In no particular order, some things new folks or passersby might want to know:

--I'm a geeky, introverted, shy-but-friendly (Canadian) Maritimer, now in my early 40s. Subscribe/unsubscribe/comment as you please. ^_^

--What you'll find here is a mix of daily life/media consumption/fannish things interspersed with linkspam posts.

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I don't know whether this'll be my last post of 2016. In case it is, happy New Year to all of you; to paraphrase someone I retweeted a few hours ago (Scalzi?), at least we know that Australia and New Zealand, at least, survived 2016. (And probably other places by now ( Read more... )

Christmas Eve dinner with
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The brutal workweek we were expecting turned into a very light day of work today and...that's it. Because that's how things go sometimes ( Read more... )

I guess I was getting a bit cocky about feeling like I was staying on top of not-work things for the first couple weeks of Casual Job (enabled by the fact that the hours haven't been ridiculous), but sometime in the last 48 hours or so my tabs have exploded a little. (The me of not that many months ago laughs heartily at this number of tabs ( Read more... )

All else about The Vampire Diaries aside (and if I have anything else to say it'll be inherently spoilery, so it's not going in this post), I remain both amused and grumpy that Allison Scagliotti is playing a character named Georgie. The universe is fucking with me, y'all.Dewey's Readathon is going on this weekend. I've never participated and ( Read more... )

--After a couple weeks (or however long it's been), Claudia is collared again. We were finally getting low on cat food, so
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My main tag for Newsflesh here includes "trilogy". How lovely that that's no longer strictly accurate! *^^* (I mean, it hasn't been for quite a while, technically, since the novellas have been coming out for a while, but Rise and Feedback are such huge jumps ( Read more... )

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I can't say I feel well rested, but today I got up within a reasonable time of my alarm going off, which is a first for the week. (Alarm at 10:15, up by 10:40, including reading overnight emails and checking Twitter.) By noon I'd had tea and breakfast, read the paper, scooped the litterbox, and put laundry in, so even without having started work ( Read more... )