( Small Spoilery Bit Below )

For serious ( Read more... )

...to go back to the academic reading. It's been a few weeks. I've read some fiction books and a ton of BBB fics, but as I start getting more into the writing of the megaton hugefic of hugeness, well, I've already been doing kind of academic research for that. You know, as much as one can academically study wizards, witches, and faeries. I'm trying ( Read more... )

So, I didn't go to work today. Because mother nature is a bitch and put me in so much pain this morning I was in bed with my heating pad until around 2:00pm. I HATE taking off of work, esp. these days, but I could not move. Grr and argh indeed. I'm still in a good amount of pain, but it is so much better than this morning. Still, me and the heating ( Read more... )

...when I was excited about snow. After spending a childhood growing up with snow storms in New York, I moved to North Carolina. The Piedmont, to be exact, where snow in winter is far from common but ice is often a nasty friend. In 13 years of living in Charlotte, with some time in Raleigh, I cannot remember a whole winter's snowfall topping off at ( Read more... )

I have a stye on my left lower eyelid. I did heat compresses yesterday, tried to make do with warm water compresses from paper towels during work today, and have currently moved to a teabag. Must thank mother for forcing me to bring the variety pack of black teas with me when I moved up here in 2006, or I would have been SOL. My face kind of hurts ( Read more... )

I spent three hours this morning just trying to get my computer to start. Damn you, Windows Vista, damn you ( Read more... )