Yes, I will make the effort to blog.  I just finished my book club book for the month, which started off all right, a totally off-the-wall hilarious plot about writing which rings horribly true about the writing/publishing/reading industry today.  I'm not even kidding, I could relate to just about everything he lists as a thematic device guaranteed ( Read more... )

Wow, this totally should've been done by now.  Especially since Day Three of Sunflower was pretty quick.  Oh, well, I'll get this down, and then we'll move on ( Read more... )

Dude, it's like we're having a minor Sherlock Holmes fest around my house this week.  Seriously, Sunday was the contemporary Sherlock series, which everyone enjoyed except for the major cliffhanger at the end there.  Monday my brother borrowed the 2009 Sherlock Holmes movie from me which got me thinking about it, and then of course we watched House ( Read more... )

So, today I was told that I have to stop wearing the crazy socks in the office and that I'm getting an additional account added to my workload.  Lame.  I'm actually more annoyed by the whole sock thing, because I don't wear them to look silly, I wear them because my feet are cold from working in the subterranean environment that is our office.  But ( Read more... )

So I just finished an awesome article in Sports Illustrated about Stan Musial.  I already knew he was awesome because he is a classic Cards player and a great nickname, but, dude!  Stan the Man is even cooler than I thought!  Ninety years old, married to his high school sweetheart for seventy of those years, quit smoking when he realized he was an ( Read more... )

So, apparently it's Atheism Awareness week on facebook.  I have absolutely nothing against atheism and its followers, but being the literature dork that I am, my first reaction to this statement in the form of a red letter A was, "Why are all these people I know suddenly admitting to adultery?"  Which also got me thinking about The Scarlet Letter ( Read more... )

Earlier this evening ( Read more... )

Hey, everybody!  Did you survive your weekend?  Yes?  No?  I managed to get through, despite the terribly draining week last week.  Im still feeling the effects a bit, but with the weather slightly grey, it suits my melancholy, and for some reason when my mood and the weather are in step with each other I always feel better.  Feeling ecstatic on a ( Read more... )

Ah, brilliant day!  Seriously, it was brilliant.  I'm still smiling.  I had a few doubts about it yesterday, but no, today was a delight.  I knew we were having a special speaker for our Jane meeting and I was like ehhh...because I didn't want to sit through two hours of Jane info reduced to dreary facts or something, but no!  We had the head of ( Read more... )

I really need a woohoo icon.  Anyone got one?  Because today is the day for a WOOHOO! icon ( Read more... )