I'm pretty stressed out, and almost none of it is because of my own stuff. Things are just fine with me. But a lot of people I care about are having tough times ( Read more... )

Boy. I am Spammity McSpammenstein today ( Read more... )

Had a long chat with Super Agent last night, during which I became aware that over the last week, what started out being a mild character-massaging, word-polishing, clean-up rewrite has turned into a major plot revamping rewrite up to and including the excision of a significant subplot ( Read more... )

You know what I hate? When I get a nice hot cup of coffee from the cafeteria, and I'm sipping it carefully to avoid scalding the entire inside of my mouth, but I miscalculate with the lip action and get a big honking mouthful by mistake. Yeah, I hate that ( Read more... )

Well, it's Friday, and the stack of books that I'm in the process of reading just keeps getting taller and taller. For the first time in over a month, Rachel and I have no plans and no houseguests ( Read more... )

We had the pleasure of Alyzan the Mighty's company again this weekend, and will for the next two weekends in a row! We're gonna get spoiled. She and TLR spent a lot of time scrapbooking (run away!). Saturday featured shopping. I scored some great shirts at Avenue (one of which I'm wearing right now, a coral-colored microsuede with some subtle ( Read more... )

It's interesting what others consider laziness versus what I consider laziness ( Read more... )

I feel worse today. Significantly worse. Probably because I was only able to sleep in 30 minute increments. Just when I'd get to sleep, I'd get that sudden ZING in my throat that feels like a tiny cattle prod poking from the inside and I'd splutter awake in a coughing fit of epic proportions...or else I'd get to sleep and then suddenly wake up ( Read more... )

Am mailing off two packages today, one to longtimegone and one to my brother's family. Here's hoping the line isn't too long at the UPS store ( Read more... )

Wow, you guys updated a LOT in the last twelve hours. I just went skip=50 and I checked my flist last night at 11:00So I'm finally getting around to watching the "Dead Like Me" discs that I got from Netflix. It's a cute show, but it's really not grabbing me. The episodes are oddly...non-cohesive. I'm not sensing any kind of arc forming. ( Read more... )