I've reviewed difrancis 's newest book Bitter Night both at Barnes and Noble and at Amazon. It will take some time before my reviews (under my reviewer-pen-name waxen wings) will show up in either place.

When I am no longer feeling fuzzy with sickly funk, I'll post something a little more detailed here. But basically, it was a fabulous read. I honestly had ( Read more... )

AOL's 'news' today had an interesting blurb of an article about The Key to a Happy Marriage. I'm mostly interested in the first two paragraphs, which claim (based on highly scientific opinion polls) that a marriage is more likely to stay together if the wife is A) Younger and B) better educated than the husband. The same, the author says, is not ( Read more... )

First, a little Latin vocabulary:

Magistra: Teacher (female, aka, me)
Discipulus: Student (male, aka, smart alec)
Discipula: Student (female, aka, object of smart alec's wisecracking)
And now, a dialog (which actually happened in my class today):

MAGISTRA: [having called DISCIPULA by the wrong name] I mean, Jordan--

DISCIPULUS: [laughing] Robert

MAGISTRA ( Read more... )

Because I'm a sheep (and have spent about as much brain power writing my paper on Tennyson's "Ulysses" as I really want to).
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1226 new words tonight; 3558 total world design words = 11% done!

Hacked at this world's magic system tonight. It's kind of exciting--no one can be quite an island unto themselves and get too many things done, and I think it will end up creating a good bit of interpersonal conflict to have to do a lot of magic in teams of very different people. I'm ( Read more... )