Thanks to a combination of family get-togethers and migraines (fortunately mostly alternating and not concurrent) I have not been around much since, oh, Thursday. I spent a whole lot more of Friday evening and today sleeping off migraines than I wanted to. The upshot of this is, I owe people RP tags, and I seem to have missed several people on my ( Read more... )

My seven year old niece's dress rehearsal for her dance recital was tonight, and she always talks me into going to the dress rehearsal. Or, y'know, she asks me to go and I cave. So it's a good four hours of watching girls (and one boy) ages 3-18 dance. Tomorrow it'll be another four hours watching them do it all again. But hey. One day she won ( Read more... )

I'm going out of town (WAAY out of town) next week--leaving Sunday morning, getting home sometime Friday. When I get back, I will tell you what's in Mentone, Texas, which is the only town in Loving County. Also, I might have things to say about San Angelo, Van Horn, and Guadalupe State Park. Also Carlsbad Caverns, assuming I don't chicken out. ( ( Read more... )

My six-year-old niece is awesomesauce. And, OK, a bit of a drama princess. Denise took her down by the bay (they live right off it) and was letting her scramble around on the rocks, and Michaela turns to her and says (you have to imagine a very serious Victorian child voice here), "Mommy, take my hand so I don't fall into the cruel ocean ( Read more... )

Well, yesterday started off well. I wrote 1000 words of Nine/Jack h/c for taffimai (It's about 2/3 done--sorry, hon, I think it's physically impossible to write a short Nine/Jack h/c fic. Also, I may have hurt the wrong one, but I hope you won't hold that against me) and then I went to run errands ( Read more... )

First off, thanks so very, very much to all the folks who wished me luck and told me I'm awesome, because it made me feel SO MUCH BETTER. Seriously. I did pretty well on the "not sounding like an idiot because I'm nervous" aspect of the interview, and I give a lot of the credit for that to you. (Heh--I might've actually made a bit of a list in ( Read more... )