My Japanese final exam is tonight, and then I am FREE for winter break! For a definition of "free" that of course entails still having to go to work, and not being done with Yuletide yet, and traveling for holidays, and so forth, but whatever. The point is that I will soon have more time in the evenings to do things I've been putting off, like ( Read more... )

Back from Dragon*Con! It was, as ever, enormously fun. I spent the whole weekend running around, mostly in costume, with occasional breaks to flop in hotel rooms and mock the tv with friends; on the last day, my room (the ROOM OF REVOLUTION!, we declared ourselves, based on the number of copies of Gundam Wing and Revolutionary Girl Utena we could ( Read more... )

Today is grey, rainy, and chilly. I woke up to grey early-morning dimness filtering through my window -- which made it hard to drag myself out of bed, let me tell you -- and I walked from my car to work through grey dim drizzle, and I have been looking out of the corner of my eye all day at grey dim rain on a copper roof. I love rainy days, but ( Read more... )