I'm choosing not to look at how many days it is until Christmas, but it is starting to feel a bit Christmassy now. We've decorated at my office. I've started my advent calendar.

I'm trying to figure out how many Christmas-themed books I can read in three weeks. I'm feeling a need for a Dark is Rising reread and I've got a stack of cozy comfort ( Read more... )

A day late again, but at least I'm doing it this week...

What are you currently reading?

My digital read is Revelation by C. J. Sansom, because it and the next book in the Matthew Shardlake series were both on a good price on Kindle. I'm a big fan of these books, lovely meaty Tudor mysteries featuring a hunchbacked lawyer, so they'll probably ( Read more... )

So, way back on December 10th, I was supposed to talk about historical romance for
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Today has been One Of Those Days. Ugh ( Read more... )

So, I had these plans to write trip reports and con reports and all sorts of things. Except, er, I didn't. My gentle relaxing trip to England was actually far too busy to have time to do that. When I wasn't out and about, I was relaxing over cups of tea and knitting with Mum and Dad. I had Twitter and other things on my iPod to keep up with the ( Read more... )

It's been raining on and off all day. The sky is solid gray and there's a faint haze on the horizon. For some reason, this is making me feel happy, though. Maybe it's the cup of tea sitting next to me and the fact that I'm sitting indoors looking at the icky weather. I think that I'm strange in that way. The only way that I'd feel better is if I ( Read more... )

I am eating chocolate biscuits ::munch:: They are very good chocolate biscuits from Canada that my aunt brought me and right now I feel as though I deserve them. I have done an entire chapter of French and should be on track to finish my next assignment by the deadline, despite everything else that's going on ( Read more... )

So, the review database is pretty much done and guinea pigs beta testers are now attempting to break it having a play with it. Got one minor bug to work out, which I'll be looking at after the weekend and won't take much work to fix, but otherwise it's looking good ( Read more... )