I have received some very good news. In about two weeks, when the "t"s are crossed and "i"s are dotted and I stop feeling like someone's going to tap me on the shoulder and say, "Candid Camera!," I will post about the news itself. Meanwhile, squeeeeeeeeeeee!

And Rowling outs Dumbledore! And I found this fab and funny HP fanvid!

Also, anyone who would ( Read more... )

I'm working, honest I am! This is just a quick break!

Actually I'm going to do what all humanities students (that I know of) eventually do when deadlines press too hard -- plagiarize him/herself. So this post doesn't contain any recent news. Instead, it is a concatenation of accumulated dribs and drabs that probably make little sense either together ( Read more... )

Hehe.

It's the first time I've missed my self-imposed "post on even-numbered days" rule, but it was for a good cause. My OCD-voice is whining that I've ruined the pretty checkerboard pattern on my calendar, but most of me is jumping with joy because

I. Just. Wrote. My. First. Fanfic. Evah.

Yeah. Framefolly can now blow raspberries to the voice that ( Read more... )

Passing on the letter that
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From John Seabrook, "Game Master." The New Yorker. November 6, 2006. page 98:

Finally, I got a demo of 'Left Behind', which is a Christian-themed video game based on the popular
series of book by Tim LaHaye. You play a Christian in the streets of post-apocalyptic Manhattan, and the object is to convert as many nonbelievers as you ( Read more... )

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( A Firefly character quiz: )

What can I say? I'm a sucker for personality quizzes...
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I made my first icon! That was fun!

I feel like a kindergartener who just made her first paper airplane -- and it flew! Wheeeeeeee!

After 3+ years of lurking, I finally started an lj account. Should I be glad to be less anti-social, or dismayed to have yet another way not to write my dissertation?