Addendum to prior post [click back if you want, I don't feel like making a link ( Read more... )

Quickie:*looks at time* ...so much for that =p

[some of you may have seen this on Faceache, but I'm posting to illustrate a point]


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Few things I forgot in my migraineness:
- high school kids are mean
- Warp Dr.The first is depressing as hell, and it makes me want to have kids even less than I already do, because I don't think I could ever put a child through that potential abuse. [or live with myself if somehow my kid became a bully, even though in that case I'd have a better ( Read more... )

I'll write about Fanksgivin and BRACK FLIDAY later. For now, an Ask Amy that bugs me in the way that going to the LEGO store bugs me ['cause I remember a school assignment where we were to build a castle WITHOUT using LEGO stuff, and other kids used LEGO stuff]...DEAR AMY: My 10-year-old daughter finished a school project that took her hours of ( Read more... )

Just as a note before I forget, I'm quite glad that I have not seen this [copied below] at the weddings I've attended, though--to my embarrassment--I've heard it shouted at the couple when they were doing the cake photos ( Read more... )

[Grammar Nazi]I am proofing and have written my latest stories in fixed-width fonts, the former because that's what was given to me, the latter because submitting in TXT format [of the requested formats] is almost 100% guaranteed to be readable regardless of viewer used. I've also gone back and looked at my printed books with this spacing ( Read more... )

I'm curious as to how they figure this out, but... not THAT curious ¬_¬; [read: LOTS of voyeurism, apparently ( Read more... )

I feel better and worse--better because I'm not at the bottom of the food chain and have leisure to dork around a little before NEEDING to get serious... and worse because I have gone full circle and am pretty much back where I started ( Read more... )

More yet-unfinished thoughts:

1. Diana Wynne Jones died this morning, which sucks =/ but... circle of life and all that. I know I'm kind of detached in this respect, but it's a coping mechanism. I don't know how I'd manage if I let every single death EVER get to me.
   
   
2. Link from my brother: Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior [read before criticizing ( Read more... )

Oh, I had a follow-up, didn't I ( Read more... )