After a battle royale to obtain the Aquacel AG for the leg--a battle mostly between my doctor, who thought of this as over-the-counter medicine and the Home Health place, who wanted medical justification for putting this on back order--I finally have the stuff a week later. FYI, Aquacel is not cheap. Fourteen sheets of it--I currently have six, ( Read more... )

In which I am owning up to some mistakes I made yesterday. After talking with amand_r, and checking a number of summaries of the episode, one thing is obvious. I need to throw out my TV.

No exaggeration. Here is a summary of Wednesday's Angel from www.buffyworld.com. The difference between this and what I saw is pretty drastic:

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...is bothering to write for NaNoWriMo worth it ( Read more... )

Cross one more thing off my list of things that I can write about. I did have an article up based on what I saw last night on Angel, but then I was told that no, what I saw in this case was wrong, and what I heard in that case wasn't accurate. I reported what I saw and heard, but I guess that's not good enough. So, I thought, fuck it, and I ( Read more... )

After the savaging of my latest review on ffnet I've made a decision ( Read more... )

After seeing AtS 5.05, I'm not really feeling very optimistic about AtS 5.08. I haven't seen any spoilers about it, and would read them if I saw them...I just haven't run into any. So all I know is that something big happens (wow, could they get any less specific?), Spike figures in the story (I would hope so, since he's a regular now) and Buffy's ( Read more... )

I need a punching bag. Or someone to punch. The Talia thing is still bugging me, and I need to physically lash out at something. Not an option, however, so I'll just write up the review of "Life of the Party."

( Life of the Party )

I already asked Ginmar this, but I'm going to ask this of anyone who reads my LJ as well ( Read more... )

I don't know when this became more a writing journal than anything else, but here's something else. This is a villanelle in iambic pentameter.
(I hope that will shorten the lines a bit.)

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I started wondering what it must be like at Wolfram & Hart these days, with Angel trying to do right and feeling that such this was futile, especially in view of the guilt he must feel for making a devil's bargain with the Senior Partners...and losing Connor. This poem--my first rondeau--is the result.

( Rondeau: After Connor )