Originally posted at Uncreated Conscience.


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There are many things I hate about being sick, but the one decided advantage is that I had endless time to read. Most of my reading is restricted to my subway commute in the morning and in the evening as well as whenever I am eating dinner or brushing my teeth or other snatches of time I'm able to steal from my day. I don't miss much about being ( Read more... )

Barnes and Noble is engaged in a conspiracy to prevent me from ever getting my mitts on the next two volumes of the Attolia books. I read The Thief some months back and enjoyed it and have been meaning to finish the series for ages. But every single time I walk into a bookstore (I am a loyal patron of Barnes and Noble, primarily because I am a ( Read more... )

A cigarette fast is easy to maintain when your mother is in town, who so heartily disapproves of them to the point that she almost disowned you when she found out you smoked, and you are staying with her at the Hilton New York this week in order to escape The Hovel Where I Live ( Read more... )