Against all expectations - and breaking a trend - 2011 was a good year for me. I went beautiful places I had never been before (HAWAII!), spent time with friends and family, and reached a comfortable equilibrium with my job. It's not perfect, but what life is ( Read more... )

Just finished reading sarahtales's new book. It was . . . really good. Not as funny as I'd expected, although there were some good lines, and the plot twists were not twists so much as long, gentle, well-marked curves ( except for this spoiler-y one which I am placing behind a cut. )

Today is the Ides of March and I didn't even realize until I was reading the subject line from Neil Gaiman's blog and it said, "Beware the March of Ideas." And then I was like, duh. copperbadge had a really interesting post about it, but I am too lazy to find the link.

In somewhat related news, I am reading a very interesting book called The Radicalism of ( Read more... )

I am now the proud possessor of an apartment in Brooklyn. Sadly, it has almost no furniture in it. I'm stealing internet from someone else's wireless network. I've just had an insanely busy week of orientation to the New York Public Schools, most of which was utterly useless, some of which was interesting and very little of which was actually ( Read more... )

Hello world ( Read more... )

Well, it's been an eventful weekend. In addition to lots of running around, going out to eat, baking brownies for people and so on, I managed to read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime yesterday afternoon. I really, really enjoyed it. I might have more to say about that later ( Read more... )

O, flist. I love you, but you fail. Only five out of ten books guessed correctly? I have to say, it's disappointing.

Of course some of them were rather difficult.

( For anyone that cares, here are the ones that no one guessed. )

I'm trying to avoid having to write my theology exam, so it's meme time! And it's a BOOK meme!

( Abandon all hope, ye who enter here )