what happened tuesday (last week) was that one of my department heads is retiring next month. O.O surprise? and then on wednesday the power went out at work! all over the block! you could tell everything was down (altho we had wifi) because everyone was standing around chatting. some guy was on his way to a meeting and got stuck in the ( Read more... )

What I just finished reading:
wet moon vol 7, written and drawn by sophie campbell, and it's weird how her style evolved between just vol 6 and vol 7. her art's still recognizably hers, but you can definitely see a difference. several years passed between books and she drew other stuff in the intervening years, so it makes sense that her art ( Read more... )

NANO STARTS AFTER MIDNIGHT ON TUESDAY AND I AM VERY EXCITED. i have no actual story but i do have a setting and a bunch of characters, only three of whom have names. i think the pov character has a name but i don't like it. >.< if you're also doing nano, good luck! if you're not, i apologize in advance for the whining. :D ( Read more... )

my sister and i saw wind river last night and while i can't say i really enjoyed it (it's a harsh, sad movie), i thought it was well-done and well-acted and i'm glad i saw it. because it starts with jeremy renner's character finding a dead native american girl in the snow, it made me think of the beginning of louise erdrich's love medicine - "the ( Read more... )

What I just finished reading:
jem and the holograms vol 1, which was a little ridiculous, a little melodramatic for its own sake, and a lot cute. and it seemed to end in the middle of the plot arc! so now i need vol 2.

What I am reading now:
the ides of april, by lindsey davis, which is about flavia albia, adopted daughter of marcus didius falco ( Read more... )

caught a rerun of one of my favorite episodes of criminal minds earlier - omnivore, in which a cadaverous c thomas howell makes a very convincing serial killer, and i spend half an hour yelling "BOSTON DOES NOT LOOK LIKE THAT" at the tv. it's a good episode ( Read more... )

so hannibal was canceled, three episodes into the new season. :( where will we get our beautifully-shot, delicious-looking body horror now? (fingers crossed for cable or netflix.) at least we get the rest of s3. but still, HOW RUDE ( Read more... )

"busy season" at work, which is now, seems to be super busy for a couple hours in the morning, followed by several hours of nothing, followed by everyone needing everything done at once. (and usually after coworker d goes home. >.< ) tomorrow is theoretically the last day, which means either it will be totally nuts or the same as every other day ( Read more... )

i feel like i should post. it's thursday, isn't it? holidays in the middle of the week throw me off. i also feel like i missed a birthday or something, which is kind of annoying. did something happen that i need to congratulate someone for? i have no idea ( Read more... )

first, happy birthday deirdre_c! one of the friendliest, most welcoming fangirls i know. also she is a GIANT DORK. also also she has a dog. :D this calls for cake ( Read more... )