In the midst of nail-biting terror this December. Happy Holidays!

Another interview next week, then finessing (any) offers, then (potentially) moving away. From my home and family, my parents, my dog. You guys will still be at the other end of the Internet, right?

Although I 'won' NaNo my writing has slowed to a crawl; two or three sentences a night ( Read more... )

NY interview done, for good or ill. Know more in a week. New opportunity in NJ opened up, contacted but online app not yet up. Getting in on the ground floor, go me. Will speak again with Unemployment folks Monday. Looks like Old Work is trying the 'she voluntarily quit' ploy. Don't make me go down there...

Obsessively reading Hugo kerfluffle round ( Read more... )

I wanted to get down my opinion of Capaldi, but instead I have to leave and take #1 to his Renn Faire job, then head into work myself. So, an abbreviated version ( Read more... )

I don't even know if I can come up with five things ( Read more... )

While I rack my brain trying to think of iconic female characters from the 2000s-2010s for
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I'm caught up with Rizzoli and Isles and am frankly growing less and less enamoured with the pregnancy storyline. Why behind the cut.

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Things are v. bad at work. At least they are giving me lots of leeway to get things working again, but memories of my last layoff haunt me.

At least the visit home stopped the stabbing pain I was getting from grinding my teeth. #silverlinings

Shall I tell you how much I disliked How to Train a Dragon 2? So much I read news articles on my phone at the ( Read more... )

In which I will endeavor to convince you to watch an old teevee series from 2006 that only lasted a season and a half and starred no one you've probably ever heard of and is set in Kansas...


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BTW, this icon is my younger son with his preferred reading method as a toddler. Hold with the feet, turn with the hands, a whole body reader.

Here is the Epigraph to The Prisoner of Heaven which sucked me in. I am taking a break with Great Expectations but expect to buy books 1 and 2 in the Cemetery cycle soon. Debating on paper or pixels at the ( Read more... )

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