Today was Halloween, but tomorrow is the CWC Halloween party, so I'll be dressing as a writer again: classic yellow #2 pencil in my hair, pencil sharpener and pen hanging on a chain around my neck, and my comma typewriter key earrings. It's a stealth costume that most people won't notice, but it amuses me. I'm doing it differently than I did in ( Read more... )

My friend Andrew asked for photographic evidence of my recent hair transformation (described in this previous journal entry), so here you go:


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My left wrist has been hurting a lot the past few days, so I haven't been typing much. But my journal-writing addiction is such that I can't stay away long. I'll write this journal entry in bits and pieces over the course of the afternoon/evening.

Halloween:

1. My reading (of my comedic Halloween story) at CWC went fabulously well. Everyone was ( Read more... )

Yesterday I started off with brunch with Lisa. She was heading off to a pumpkin carving party in SF in the afternoon, so we weren't doing our usual hours and hours of hanging out, but we still had time for some quality dining and chat. One of the things we ended up talking about was a Halloween costume I'm planning out for myself: "Writing Woman." ( Read more... )

Man, the spiders are going crazy this year! They seem to be all getting ready for Halloween, busily building gargantuan webs across every available open space. And the spiders themselves are huge! There must have been a serious bumper crop of bugs this year, in order for these guys to have beefed up to this extent. I've never seen anything like it ( Read more... )

I had a lovely Halloween. The weather was absolutely *gorgeous*, which was a nice change from the recent misting drizzle, and which meant that Shannon and I could venture out on the multi-stop bike ride we'd been tentatively planning ( Read more... )