It's time for me to admit to myself that posting is a habit, and like all habits, it needs active reinforcement. Thinking "oh, hey, I should post about X" and then not doing it is not active reinforcement. And a busy work schedule is not an excuse, since I always have a busy work schedule ( Read more... )

Last night I went on my first real run since the Chest Cold O' Doom at the beginning of September. It was a little rough, and it's rather frightening how quickly one can lose two years' worth of conditioning, but the important thing is that I got moving again. My running route is a little different in the winter, in the dark, and that might have ( Read more... )

( The Office 6.04 - Niagara )

So apparently my new fall TV is... a show that ended in 2002. How did I get to this point? Some deadly combination all of the fun shows being in the summer now (Leverage, Burn Notice); steady adherence to a policy of not watching shows that seem likely to make me angry (Dollhouse, Stargate Universe); and a total lack of actual fannishness about ( Read more... )

A deadly combination of late Monday night calls and super early Tuesday morning calls has not been kind to my TSCC watching and posting, but this weekend I finally got a chance to catch up on the watching part, and on writing up The X-Files, and last night's call was mercifully short so that I could actually finish the episode afterwards. Behold, ( Read more... )

You know what's worse than rearranging your Monday night so that you can call in for a 9pm conference call with India? Sitting on the line for 10 minutes waiting for other people to join and then realizing that nobody else is going to because--duh!--it was Diwali and the whole India office was on holiday. *facepalm* Thank goodness TSCC wasn't on ( Read more... )

I'm coming off of a major insomnia jag, and after a few nights of more or less regular sleep, I'm starting to feel like a human being again, but for a while there it was all I could do to keep my fingers plugged in my ears so my brains didn't dribble down my neck. I'm behind on a lot of things, including birthdays ( Read more... )

Last night I went to naominovik's book signing at Dark Carnival in Berkeley with cofax7. Dark Carnival was, as promised, the Winchester Mystery House of bookstores, a long, narrow space crammed with shelves, with steps leading up into more long, narrow spaces crammed with shelves, and the absolute last place you'd want to be in an earthquake, but one of the first ( Read more... )

( Babylon 5 - 1.19 - 1.20 )