And the main female character is a total geek. Like, she plays video games and has opinions on which X-Men run is the ( Read more... )

This is the first stretch of time I've been able to have to myself today, although it was good seeing family. And of course in my first bit of free time, I read my Yuletide stories. (I got a story plus a treat! I am amazed and awed!) Honestly, it was really hard to not sneak away during the day to read them. But I stayed strong because I ( Read more... )

Oh my. Having seen the premiere episode, I gotta say that it looks like it will be just as fabulous as the original. A contestant has already broken down crying, and it looks like there will be more crying next week. There were ugly clothes! And pretty clothes! And bitchery with just a touch of drama! So fantastic ( Read more... )

Oooh, they're going to film two more Donald Strachey Mysteries, Ice Blues and On the Other Hand, Death, that'll be out in 2008. Yay!