Today I worked with New Hire (upon whom I will bestow a nickname once I know her a little better) for the first time. She seems nice and also competent -- a winning combination ( Read more... )

I got back up to Cornell today -- as on Friday, I took a bus because climbing East Hill in the cold is not my idea of a fun time, and climbing East Hill in the cold on icy sidewalks is even less appealing -- and am now the happy owner of a Cornell University library card ( Read more... )

Today I failed at retrieving books from Cornell. It turns out that Olin library has a bunch of the books I'm interested in, and they are available for borrowing rather than the kind of huge and/or delicate reference texts that cannot be removed from the building. Yay! However, it further turns out that in order for a member of the general public ( Read more... )

I'm still doing research. So much research. All the research -- you have no idea. I did not get up to Cornell today, though I spent a pleasant 45 minutes in the local used book store flipping through indexes and wondering why the two really useful "general background what-life-was-like" books were both centered on the previous century to the one ( Read more... )

I came back from Thanksgiving not only with a bunch of leftovers (I will return the tupperware and extra cooler at Christmas), but also with a new spider plant -- apparently my mom was serious about getting rid of all of hers. Oh well, more for me! :-)


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1. First, some stuff about work ( Read more... )

Mom came up yesterday for a brief visit, even though both she and I were still fighting the dregs of our respective Colds of Doom. She is a morning person, so she left New Jersey around 6:30am and arrived at my apartment shortly after 10:30am ( Read more... )

Have received my Yuletide assignment. Am both excited and terrified.

Therefore, research. All the research. Because while I have the canon to hand and mostly to mind as well (these are not always the same thing, obviously!), I am not, shall we say, at all confident in my ability to get a lot of background details right based on canon alone ( Read more... )

When the signups opened, I spent several hours browsing through the tagset, both to see what I could offer and to find things I wanted to request. These do not always overlap, you see -- there are a lot of childhood literary fandoms I love to pieces and am thrilled to write for, but that is not the same as a burning desire to read a particular ( Read more... )

I am debating how much deadline adrenaline rush I want to surf this holiday season. I mean, I am doing Yuletide; that is non-negotiable. I will probably also do Ladystuck again, because fuck yeah Homestuck and fuck yeah female character-centric fanworks! The thing is, this year there is apparently also a Homestuck-only holiday fic and art ( Read more... )