Having dreams about things like uprooting tree trunks that would otherwise grow back trees and accidentally exalting hatchling pixeldragons that I should really have done more with. Yes, thanks, subconscious, I am aware that I will be shutting off uterine possibilitiesCame down with a mild cold today, ugh. Rested rather than working, even though ( Read more... )

October 28 ( Read more... )

Wow, I have really not been posting, sorry! I have some patchy notes from the last ten days ( Read more... )

1. Kshama Sawant got elected after all! Dude! Time for a more progressive Seattle City Council. (Of course, we also made it so everyone will have to get re-elected soon if they want to stay on, since we're making districted positions instead of everyone being at large, but still ( Read more... )

(It's just that I am exhausted 100% of the time. Dear friends, next time I yell at you for doing too much while convalescing, you may give me the beady eye and a link to this.)

Tuesday:1. Crosshatched shadows on the trail ( Read more... )

Because I am contrary and can overanalyze ANYTHING, I am doing anti-happiness posting today!

1. My lunch was not good so I wanted to eat everything in sight all afternoon. Because clearly I hadn't had any actual lunch, only that soggy wrap that said it was tofu teriyaki and was really sweet and sour rice or something. I am a big fan of vinegar, ( Read more... )

Note to self: next time your morning yogurt smells like aged cheese, a known migraine trigger, do not deliberate and taste it carefully and then decide to eat it anyway, because MIGRAINE. It didn't come on quickly (not like the best of aged cheeses, Humboldt Fog) and there are no visuals, but I've been off kilter and miserably headachy much of the ( Read more... )

Komarr is the exact right thing to read, right down to the "lovesick mania for volunteerism."

He would not, could not, work through it all in an hour, or a day, or even a year; each day must have the challenge and response appropriate to it. One damn thing after another, Vorkosigan had said. But not, thank heavens, all things simultaneously.
And ( Read more... )

An unintended consequence of relaxed state liquor laws: I'm really enjoying the Stranger's series of local liquor reviews. Some of this gin will definitely be making its way into my home soon.

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I just finished Girl Wonder by Alexa Martin, a decent YA novel about a girl who moves to a horrible new school for senior year. Strangely it almost manages to be a novel about the infidelity of middle-aged male novelists and professors (her parents), but I was reasonably entertained. My problem with it, apart from the disappearance of the gays ( ( Read more... )