Do you hear that, Gentle Reader? It is the sound of a high, lonesome wind. If you watch this journal long enough, a tumbleweed may roll through.

Which is to say, I've been in deep introvert mode these past several weeks. But. I'm back today to say hello, and to share a few things.

Over at the Outer Alliance blog, there's a new Spotlight ( Read more... )

I said I was going to go and be very chill and not worry about doing much. Naturally, this meant I was super busy all weekend long (and I still didn't manage to see a few people I know were there, like teenybuffalo). It was good, though. Here are some memorable things:

*Friday night cucumberseed came to stay with us, but I missed his reading as I had to send him off with ( Read more... )

In this week's Spotlight, I kind of went into personal essay mode. Hopefully no one will mind too much. I have about 65 million things to get done, so I can't stay around to say more here, but I would love to hear your thoughts about this week's post and the contents within, whether here or there.

We attended a time travel theme party, and I went with the clockwork automaton costume idea. Originally, I had conceived it as Mattie from squirrel-monkey's The Alchemy of Stone, but I didn't really have all the details right (no face mask, no springy fingers...), and alas my friends have not read the book (which is an excellent book! I recommend it!), so they ( Read more... )