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cadragongirl and I, being friends and roommates, have occasionally been known to sit down and share a meal together. When that meal is a dinner that we have cooked ourselves, on the rare occasion that our schedules match, we like to watch dramas and things as we eat. Now, back in the day when I didn't have crazy ( Read more... )

The continuing adventures of Fiona-can-only-post-at-airports!

At San Francisco this time: I may have just bought some super-kawaii gel stickers from an independent-bookstore-affiliate-cute-shop. Look, the cute compelled me! YES PANDA. It’s all hakusa_tegami’s fault for talking about Love Shuffle ( Read more... )

I started watching Avatar: The Last Airbender back in December, and promised myself I could finish it after I finished That Damn Paper ( Read more... )

So instead of using my snow day off from work to write either of the things I really need to be writing, I started watching Avatar: The Last Airbender. As you do ( Read more... )

A day off, and it’s too hot to go out and actually do much, so cadragongirl and I are holed up at Panera. I am spectacularly failing to write my staff rec for Plain Kate, because I love it like burning and keep getting sucked into re-reading bits and crying and then failing to have the right words ( Read more... )

Friends and sundry! I write this from a remote outpost in the mountains of California, where it is cold and misty. Quite frankly I would love to be tramping around in the woods wearing rain boots, except my rain boots are on the other side of the country and anyway indoors we have muffins and tea ( Read more... )

The other day I was looking for the manga Dororo in various libraries, because I loved the movie and I am determined that this be the summer I learn to appreciate manga and graphic novels. I found the Publishers Weekly review of the American publication of Vol. 2, and then I had to go look up what else PW had said about Tezuka Osamu. Turns out, ( Read more... )

I spent most of this weekend re-watching Gravitation, a strange and frequently hilarious anime about the moral journey of Shindou Shuichi, his romantic interest Yuki Eiri, and his band, Bad Luck. It's about boybands, scheming corporate bosses, romance novels, and true love in the face of post-traumatic stress disorder and interfering siblings-in- ( Read more... )

A Thing I Love About New York: the way my skin looks pale gold sometimes in the subway lights.

Tuesday, March 18, 2008
A bit of randomness about Garth Nix, librarians, and weaponry in public places...

ME: I'm reading the sequel to Sabriel, and there are librarians, and they CARRY SWORDS and BEAT DOWN EVIL. WITH MAGIC. AND SWORDS. IN THE LIBRARY ( Read more... )