1. I picked up a copy of Tortall and Other Lands which means that I am in for a load of Tamora Piercey goodness.

2. One of my friends is having twins in November. Whee! Getting to knit wee baby things!

3. DragonCon in a month! This means seeing awesome people like beckyh21124. I'm actually well into writing fanfic! And it should get posted and whatnot soon ( Read more... )

So, laundry finishing in the dryer, work clothes ironed for tomorrow and Monday, new Diane Duane novel to read, Doctor Who marathon going, and I'm re-knitting the shawl on larger needles, which is giving it a much nicer lacier look, and purring cat curled up next to me.

All in all, not a bad day.

Also, damn, but Matt Smith is pretty.

And this one appears to be doing the rounds again, so...

1. Grab the book closest to you.
2. Open it on page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Copy the next three sentences into your blog.
5. Tag five people.

"'The chief feature of dreams and of insanity lies in thier eccentric trains of thought and thier weakness of judgement.' In both ( Read more... )

You know, now that I'm in my binge of rereading The Chronicles of Narnia, I'm remembering how much I loved these books as a child and how amazingly comforting Aslan is as a character. Obviously, it was intentional, but I remember always waiting eagerly for Aslan to appear in each book as a child and was always just a little sad when he had to go ( Read more... )

I was doing some thinking about fairy-tale princesses and mythological female archetypes like Penelope (Remember? The chick from the Odyssey?). Anyway, what they're famed for is patientence. Things go horribly wrong in all of thier lives and, showing great forbearence (so we're told), they stick it out until the right guy comes along and rescues ( Read more... )