Wow. Just finished a back-to-back-to-back Harry Potter readthrough. Three weeks or so, including holidays. Three weeks of these books ( Read more... )

Guys guys guys, I just. Stupid is everywhere. Stupid is everywhere, and but sometimes it gets to my Particular Stoupid Peeves, and I need to share it with you, O Denizens Of Mine Internets, because this is my LJ and I can do that, so there. [See also Someone Is Wrong On The InternetThe particular Stoupid that we're talking about here is a ( Read more... )

Linkies first:

Beth Bernobich Interview
---- this interview makes me want to read this woman. She's got really good, cogent, and interesting answers to her questions, and seems to have her head on real straight. (I might, based on what the content of said books sound like, might recommend her to historicula since they sound pretty good and maybe like you' ( Read more... )

So. I just took this guy's survey on asexuality, and I'm finding some of my answers interesting. I'll copypasta 'em down here for the curious, and I'll note any commentary at the end.

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THE QUESTION:
17. If you were explaining asexuality to someone, what things do you feel it is most important to distinguish asexuality from? (list up to 10 ( Read more... )

oh yes pico let's start off the day right ( Read more... )

Since I realize I never updated about the gastroenteritis since I annouced I have it ( Read more... )

How irritating is it when a professional (?) reviewer is actually a really mediocre writer?

Some guy posted a link to his review on a fairly profi-looking website, and yet when you read the review, it sounds like a book essay a high schooler would write - a high-schooler who didn't much care for the book or their English grade and just wanted to ( Read more... )

Woke at 4.49. Couldn't resleep. Passed the time dozing and storyplanning. Finally, after a bad dream involving Doggo - Serena, our recently-deceased dog - being unable to walk and being rail-thin and being scared of me - I decided FUCKIT and got up.

Lots and lots and lots, these past few days. I'll break it into sections/subjects:

( SCHOOL: in which Pico tells what her teaching schedule is like, in brief. )

A Real Life Update will come in a sec. Just now, though, I got massively sidetracked onto my old Media Updates, and so now I am going to Update My Media, because that's what good Picos do.

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(and comics)

Feet of Clay, Terry Pratchett
---- re(rerere)read
---- finished up
---- oh gosh, Dorfl, :D
Alanna: the First ( Read more... )

I think - and don't quote me on this, it's just thinks that have been crystallizing in my head recently - I think that what I want, after this year, is to spend time in a country where I know the language and am not visibly foreign ( Read more... )