• Loose leaf rose tea. I just bought two ounces of it at an imports store in Pittsburgh -- it's black tea with rose petals and a couple of other ingredients that were on the big cannister but are not on the label, phooey. At any rate, it is delightful and I feel as though I am in a fairy tale when I drink it. (I love rose flavour -- it tastes exactly ( Read more... )

Why hello there, internet. Did I fall into a wormhole while marathoning Fringe? I could have sworn that it hadn't been nearly so long since I'd posted.

I'm very up and down lately, which may be part of the problem; I've been fighting off what might be classified as miniature panic attacks (I'm hesitant to call them that, because... they're little, ( Read more... )

I keep procrastinating on posting because I've been procrastinating on Other Things and didn't want to not have a status report... but I am actually working on it. So. There's that.

These last several days have felt like autumn, and I have been revelling -- baking great batches of gingersnaps (dark and spicy and chewy and addictive), drinking ( Read more... )

Oddly enough, I had actually planned to Study today -- I snatched up a whole pile of books about books and reading and storytelling at the library, including Reading Lolita in Tehran, which is gorgeous and heartbreaking, and I meant to read them (in a skimming sort of way) and dash down notes and try to draft a narrower focus. But as fate would ( Read more... )

nghhh I have Tolkien meta and Prisoner of Azkaban The Movie meta and The Novel meta and I want to write it all and why do I feel so busy this is absurd. Of course, there is the whole thing where I have to write and compose or at least re-arrange a new song every day through Saturday, which I admit is thoroughly my own fault, and also it is good for ( Read more... )

WOW I AM ALL BUSY OR SOMETHING WHAT IS GOING ON.

Yeah, so, brief update before I scurry off to bed with fresh mint brownies and Dollfreakinghouse. Today! I was busy because I slept in after staying up till two watching Prisoner of Azkaban (which, unlike the first two Harry Potter films, I genuinely loved, and I kind of want to meta on that later ( Read more... )