Okay, okay, I really didn't have to deal with the undead rampaging in the Salem Barnes & Noble: that was just me joining in a collective impersonation of Orson Welles when he trolled an entire radio audience with his production of H.G. Wells's "The War of the Worlds", only with blogging about zombies instead of broadcasting fake radio news reports ( Read more... )

Had an appointment with my therapist today, which brought me out of the shadows: I've still got some fogginess in my head, but I'm throwing 5-HTP and valerian root at it, which seems to be doing the trick. She's suggested that I hold off on making any major decisions involving the job, at least till Easter. This will be a bit tricky, as we're ( Read more... )

Busy, tiring Ash Wednesday: picked up some hours at work, since someone had been requested to work that day but had never returned my boss's calls, so I was next on the list to take the slot. Saw quite a few people with ashes on their foreheads come through my lane: it gives me hope. Wished I could have gone to Mass today, but God wanted me in ( Read more... )

Still getting over the annoying cough/tickly throat thing: had an erratic night sleeping, but am feeling better than I have the past few days. Just in time to go back to work tomorrow, not that I mind since I need the cash, plus I'm a bit restless. Spent the day taking a walk, writing six word fills over on comment_fic's theme of the day (I've got twelve down ( Read more... )

I call him "Kazutaka Mare-raki"; made that with the Pony Creation thingum on DeviantArt and am quite proud of it ( Read more... )

So, before work, I dug out our four-foot fake tree with white lights, and started to set it up.... only to find that some of the plastic wings for the base were missing. Not to worry, I found a regular tree stand which, with some help from my dad (after work), I jerry-rigged to hold the tree ( Read more... )

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

The feed between LJ and Twitter seems to be borked, so I'm missing quite a few of these links as digest posts. But! Here's a week's worth of fic-writing and -typing. Of course, not all of these fics were actually *written* this past week, some I'd had stored up in draft form to to be typed during last week's challenge ( Read more... )

Just back from the Burlington Barnes & Noble, where I picked up a copy of the much-anticipated anthology of shirt stories, featuring one previously published story which got past me somehow, and a never before published novella which takes place hours after the cliff hanger ending of "Changes". Just started reading it -- mostly the blurbs before ( Read more... )

Nicked from cupcake_goth, and it's an utterly adorable little meme:

Name four comfort-reading books:-"The Tao of Pooh" by Benjamin Hoff: Taoism made even easier, by seeing it through the eyes of a certain Bear of Very Little Brain ( Read more... )