Again, thank y'all so much for all the New York suggestions, because my mother and I put together a packet for her based off them, and then Sister Girl went and left it in the car at the airport. So I was able to go back to the comments and reconstruct much of it--the names and links, anyway--and email it to her ( Read more... )

Tomorrow looks like it may be a busy day, so let's go ahead and deal with the linkspam pileup before it gets even worse:

( Linkspam that somehow includes what I was doing at three in the morning )

Re: yesterday's Scientology raids: laughingacademy dropped me a link to deathboy's London writeup, in which he saw "500 people rick-rolling [i.e., playing Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up." Don't ask me] the UK Scientology head office. It was at this point I saw the corners of the cops' mouths twitch into smiles as they realised it was ok: we were from the ( 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... )

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 )

Finished! Eight hundred and eighty-eight pages of Ray Bradbury, and I'm finished. And there's a ton of stories they didn't even include. Amazing. No idea what I'll read next, though. Possibly the nonfiction one about William James investigating Spiritualism ( Read more... )

Sister Girl and I were talking just now, and I was telling her about this History of the Universe show Mom was watching (I think?), and how some of the people on it were, like, the dumbest people ever. ( Lauren, I think you're in the wrong field )

I showered and laundered today, and then lay down for five hours to recover. Ah, Norovirus. Also, I managed to eat a bowl of tomato soup (garnished liberally with crushed saltines) for dinner last night; for lunch today, I had another bowl and a grilled cheese sandwich (!). Felt a little oogy, and spent most of the afternoon digesting it, but ( Read more... )

Reading Virginia Rounding's Grandes Horizontales and feeling kinda oogy. May be just because I took my meds late today, but I also have a little congestion and can't taste much, so who knows. (And what's with this crick in my wrist?) Still ought to put up a little linkspam, though.

( A post-holiday excellence of linkspam )

Oh my God, I meant to post this last week and then... things happened: there's a new HP e-zine, Cauldrons and Chocolate Frogs, and I did an interview with them a few weeks ago. I haven't read over the posted interview, but a quick glance makes me think it's fairly close to the original IM transcript, so, you know, very little chance of anything I ( Read more... )