Things are really busy right now. 8 grants are due before the end of March, with 4-6 of them being due before I leave for Arizona.

Amidst all of this, I thought of a question while I was working today. It's a common sci-fi trope to engage a "self destruct sequence" towards the end of a fictional production, mostly to heighten the dramatic stakes ( Read more... )

This is the beginning of a short story I just started working on... oh, half an hour ago. It'll turn darkly in a paragraph or two, probably with murder or something like that. I haven't decided if the narrator is alive, dead, or a demon. He's being stubbornly vague, which I've tried to reflect in his choice of prose. Either way, this guy (it is a ( Read more... )

-Talked with my darling girlfriend (I'm failing hard at linking names... I blame the hour) until 2:30 AM. It's nice to be on the phone for hours with someone, especially when you can't be next to them near as often as you want (emphasis on often). However, I might need to scale that back a bit when I know I've got to be at work by 9 AM the next day ( Read more... )

My job is trying to make me crazy ( Read more... )

Don't even know where to begin ( Read more... )