Things have been non-optimal around here for a while, hence my lack of fannish (or any) content. I am behind on TV because of a combination of generalized work stress and a couple of specific work-related deadlines that left me feeling sort of unequipped to do much of anything mentally taxing, including write anything outside of work or process ( Read more... )

I haven't posted about this yet because -- well, to be honest, I was kind of superstitious about it: if I post about it, it might not happen! But the exhibit has opened, and
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Okay, parents: What books did/does your three-year-old love? I am working on my Awesome Auntie status and need some suggestions. For reference: Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, which I only know about from visiting
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I'm finally home from three weeks of travel (which turned out to be about four days too much, alas), about which I may post more anon. I spent the weekend doing laundry, tending my neglected garden, consoling my neglected cats, chatting on the phone with
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A few (ha!) notes, more or less in chronological order:

( 2700 words about people and socializing under the cut )

What I want to be doing right now:

• gardening
• vidding
• sitting on my couch with a cat on my lap

What I should be doing right now:

• writing 900 words on an important project (which, because it's me, means writing 3,000 words and then trying to find the 900 right words buried in there somewhere)
• writing 2,000 words on a different important project (see above ( Read more... )

Today I packed up about three-quarters of my clothes and donated them to the local thrift shop that supports women in need. This downsizing was inspired in part by living away from home for four months last spring: I didn't quite live out of a suitcase, but I definitely lived with a very-much-reduced version of my usual wardrobe, and when I got ( Read more... )

Short version: Adulting is hard, yo ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago I drove to Iowa for a long weekend with the grrly grrl. We strolled along the riverwalk one afternoon and hiked the river bluffs south of town the next; we cooked with the produce we picked up at the farmers market and a few things from my garden that I'd brought from home; we ate pumpkin bread and drank tea and talked and talked ( Read more... )

I love a lot of things about my job, but I do not like the fact that October inevitably turns into the month of CONSTANT MEETINGS. Oy. I did, at least, manage to take a long weekend in the middle of the month; I probably should have stayed home and tried to get caught up on stuff, but instead I traveled. (More about that in a separate post ( Read more... )