gryffin23's comment on Robert Jordan's novels being a serialized record of a really long D&D game got me thinking. Over the years I've enjoyed (and occasionally mocked) the Wheel of Time (WoT): its influence on my adolescent appreciation of fantastic fiction (and fiction in general), the terrible cover art, the perpetually pissed-off female characters, the ( Read more... )

I figured I was grown-up at age 4. Or at least my parents thought so. I really thought I was a grownup when I graduated high school at 17, I was ready to get out of the house, ready to take off...I wasn't ready for anything. (College was fantastically fun, but it wasn't grown up). Then I graduated from college and took a "gap" year, playing the " ( Read more... )

I'm can see the end of my extended hiatus from adulthood approaching. I start at the new job on Friday, which I haven't posted about because I don't want to jinx it. It is with the retirement department of a large multinational investment bank dealing with QDROs (qualified domestic relations orders). Thank you for all your congratulations and ( Read more... )

(Yeah, but those people are usually imbibing proscribed substances.) Haven't been called "Maurice" lately, though.

If you like, you may attribute my blog-absence to herding intergalactic space dogies to the hyperspace shipping hub (of course, wouldn't that make me a space cowgirl?) But the reality is much more mundane. I merely have been Useful ( Read more... )