This is a zombie picture of me (and also tehjos and gavinfrolic). The reason I am posting this is not because of the zombieness (although zombies are always awesome); it's because of the hair. Take a look at that hair. When unbraided it's about thigh-length, and I've been growing it out for nineteen years now. 19, puppies. 19 years. Almost two decades. This morning ( Read more... )

Some of you know that I have this strange terror of water. Not all water in general, or even things like lakes in general, but specifically pools of water when there is nobody else around. It's related to a fear of drowning. I am terrified of the idea of still, quiet pools of water, where one could fall in and nobody else would know ( Read more... )

I've been cleaning the bedroom recently, and that includes going through boxes I rarely touch. While going through one of my plastic bins, I came across a lot of items that I've made. Some of these were purely artistic, crafting for crafting's sake; those were almost entirely boxed to go to donations. And then there were the things I created back ( Read more... )

I'm baking chocolate sweet potato muffins. [ETA: Recipe in the comments ( Read more... )

I left my apartment and stepped outside and it was cold, but the more important thing was that there was this beeping, coming from who knows where but it seemed like the sky. And I stared up at the apartment buildings around me and suddenly everything shifted and there was this awareness that the man walking his pug across the street didn't know me ( Read more... )

Do you know where _doesn’t_ have free wireless Internet? I totally do, and here it is: Sick Kids Hospital. See, I know this because right now as I'm typing this it’s 8:35 AM, and I’m typing this into a text editing program, because I can’t post it to the interbutts, because... yeah... I’m at Sick Kids! And there’s no free wireless!

( Cut for some length. This starts off with me talking about the visit and then veered into stream-of-consciousness rambling about all different things as I got more and more tired. You’ve been warned. )

( OMG, it's the finalized cover for my new electronic-format book. Click! )

I...

I just sold my first ebook.

I JUST SOLD MY FIRST EBOOK.

OMFG.

I JUST SOLD MY FIRST EBOOK.

Hooooooooooooooly shit, I'm a Real Writer(tm).

So all y'all are gonna buy a copy of my ebook when it gets published, right?

My short story One Dance is up on Clean Sheets! I'm not all that thrilled with how they handled the formatting (they changed all italics to quotes) because some of it looks clunky now, but such is life. The important thing is that I'm up on the site! :)

I got my first writing-related rejection letter.