I am very glad tomorrow is Friday. This has been a painfully long week. Unfortunately, it's also been the sort of week where everything takes five times longer than it should, other people are not doing their jobs, and unwanted interruptions keep rearing their ugly heads, which basically means I'm still somewhere in the middle of Tuesday's to-do ( Read more... )

I finally feel back in the swing of things this week, after the whole holiday, travel, plague-recovery thing. I have real food in the fridge, which I actually have been cooking (though my stomach is rather startled at the sudden reintroduction of fruits and vegetables into my diet). Also, toiling away like a little worker bee, and while most of ( Read more... )

Lost is losing me. I don't know what it is, precisely, but I feel like they're just jerking me around. It doesn't remotely resemble the show I loved first season, or that I saw glimmers of last season. I'll give it a few more episodes, but I suspect my Wednesday nights will soon be open again. Which is fine, because there's always plenty of work to ( Read more... )

I've been doing a bit of procrastinating on the writing front by playing catch up with my reading. Mostly unpublished stuff, of course, but no less fun as a result. I'm in the middle of a really original fantasy with romantic elements that has me twitching to head back to the couch and finish it. But I promised myself I'd put in a few hours of work ( Read more... )

No doubt about it, my blood has officially thinned from living in L.A. I'm actually chilly. It's not that cold out, but there's been a wicked wind blowing all day long and it has penetrated to my bones. I'm dreaming of warm beaches and fruity drinks with umbrellas right now, and those are fantasies I thought were reserved for life in the Northeast ( Read more... )

Plenty has been said already about the circumstances surrounding James Frey's A Million Little Pieces. Rather than hash it all over again, I'm just going to add a single comment that really pretty much speaks for my opinion:

The Brooklyn Public Library has reclassified the book on their shelves; it now appears in the FICTION section. Makes sense ( Read more... )

I just realized it's been a while since I've posted. Things have just been so busy, between the trip to Georgia and then coming back and playing catch up on a million and one things. No rest for the wicked ( Read more... )

Since I did the book meme earlier, I now have this burning desire to go read some of the unread books stacked around my bedroom. Sadly, cannot, as I have work to do, friends to meet for dinner (or in my case, a milkshake), followed by more work. And then, over the holiday weekend, there will be... work. Reading, but still work ( Read more... )

A day late and a dollar short... I realize everyone did this days and days ago, but I spent most of last week napping on the couch after my run-in with the oral surgeon on Tuesday and so I'm behind with just about everything, Live Journal included. As for the tooth experience, it went fairly well. Not much in the way of pain, just sinus headaches ( Read more... )

It's been a long day, made longer by the fact that I slept in some strange position last night that gave me a kink in my neck, and I've been unable to turn my head all day. This made driving difficult, since it hurt more than I want to recall to look out the rear window and back out of my parking space ( Read more... )