Okay, so. We're going to be able to beg, borrow and steal the money we need by April 15--more like "borrow, charge and scrape together"--but then of course we'll have to pay it back and/or off. But we're not immediately screwed. Also, I went and found my cache of hardback 15M books, and there's only six--even fewer than I thought. Woe ( Read more... )

Just a few quick things:

From particle_person: Wikipedia's comprehensive list of April Fool's website gags.

News stories I would not trust further than I could throw them: ( Read more... )

A sleepy day. Gave the dogs haircuts, because they had lost their faces. Struggling through some of the later Sherlock Holmes stories, because, while I love them, "The Adventure of the Three Gables" is just bad. Next up is "The Sussex Vampire," though, and I'm really excited because I've actually never read the last collection of Holmes stories, so ( Read more... )

So. Massive catch-up linkspam. Watched the Eliot Spitzer resignation press conference (well, "conference"; he didn't take any questions. Didn't actually seem contrite, either); nearly finished with the prostitution section of Mayhew's London Underworld. Watched American Idol and its 2000 mentions of Horton Hears a Who; did not think Jim Carrey had ( Read more... )

Ugh. I'm getting really depressed--not so much moodwise as just functionally, physically depressed. I don't even want to leave the house looking and feeling like this, much less do anything. Like I said before, I think it's seasonally related. It just sucks. Fortunately I have a hair appointment on Monday, which I think should help at least a ( Read more... )

So... I had a shitty evening last night. My blood pressure still feels a little high today. Hurrah. Here was the one bright spot: I was at TV Tropes going through the Characters as Device list when I saw "The Littlest Cancer Patient" and went, "Aww, hey, that's like the thing I used in the... omg."

Presumably, the name of this trope is a ( Read more... )

Am I the only one who could be completely content with only one scoop of raisins in my Raisin Bran? Seriously, I keep having to shake them to the bottom of the box.

The most magnificent sentence I have seen in a nonfiction book in quite some time (The Victorian Underworld, Donald Thomas, page 151): "Time stood still, so that it seemed to be ( Read more... )

I'm several days behind on the 'spam, so I harvested as much as I could off Google Reader before I just lost my will to spam completely. Because there was a lot.

( Spaaaaam )

Okay, I have a completely random, wank thought-provoking question to ask, in terms of random feedback. You know, the kind of feedback that you get after something's finished, not when you're actually still in revision mode. Actually, let me back up and ask a preliminary question: those of y'all who write, am I totally crazy for thinking there's a ( Read more... )

In case you missed it last night, I did post Cloverfield in Fifteen Minutes at m15m. I feel pretty good about the way it turned out, and then the dogs spent the day at the vet getting baths, so I had a whole day to do whatever I wanted wherever I wanted to do it (bonus!). Of course, I'm glad they'll be home again in about an hour.

( Heath Ledger )