Holy cow, Christmas is just a week away.  Can you believe it?  I for one can't, wow.  Just appeared out of nowhere, but I guess my calendar would beg to differ.  Oh well.

( Adventures in stuff! )

All right, I get fifteen minutes on here and then I must absolutely go work on my Nano.  I'm currently stalled out at 17K or so, my main character is bleeding to death and unconscious, but I've determined to finish it up, and I have an idea of a very short chapter 4, before we tackle the epic chapter 5.  I don't think chapter 4 will be public, it's ( Read more... )

I haven't done this in a while.

( And not with these characters. )

You know, there are some days where it's not worth getting over the barbed-wire fence and past the armed guards.  Seriously ( Read more... )

I'm supposed to be doing something constructive right now, like listening to Prairie Home Companion heckling the Cubs, or reading story, or working on my own...but I'm not.  I don't know, it's a gorgeous July afternoon, I got some summer air today, I still smell like sunscreen, I feel like doing little.  It could because I am living in fear of next ( Read more... )

Ah, yes, Friday at last.  I am most content, aren't you ( Read more... )

Hooray!  It's Wednesday!

No, I don't really know why Wednesday is significant, other than I got off early today (sweet!), and the week is already half over.  I'm okay with all of that.

So somewhere in the past week Mother Nature decided to go off her meds, and become schizophrenic for people in St. Louis and Iowa City, and just depressed for those of ( Read more... )

So we're having a tea at Jane Austen on Saturday, and you had to make a reservation by Wednesday/yesterday.  I sent three emails to the group to remind them of this; one at the beginning of the month, one a week from the particular Wednesday, and one on the Tuesday before.  And what should show up in my inbox this afternoon?  A full fourteen hours ( Read more... )

Good evening, people, how's it going?  I have to say, the last five days have been quite interesting and often action-packed.  Friday was the usual swing dancing joy, followed by a pleasant and unexpected visit that kept me up until four a.m., when I had fully planned to be in bed before one.  Yet, despite all the expelled energy of Friday, I ( Read more... )

Happy February everyone.  Oh, boy, I'm so glad it's Saturday.  So much happened this week I can barely remember what went on before Thursday.  Let's see, orientation day was fine.  The whole getting up at six to get to work by eight turned out to be fine, I actually had time to shower and all that, and I was still in the building around 7:45.  The ( Read more... )