I came back off holiday on Wednesday and stepped into a Kafka-esque nightmare ( Read more... )

I love my new iPad, I really do, but it's just gone all Lieutenant Kije on me and -- in the middle of a reply to a comment, which I can't edit -- created somebody called 'Andre'. I have no idea what freak combination of letters Andre emerged from, but he seems to be related in some way to Scorpius Malfoy, and -- since iPaddy obviously thinks they' ( Read more... )

Valentine's Day is never a good day. It's the anniversary of my mother's death. And it's the day after my ex husband's birthday, so he refused to celebrate it. It's always sucked.

What a day!

I woke up ill this morning (I won't go into details), on top of miserable because the large Acer monitor I bought yesterday wouldn't work with either of my Acer laptops, and Googling had shown me that a) it seemed to be a common problem, b) nobody seemed to have found a cure for it, and because c) I'd already pulled off all the ( Read more... )

A couple of posts by people on my f-list, (whose names I won't mention because this is in no way a comment on what they said), have again got me pondering something I've been wondering for a while ( Read more... )

I do wish I'd never joined fanficrants. I was raised to feel permanently guilty, so whenever I read about the latest (in most cases, hapless child's) trangression, I find mysef thinking: maybe I do that > yes, I'm sure I do do that > OMG, I must stop writing fanfiction and atone for doing that (which really doesn't help when you have a challenge fic that ( Read more... )

I'm seriously thinking of setting up a new community.

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