Challenge #10 in the Last Author Standing contest I'm in is now open for voting. Stories (there are six) and voting post can be found hereThe prompt this time was the word "alpha", and people took it in a number of interesting directions ( Read more... )

It's that time, folks - four weeks since the last one, rather than two, this time.

The entries for the latest challenge in the Last Author Standing contest, Original Fiction version (originalfic_las) can be found here, along with the voting post (I have belatedly realized that linking to the day in the community's archives gives you handy access to both posts in ( Read more... )

Note to self: when exhausted and massively short on sleep due to a brutal work crunch may not be the best of all possible times to keep compulsively reading news coverage about the situation in Haiti. One's usual emotional shock-absorbers are not functioning at full capacity in that state, and everything hits even harder than it ordinarily would, ( Read more... )

So I have now twice biked to a client's place near Pape & Gerrard, which is the longest distance I've done in a single stretch, apart from (I think) that one time I biked from foxesdaughter's place to Union Station along the waterfront trail late at night. And I've actually found it a pretty decent and enjoyable trek both times ( Read more... )

I've been in a huge work crunch lately and have just done two consecutive all-nighters, at least if all-nighter is defined as staying up until the hours when most people are getting up, and then trying to squeeze in a few hours of sleep in the morning, as opposed to not sleeping at all ( Read more... )

It's practically gotten to be a running gag here by now, but I have yet another new nomination for Best Song Ever (yes, in addition to the 15 or 20 I've singled out for that honour already ( Read more... )

1. Apparently, I am sick again. Apparently it is not enough that I was sick for half of December with the cold that wouldn't die, it is now necessary that I be sick again in January ( Read more... )

Well, let's see...

• Marathon work binge involving very little sleep for a long time? Check.
  
• Exposure to illness via small child? Check.
  
• Hitting point of wondering just how long I can keep up the pace I was? Check.
  
• Starting to get at least beginning cold symtpoms, though not too severe yet, and because they weren't severe, brushed them off for the ( Read more... )

I can has 36 hour day plz?

Or just stop time for a week or so while I get caught up. That would do it too...

Maybe more like a month.

...Plus a few other random notes

1. Aidan is now two weeks old, insanely cute, and mostly relatively non-fussy. He has his moods once in a while, but on the whole, much less crying than I would have expected.
   
   
2. Also, much more sleeping. He only wakes up a few times most nights, and mainly just to nurse, though he also needs the occasional nighttime ( Read more... )