My feet are bright green!!! (And honestly, the color is much more fluorescent in person than it is in the picture...)

( cut for a sock picture )

So, the book I'm reading at the moment (The Spirit Lens by Carol Berg, who is likely my favorite English language author) has a tendency to use rather archaic sounding numbers. It's part of the way they speak in the book, and it's a first person narrative, so the writing itself has quite a bit of that same flavor to it. In this case, numbers tend ( Read more... )

Still going through the writing, though I got sidetracked reading my 2006 NaNo. Another year I finished up with something different, though this one made it to 30,000 before I decided to work on something different as well. I'll probably try to work on it some more in the near future, since I kinda do like it... But yeah, this particular story has ( Read more... )

Is it sad that I'm currently feeling insanely jealous of one of the "bad guys" from Minami Haruka's Kohitsuji Hokaku Keikaku (volume 3 specifically)?? And it has nothing to do with pretty boys or smex or anything like that, but something as mundane as glassesSee, in the chapter I'm translating right now, there's a scene in the bath, and the ( Read more... )

I love the Japanese, especially bl mangaka. I just do. Hit the cut for the book cover that I just ran across in a manga that I'm reading right now.

( worksafe, but cut anyway )

This is a snippet of conversation from the book that I'm reading right now (translated into English, since it's in Japanese)

"We can't carry something as big as a casket," Tooru said, unable to suggest that they stop.
"Yeah."
"Just what's inside."
"Yeah."
"...Want me to open it?"

(And this is a bl book, too. ^_^;)

I apparently just lost an entire hour... not sure what I was doing. Last I remember, it was about 1:45. Now it's 2:15... Today was the time change, so it's been well over an hour, though I swear it doesn't feel like it's been that long. >_< And I wanted to actually see my no-so-new-anymore clock that sets itself and adjusts itself go from 1:59 to 1 ( Read more... )

I'm feeling random today, so random I shall be!

( randomness on the topic of jpqueen, Kyou kara Maou, games, Ai no Kusabi, and Hanafurirou )

So, it is September 25th right now, and it is too bleeping hot for me to sleep. There is something wrong with this picture... >_In my inability to sleep, I've been doing some searching the National Weather Service's website, and I've discovered that the record high here for yesterday is 88... Our high yesterday was 84, so not that far off. And it's ( Read more... )

I posted the prologue to a story sometime last week. ^_^; (See here for that post...) Here is some more...the first part (but not all) of chapter 1 to be specific. Beware the random Hitchhiker's Guide reference. ^_^; And oh yeah...the narrator has a name now! ^_ ( Read more... )