In about a half-hour, I'll be departing to start the journey to California for my grandmother's memorial/ashes-scattering service. I'll be gone for a little under a week; I should be back on Wednesday night, hopefully. I don't expect to have Internet access, although I will be bringing my laptop.

Peace, y'all.

Capsule review: pretty good! Certainly, probably the best adaptation of the material we could get in film form, and I definitely applaud it for not feeling its length at all. It was long, but it felt like it was for a reason, as opposed to so many New Zealand landscape shots!! a lot of other recent long-runners.

( Spoilery stuff under the cut )

Bad news: I lost my job yesterday.
Good news: it was perhaps the most amicable, life-affirming job loss possible.

( The whole story )

HIRED!
In other words: I have a job! I'll be working as the Office Manager at DOVES, the domestic-violence charity where I've volunteered these past months. My duties will basically be what I'm doing now, but expanded, and (of course) I'll be paid. (Not much, but still: paid ( Read more... )

Season's greetings, y'all.

It has, for the record, been a good day -- gifts, cinnamon rolls, and a movie. I'm probably not going to do a swag report, but rest assured that I received from my parents two oddly thoughtful gifts: a flying alarm clock* and a car GPS system, "so you won't get lost wherever you end up."

The movie was National ( Read more... )

I've got a kitten. It's a boy, very tiny, and black and white -- a little too white to be a proper tuxedo, but still very cute.

( The long, weird story of why I have a kitten )

Today, I am 24 years old.

It's probably not going to be a very exciting birthday -- I have no plans and don't even have any interesting ideas -- but hey, it happened. I survived another revolution of the Earth, and that's always good.

Okay, so:

1) I am back from PAX / the Nebraska trip. "What trip?", you may well say. Well, uh... the reason I didn't post about it was that I thought I'd have internet access during it, at least sporadically, but that turned out to be a terrible mistake. So, uh, sorry I mysteriously disappeared for like a week.

2) PAX was pretty cool. More later.

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