I should probably lead with the fact that my dad just called to tell me my sister is on her way home from the hospital. \o ( Read more... )

Sunday miscellany, comics edition:

1. cool interview with Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie, the writing team on the current Young Avengers.

2. so I'm not reading the current run of Captain America, but I have thoughts about spoilers from the latest issue. ( rambling thoughts based on reading spoilers, not the comic itself )

Here's a link to the pics from our visit to the NYPL yesterday.

I guess I forgot to do the Wednesday reading meme, so:

What I've just finished

So I kind of got completely distracted from Going Clear by a reread of The Belgariad and The Malloreon, which are even worse than I remember and yet I have such deep nostalgic love for them, because I ( Read more... )

I meant to go out and do some grocery shopping but I somehow stumbled and fell into tumblr, which I hadn't really kept up with this week, and now it's almost 4 pm. How did that happen?

Anyway.

Teevee:

Community
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I don't really have anything to say about last night's Arrow except that John Diggle is the best. Oh, and ( spoiler )

After today I'm off for a bunch of days and it is really hard to get motivated to do the two things that I NEED to have done before I go.

Otoh, A Christmas Card From The Middleman - 2012. DAY MADE.

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Comics:

Captain Marvel: ( spoilers )

Bleh. I keep opening stories to work on and then there's solitaire and bubblespinner and tumblr, so no writing gets done. I think I've figured out my yuletide story, though. I just have to refresh the character voices in my head, and I've kind of been avoiding it for ~reasons~ (if I told you the reasons, you'd probably guess what the source was so ( Read more... )

I got my period last night and ended up not sleeping until after 4, so I'm glad that I didn't have to work today. And according to the org website, I don't think I have to work tomorrow, but as you recall, yesterday they pulled that certainty out from under me, so I guess I'm just going to say that it's tentative right now. (I expect the trouble is ( Read more... )

Happy birthday to two lovely ladies I'm so glad I've gotten know over the years: innie_darling and tenaciousmetoo! ♥♥♥♥♥

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I don't really talk politics on this journal, but I do talk Bruce Springsteen, so, via
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[apparently automatic crossposting from Dreamwidth is broken? so I'm manually crossposting this. if it shows up again, I'll just delete the later version. sorry for the screwy cut tags!]I am shocked - shocked! - to find out that gambling is going on here! I mean, that the NFL caved and settled with the locked out refs after Monday night's debacle ( Read more... )