So it snowed a lot in Chicago the past couple of days. Not nearly enough for me to stay home from work, naturally, but enough to have to get up an hour early yesterday to shovel, and to have to do the same tonight when I got home. ._. come on, weather, it's March, could we not? (Also, it seems unusually cruel to throw a "get up early and shovel ( Read more... )

So I still remember the day I bought Star Ocean 2. I don't remember the actual date, but I know I was meeting kruammitak and EM at Lone Star for dinner, and I know I bought it in cash, largely 5s and singles, along with Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete. (The denominations of the cash were because I bought it with tips I earned at said Lone Star, ( Read more... )

It's been a nice weekend. I spent the latter half of last week (Thursday through early Saturday) with a migraine, though fortunately it was one I could keep going through since I couldn't really miss work at that point. I did get my final review, which was even more generous than the initial discussion had pointed to, and came with a really nice ( Read more... )

Fall is here, with a vengeance. Last week it was in the 70s (and the weather app on my phone suggests that next week it will be so as well), this week it's in the 50s and 60s, grey, and rainy. Suddenly, fall. I am enjoying it being cool enough to properly sleep while covered in cats. (Zelda is not enjoying it; poor baby gets cold easily, which ( Read more... )

1. I had a cool idea for an opening sentence to an (original) story the other day. I'm currently trying to beat it into shape for an open anthology call. I like where it's heading so far, although I definitely still have some "??? profit!!!" in my outline. We'll see. I did get a solid 500 words out of it yesterday ( Read more... )

I have been thinking lately about Moogle U, and why I've gotten so bad at it. When we first started (omg, in 2013) I was doing a really kickass job at tearing through the games and posting and having commentary and thoughts and feelings and all that shit. And the complicated thing is that I'm still really enthused about the idea of Moogle U, but ( Read more... )

I have not been able to get my brain to boot all day. I was flat exhausted yesterday (such that I tumbled into bed at 10, and stayed there until 10:30 this morning, and fitbit says I got almost 9 hours of sleep in that time). I dragged myself out of bed, consumed a lot of tea, played a lot of phone games, and sat around listlessly (while paladin ( Read more... )

Today has been a nice blend of productivity and floppings. I did the rest of the laundry, including the bathroom rugs, and made a giant batch of the curry chicken salad for our lunches this week (confirmed: my alterations to the recipe turn it from "pretty good" to "PUT MORE IN MY FACE IMMEDIATELY").

I spent a decent chunk of time on Star Ocean 2 ( Read more... )

We are now in the part of the year where the weather just has no damn idea what it's doing - we're going from days in the 60s to days in the 90s with no gaps in between. (Today is the latter ( Read more... )

I felt unaccountably terrible yesterday--I was okay, if grumpy, when I woke up, and I got myself together and went to the train, and then was standing on the platform when I abruptly realized "wow, no, I feel exceptionally awful." So I emailed my boss and went home, where anxiety chewed on me for about an hour about how I had waited too long to ( Read more... )