I now have, hanging on my living room wall, a beautifully framed set of original artwork from the mad science web comic Girl Genius by Phil and Kaja Foglio.  This feels both incredibly geeky (It's a web comic.  With Mad Science!  And Death Rays!) and incredibly grown up (It's original art, that I paid a lot of money to get framed).  (Not to mention ( Read more... )

For a very long time I have wanted to organize my books properly instead of just - put all books of the same size together, books of the same author together and then shove all other books where ever they fit on the shelf and double stack everything.  Thanks to my soon to be beloved-former-roommates I now have a decent amount of bookshelf space but ( Read more... )

Last year I decided I wanted to keep track of the books I was reading and resolved to make a list/review of each here. Except that didn’t happen, partly because I had started to type up a long post reviewing several books I had read and lost it before I could post it. But in the spirit of trying again here is my list of books I’m planning to read ( Read more... )

Yes.  Fuck Yes.  Sometimes ... sometimes we do actually get it right.

Right now and through the 4 days of the con, GenCon (pretty much THE con for everything geek) is having livestreaming of the convention.  And my best friend from high school/evil twin (or maybe I was her evil twin we never did clear that up) is one of the two hosts of the filming.  You can watch the video feed at the gencon website or on the front ( Read more... )

I love fairytales. I love the magic and fantasy of them. They have always sparked my imagination and I admit, I wanted to be a princess when I grew up. I also have really enjoyed the Disney Princess movies both as a little girl and as an adult. Beauty and the Beast and Mulan I particularly love and rewatch fairly often. Even as a kid, I knew many ( Read more... )

1 - Leave a comment, saying you want to be interviewed.
2 - I will respond; I'll ask you five questions.
3 - You'll update your journal with my five questions, and your five answers.
4 - You'll include this explanation.
5 - You'll ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed.

Sev's five questions to me, cut for length.

( 5 questions )

After a couple weeks of back and forth, maybe maybe not, it is now official.  I will be teaching a college class on library skills.  It's just a one credit class at a community college but still... Teaching.  At a College.  It's exciting and also a bit terrifying as my first class is Friday.  And also rather surreal.  I'm watching my roommates who ( Read more... )

Sevarem has given me a list of words for this meme. Here are the rules :

Reply to this meme by yelling "Words!" and I will give you five words that remind me of you. Then post them in your LJ and explain what they mean to you.

So here are the five words she gave me :

( Five Words )

( cut for politics concerning libraries )