So, my karma is clean now. and probably for a good long time..

This was our day. We can has bonding experience nao?

Somebody send some money soon, pls., I have too many things to buy currently.

Also, I seem to have been divorced since Friday.

You know, I think I am just surrendering to the winds of fate at this point. Life is way too

Can we have "Perfect Blue Buildings" for the creepy skeleton image trifecta?

NB: I may not be reading a lot of livejournal for the immediate future. Fair warning: if you need to tell me something, please email or comment ( Read more... )

I figured out how to describe what I'm trying to do with my art this morning. In an email to another writer, I typed:

I don't write consolatory literature. I write absolutionary literature.

And then I paused and stared at what I had just written. And it clicked in my head as solidly as something somebody mentioned at Boskone, I think it was, that ( Read more... )

16-year changes in the USDA hardiness charts.

Bye bye, Lohachara Island.

We weren't using that ice shelf for anything, were we? Think of it as experimental support for theories of punctuated equilibrium.

Old rain forests can be recycled to make nice savannahs, it's true.

Midges!Not that anybody's asking me, but I think we can all stop looking ( Read more... )

[18:44] matociquala: Okay, you know the swallow a live frog thing?
[18:44] matociquala: Apparently, this is a Swedish technique for getting rid of the evil eye....
[18:44] cristalia: Classy.
[18:45] matociquala: My relatives are weird.
[18:45] cristalia: ...ew, I did not know this thing.
[18:45] tanaise: thankfully no.
[18:45] sosostris2012: You'll get rid of something, for sure
[18:45] matociquala: I did not know it until just ( Read more... )

eleven things I will stop doing when you pry my keyboard from my cold hands

(of course, the whole point of the ten-things lists is to be pithy. But this one, I can see, will require explication.)

1. Writing about prickly, broken, difficult, hard-to-identify-with protagonists. The world is full of books about people the reader is supposed to ( Read more... )

Ask me a question. I might even answer.

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So, um. I need a couple of volunteers ( Read more... )

Sometimes, we bite off more than we can chew ( Read more... )

1. As I sit here this morning working on my day job, my bread machine is in the kitchen making me lunch. Home robots = cool.
2. As I sit here this morning working on my day job, I am in my pajamas, tucked up on the couch under a throw sent to me by a friend who I only met because we were involved in an internet workshop together. That's like three for the ( Read more... )