Tonight I babysat for my adorable 3-year-old nephew Benji while my sister went to a work event. He was very good! We read 3 books, and ate dinner (mostly) neatly and without major mishap ("I dropped a piece of pasta on the floor but if it goes on the floor that's okay because we can clean it up, Auntie Em!" he said, repeating what I'd told him 5 ( Read more... )

I just got back from Dragon*Con a couple of days ago, and it was crazy awesome! Yes, I'm a convention co-founder and a con-runner and I've been to a fair few cons over the last 6-7 years in one capacity or another, but never one quite like this (since I haven't yet been able to make it to SDCC, which has some similarities). Dragon*Con spans 5 ( Read more... )

You ever have one of those times when you'd really, really love to take some time and chronicle what's going on, but if you take literally five minutes out of your day to do so, you feel like the entire world will fall on you? Yeah, that's how I feel right now ( Read more... )

I am so behind at posting stuff, guys; sorry! But! Here's a quick update on thingssss.

First of all, I had my left eye surgery a couple of days before New Year's. Here is the quick same-day report on it. To update on that, I am pretty much doing okay with recovery, but for some reason this eye hurts more than the other did (I would have thought it ( Read more... )

My Grandma passed away on Wednesday, June 16, after a short unexpected illness of double pneumonia and sepsis. We all miss her terribly. She was an amazing, amazing person, a great mother and grandmother and great-grandmother, a strong, brave, loving woman, and much, much more. I don't even know how to sum up the 86 years of her life, so instead, I ( Read more... )

So Amanda Palmer played in Falls Church on Thursday this past week. I hadn't actually realized she was going to be in town, but the webgoblin's post alerted me to it, and I decided to go (even though I had some looong work hours going on this week). I am so glad I did. The show was fantastic. I've seen a lot of live shows (200+ or more, by now) but for only ( Read more... )

Wow, I've been a bit of a slacker around here lately, eh? I guess I can blame working 56 hours a week for that! And that strain of Martian Death Flu I picked up a few weeks ago. But hey, that just means a nice loooong entry (heh) about my recent adventures. Lucky you ( Read more... )

--> First off, we have cleolinda's The Annotated Movies in Fifteen Minutes1

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(i.e. annotations on three Harry Potter parodies she has posted previously)

Now available for download at Lulu.com

If you haven't encountered the original Movies in Fifteen Minutes parodies (and The Book), you really should check them out. And if you have (or haven't, ( Read more... )

Many things have been occurring around here, even if I haven't had time to share them.

1) I got a job! It's a contract job, i.e. temporary, but it is interesting and will keep the bill collectors at bay until I get a Proper Job (e.g. not temporary) so hooray! The people are nice and everything is good so far.

2) I got Matthew Good's new album, ( Read more... )

Despite the things that aren't going so splendidly right now (WHY HELLO THAR, SCARY DEBT) I've had a nice few days. Since getting back from the Discworld con my "social calendar" has been fairly nonexistent, but I'm making up for it since Saturday, heh ( Read more... )