This was my first year participating in Yuletide, and it was a lot of fun. And now I can officially thank my authors, glaikery and scribblemoose. I hope you both had fun writing my somewhat oddly-phrased requests, and I adored your stories. Thank you!

This is still not the post I want to be making, but just quickly: my parents got me one of the This American Life compilations for Christmas, and it included the famous segment on The Best Phone Message in the World, which is Act One of this episode. (In case you're not quite sure you know what I'm talking about, it's the message about the Little ( Read more... )

There are several posts I want to make soon (note to self: my three favorite Chicago stories right now and what books should I buy with my gift cards), but I'm just going to make this one. I know I've posted this here before, but I like to be reminded of it at the end of the year.

Three years ago now, my friend aspasia82 made me the most beautiful book ( Read more... )

Yuletide!

I was lucky enough to get two stories. My main story, Curiosity, (Scott Lynch - the Gentlemen Bastards Sequence) was so good that it actually brought tears to my eyes. All I can say is that this is a fantastic piece of writing on every level, and I'm so glad it exists. If you have any familiarity at all with these books, you really ( Read more... )

Good poem of the day. I usually post these without comment, but I have to say this is probably one of my favorite discoveries. I just saw it on today's Writer's Almanac, but I feel like I'm going to remember it for a long time.

Farewell to Teaching ( Read more... )

I did my voice post meme but seem to have somehow set them so they were only visible to me for a while, and then to some weird lock, but now they are here and here. Also, the poems I read are: part of John Berryman's Eleven Addresses to the Lord for desertport and Delmore Schwartz's Dogs are Shakespearean, Children are Strangers for katjadIf you see me doing ( Read more... )

Good poem of the day:

Failure ( Read more... )

A MAN WAS WALKING A CORGI DOWN MY BLOCK TODAY OMG I ALMOST WENT INSANE. (I love Corgis more than almost anything. As you can perhaps tell.) He was smiling. (The Corgi, not his owner.) I wanted to pick him up under one arm and run away ( Read more... )

Good poem of the day: I think I've posted this here about 18 times, but I'm thinking of using it for something in my class tomorrow, so here it is again.

Eleven Address to the Lord - #4 ( Read more... )

Aw, thank you guys for all the birthday wishes - you're very, very kind. My friends are here and today we attended one of the most ridiculous events I've ever had the pleasure of experiencing, but more on that later. I got a massive haul of gifts from Lush and all kinds of entertainingly hilarious gifts from my friends. More later, but: <3 <3