I cleaned out my closet today, which led to the cleaning of other parts of my room in a fit of unreasonable productivity. Dust flew! Empty Nutella containers were discovered! Towering stacks of books toppled and were re-built ( Read more... )

I keep meaning to post! I have things to say! But really all I can say right now is thank goodness my Macbook has an ethernet port because wireless is so not happening right now. Old skool!!1!

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One of these days I will watch all the episodes of The World That They Live In in a row in the order that God and the production team intended ( Read more... )

LET'S TALK ABOUT SOME BOOKS!

Or graphic novels, actually, since at the logicoemotional blackmail urging of my co-workers, I’ve also been reading some of them lately!

( Vampires and starlets and geniuses, oh my! )

I'm at the new JetBlue wing of JFK. It’s pretty great. I’m sitting here brainstorming on my laptop, sipping on a smoothie, updating LJ, feeling pretty great. I love JFK, you guys.

I love airports. I have had no sleep. cadragongirl, the cookies are in the freezer. Uh, just because. It seems like all my efforts to make cookies for my co-workers are being ( Read more... )

Okay seriously people, what are all these mermaid books everybody keeps talking about?

No really, it's a Saga. But this installment is over, and I am so excited to be actually getting a few hours of sleep tonight before my opening shift. Oh my God, I really am a sleep-deprived twentysomething working a low-paying job many hours a week to support my literary aspirations. How did this happen?!?!?! MY LIFE, YOU GUYS ( Read more... )

Not dead.

Rewriting. Ugh.

Needs moar chai.

This is why I'm going to wind up being a copyeditor, which has got to be pretty much the only publishing job worse than being an editor.

I should probably mention that I really, really want to be an editor.

FML.

So last week in my party-induced drunken haze I agreed to go contra dancing the next day ( Read more... )

Thank you to everybody who suggested holiday music last time! I've been having fun listening to all kinds of stuff, discovering some things, and rediscovering others. For example, I'd heard The Holly and the Ivy before, but the other day these lines floored me:

The rising of the sun
The running of the deerI just ( Read more... )