Loss is the word of the day, kids. My grandmother died last Saturday morning.

( Update follows. Emo ensues. )

1. It's May 27th. Father's Day is June 20th. Is it Too early to mail a Father's Day card? Dad's living in Calgary, not on the moon, but still. I'm bad with remembering dates and such.

Fuck, just remembered my brother's birthday was last week. He gets a late card.

( More questions to ponder... )

Okay people, I gotta get my plans best-laid. I finish my placement in early July, and then I must a) pay back copious amounts of student loans b) settle my debts and c) achieve some sort of standard of living above "hobo ( Read more... )

Tonight, scarfe is introducing Bruce Macdonald's Pontypool at a special advanced screening for horror fans in our Large Industrial City. I tried to convince him to do a Bruce Macdonald impression, but he didn't think he could carry off the disheveled wry humour and slightly inebriated sway. Silly Boy ( Read more... )

Writing Things Wot I Have Accomplished:

1. I wrote a Duck/Dan Wilby Wonderful snippet for the Rapidfire challenge last week, and I just posted an angsty F/K snippet today. Perhaps next weekend I'll shock and surprise the internets with...another snippet!

2. Finished a thorough edit of the first half of meresy's Horribly Belated Birthday Fic o' Doooooom ( Read more... )

It looks like meresy and I are going to go hear Paul Gross speak at Ryerson University on the 21st. This is exciting news! I am all atwitter, because I could possibly ask a question! (Perhaps about the Canadian cultural industry. And why the people who comment on the CBC News page about arts funding are such douchebags. I think Paul would share my ( Read more... )

dessert_first and I were talking about sex conventions in fic (as we do) and we were laughing over some of the unrealistic or downright ridiculous descriptions of semen that pop up time and again. After all, nothing takes you out of a hot and heavy sex scene like a grossly inaccurate description of a guy's, uh, climax. Or the product thereof ( Read more... )

1. I have much, much love for love_jackianto and me_maneuver, who have created a whole host of very beautiful covers for my stories. I'll be posting links soon (damn Netfirms! I curse you and your unreliable upload system!) but for now...yes, lots of love for these very talented ladies.

2. I said yesterday that I was enjoying Gabaldon's Dragonfly In Amber much more than ( Read more... )

1. general_jinjur is running another DVD Commentary Challenge, and I've signed up to both offer a commentary and to be commented upon. So if anyone wants to say anything about oh, dismemberment or landscape description or mangst (that's male angst) I freely up offer any of my fics for discussion. Some terrific authors have signed up for this thing, and I am ( Read more... )

I'm heading up to the big mall here in the Large Industrial City to purchase a dress. Or perhaps two. ( And now I shall tell you all about it, and plead for some advice )