Not precisely a new icon: I had it over on my short-lived Insanejournal and once I discovered I had new icon slots open up on this journal I have since started reposting some of them here ( Read more... )

Had a feeling we'd go to Northampton Beach tonight: today felt warmer than yesterday, particularly since the humidity crept up (possibly left over from last night's thunderstorms). Work today, late morning/early afternoon shift: not much of note, aside from some antsy kids and their harassed parents (To kids poking at each other because they ( Read more... )

As promised, since Twitter-crossposting seems borken ( Read more... )

I had every intention of going out to the Burlington Barnes & Noble to get Neil Gaiman's newest book (which I wasn't the most excited about at first, till I heard him read the first chapter via Audible, and then I was hooked. Somehow, he manages to make seemingly ordinary situations extraordinary, plus I'm intrigued by the Triple Goddess-like trio ( Read more... )

Despite the rain we've had, my allergies are acting up royally, which made work a little difficult yesterday, plus, I was working an early evening shift, on a Friday night. Yeah, a bit of a pile-up ( Read more... )

I really should be typing fic, since I am behind by 10K words. Instead, I've been ( Read more... )

I was in a particularly nasty mood all last week, due to my imminent "moontime", as Anne Bishop dubbed it in her Black Jewels novels, hence ye long silence. I'm better than I was, though I'm still in the feeling like my insides have a hangover stage ( Read more... )

So... my dad had had a two-week vacation, which meant we were doing some day-trips and things around my work schedule (the way my hours got pared down, I can't afford to take a week off from work, certainly not two). This, along with the usual stressors of work, plus some very unwelcome online idiocy, lead me to have more emotional drainage than ( Read more... )

It's awesome and a relief to see someone, and a professional author no less, Say What Needs To Be Said about a problem that has been making all too many fandoms -- to say nothing of the Internet in general -- No Fun At All lately ( Read more... )