Today I finished a reread of Sylvester, which was one of the first Georgette Heyer novels I read when I started picking up her books on your recommendation a few years ago. I took it out of the library back then, so I haven't had it lying around my house for the past few years for me to pick up every so often and refresh my memory by paging over ( Read more... )

I am totally poll-tastic here tonight, which of course means that there are lots of things I should be doing but would rather avoid. Also, sinsense told me to do this one!

You see, sinsense and I have been talking about setting up a shared LJ to do reviews of romance novels. We are both indecisive and have decided to poll some journal-setting-up/review-formatty ( Read more... )

I am wide awake right now. Work is going to be torture tomorrow because of this, and yet here I am, typing away ( Read more... )

.i. library terror ( Read more... )

Okay, peeps, so I just finished reading Sight Hound by Pam Houston, which was good, but made me cry so much at the end that I'm still a little stuffed-up more than an hour later. Tomorrow I'm going to swing by the bookstore and pick up another novel (because I'm savoring these last few days before school kicks into a higher gear), and was ( Read more... )

Am emerging from a week spent working on journals from my two weeks of observation in area schools - altogether, I wrote somewhere in the neighborhood of 60 pages (double-spaced, and without any real narrative thread, just a bunch of stupid observation exercises and my oh-so-insightful reflections on them, so it's not as bad as it sounds). I did ( Read more... )

( oscarage - it finished two hours ago but I don't know, maybe people taped it? when in doubt, cut-tag, say I )

Remember how I said that Tim O'Brien book was disturbing in the best way? Or some crap like that? Yeah, scratch that; it was disturbing in the worst way, actually. I couldn't sleep last night because I couldn't stop thinking about the stupid book. And then the cat sat on my head an hour before my alarm was supposed to go off, so I was operating ( Read more... )

File under Seriously Crazy-Making: Figuring out my grandfather's payroll thing. Aunt handed me one sheet of paper with a list of all aides and the hours they worked, the wages they were paid per week and by the hour. All useful information! Except some of it mustn't be correct because for a couple of the people, the per hour rate x hours worked ( Read more... )

I came into work at 9AM this morning and wrote "I need a Diet Coke IV drip. That's the only way I'm going to get through this morning. Clearly ( Read more... )