I've been having some tech trouble, and thus have not been posting as regularly as I would like my audiobook chapters of Pride & Prejudice. Nevertheless, I carry on with them, and hope to complete at least three more and then post those new chapters sometime this evening ( Read more... )

Thank you to everyone who's sending prayers to my cousin's family. They really need them right now, so keep them coming! They've pretty much alienated themselves by telling us little to nothing about what's going on. I'm not sure if that's better or worse, because I had a mini-panic attack this morning thinking about him and what could happen as a ( Read more... )

Phew! I just finished cataloging my classroom library books (not to be confused with my personal collection), and I just hit 253. That's a good booty o' books for one teacher! Between myself and Honey Badger, we should at least partially make up for the fact that our school doesn't have its own library ( Read more... )

My latest project for Sirius' birthday: an embroidered pillow with the elven script for "Mae Govannen" or Welcome/Well Met. Like me, he loves LotR and I'm hoping that he'll think this is pretty cool. I settled for a pillow because... well, I don't think that he'll appreciate a wall hanging as much as something that he can touch and use.


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Spent most of this afternoon being pissed off to the point of feeling physical pain (alliteration, I can has it?) because, after weeks of anticipation, it turns out I can't go to Tennessee for the Appalachian art festival. We were going to hit up the Museum of the Cherokee, camp out both nights, and go Zorbing on Sunday! But no. I'm a dunderhead, ( Read more... )