In my defense... I've been VERY BUSY ( Read more... )

RIGHT. LJ. CRIKEY ( Read more... )

I told this story on tumblr on Wednesday, but I think it still bears repeating:

I had to teach an improv class today (IMPROV IS MY WORST NIGHTMARE), and one of the exercises we did was One Word Story Circle, in which (wait for it) everyone sits in a circle and creates a story, contributing only one word at a time ( Read more... )

In the middle of a gchat conversation with my boss, she drops something RATHER UNEXPECTED:

Boss: speaking of weird ideas...
fanfic

*cue Emily's head exploding, frantic wondering if she has somehow bugged my company laptop to show her how often I use it for fic reading, how I have a tab open RIGHT NOW, OH GOD DOOOOOMED*

Boss: what if we did a ( Read more... )

Last night, I dreamt that Loki was trolling people on the internet. I tried to chastise him, but he wouldn't have it, and kept reminding me he was the god of MISCHIEF and that settled that. (you may have heard- HE DOES WHAT HE WANTS, THOR ( Read more... )

So apparently I fail at LJ? I have somehow managed to fall out of the swing of posting, I'm not entirely sure how. Articulating my life seems to be such a CHALLENGE that I'm constantly not bothered enough to write any more. Having this LJ for so many years is SUCH a great thing, though, that I definitely want to relearn the knack and get back ( Read more... )

So remember how I decided to try having principles and not renew my paid LJ features for this year? Yeah, I maybe caved. I just don't UNDERSTAND Dreamwidth, not really, and like. MY ICONS. I MISSED them. It's a terrible line of reasoning, but for the time being, I have caved and you may feel free to judge me ( Read more... )

I am willfully playing hooky (although, is there any other way to play hooky?) from work right now. I met my boss for lunch that doubled as a planning meeting for ANOTHER planning meeting that I will be conducting in an hour and a half. There has been bad feeling between one of our artists and the school that she works with every year, and so the ( Read more... )

This morning, I took Steve (my estimable automobile) in for an oil change ( Read more... )

WHERE IS TEMPESTS. WHERE IS tempestsarekind?? Jamie Parker just tweeted at me about Shakespeare and the Henry VIs and SHE MUST SHARE MY GLEE ( Read more... )