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Dear SSHG Quiz -- it's an honour!
I'm delighted that Looking for Magic in All the Right Places has been included in this week's poetry-themed SSHG Quiz. Many thanks to morethansirius and the SSHG Quiz team! -
Thank you and congratulations!
So many of us in Canada were hoping and praying Obama would win (and wishing we could vote as well)! I'm grateful and relieved . . . but you have no idea how envious I am that you had the opportunity to elect a gifted and inspiring leader like Obama, while we had a choice between a boring man in a grey suit and an uninspiring grey man in a rumpled ( Read more... ) -
Some Australian Highlights
To be filed under "Possibly Better Late than Never" ( a bit of pic-spam from our April trip Down Under... ) -
Heading Down Under...
The action started last Tuesday with a job interview at our local polytechnic; they've come into some extra gov't money and are looking for writing & rhetoric instructors. My current job is more admin / student support than teaching, so I couldn't resist applying for a position that would get me engaged with students and subject-matter again. I ( Read more... ) -
The corpse gave a twitch, which startled everyone
Hello Flist ... !
I'm still not sure where Fall 2007 went, though I suspect large parts of it disappeared into cyberspace. I was teaching online again on top of an almost full-time job--fun and interesting, but so time-consuming! I was also seduced for a while by Facebook, now a haven for middle-age-somethings trying to keep in touch with family ( Read more... ) -
Oh my!
Was trawling gently through the latest crack_broom recs today and found, to my flabbergastment, that an SS/HG I wrote (oh lord) three years ago was recced as recently as mid-July. My thanks to leandra713 for her kind words! Every so often someone stumbles across this story and leaves a review, even after all this time, and I'm just delighted when that happens ( Read more... ) -
*SPOILERS* -- obviously! -- My blow-by-blow reactions to Deathly Hallows
This isn't an essay or even very coherent, but my immediate, gut, readerly reactions to each chapter after reading it for the first time and not knowing what was going to happen next. All commentary/spoilers under LJ cuts.
Speechless for now ... !
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Sat. July 21, 11:30 a.m. Pacific Time ... I wondered how long I'd have to wait for ( Read more... ) -
How quickly will you read Book 7?
I know many are avoiding LJ in case of being spoiled ... but if a few of you are still checking in over the next day or two, here's something I'm curious about ( Read more... )
