AAAH, how is it already 15 days into 2016???? If I don’t write this now, I’ll end up putting it off until it’s already 2017. D:

Anyway. I spent way, way waaaaaay more of 2015 being sick (hospital, and later pneumonia from a DIFFERENT illness), maneuvering un/underemployment, applying for graduate schools, interviewing for graduate schools, ( Read more... )

Link.I remember standing on my bed with my head and shoulders between the venetian blinds and my window, holding the gigantic library hardcover of Mossflower on the windowsill, and reading the entire book by the light of the streetlamp outside ( Read more... )

WFC 2009 was awesome-crazy ( Read more... )

So, I have been given a coupon to use on a paperback book. Even though I have (okay, at this point I looked at my "to read" shelf and feel a bit panicked by the number of unread works on it, but we'll carry on anyway) a lot to read, that has never stopped me from acquiring more books ( Read more... )

Last night, I dressed up like a pirate and had cookies, cupcakes and an energy drink for dinner.

Because, well, because I'm a Grown Up and I can do what I want, damn it.

I was at lisamantchev's Eyes Like Stars - Amazon Link! - reading and book launch at the University Bookstore in Seattle. I dressed like a pirate because if csinman was going to dress like Bertie, ( Read more... )

I went to work. It was dull, but we actually made some money so I could justify my presence there. Hooray.

Then I came home and signed up to be typed for bone marrow donation:

The MarrowthonBetween June 8-22 the first 46,000 volunteers can sign up to be a bone marrow donor for free, ONLINE. I'm supposed to get a testing kit or whatever in the ( Read more... )

It's roughly 4:30 and my brain is still working so slowly that time seems to be flying. I need. NEED NEED! To get some writing done, in addition to kicking myself firmly in the rear. Since, you know, it really doesn't matter how much I want to work on the next novel right now, I need to finish this one first. It doesn't matter how very very far off ( Read more... )

Despite Seattle traffic and a late start I got to see Neil again at his reading. I felt bad that we'd arrived so late (right at seven, Argh!!!) and ESPECIALLY bad that I am not assertive enough, uh, pretty much ever so none of the staff who were looking for me found me until all the way at the end when the reading was over and he was about to leave ( Read more... )

I'm posting these for Audrey, because she only has an f-only LJ, and I thought that the entire world needed to be able to see them. So there.

All photos in this post were taken by awriter and are posted with her permission for the delight of the masses.


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jaylake is having a rough week. Which is... an understatement. ER, cancer diagnosis... :(

(For which reason he is encouraging everybody to start getting colonoscopies.)

He has asked for pictures of Mainspring's mass market release in bookstores - when it came out earlier this week, he was going to the hospital ( Read more... )