Lightithebox.com is *fascinating*, you guys ( Read more... )

Hour 1: Dark Omens

Zipcar reservation is from 6-8 PM: in theory, more than enough time to drop off Aralis bins at arianhwyvar's house and get back for dinner. I haul the Temple bin across the street, find the car, and try to unlock it. No dice ( Read more... )

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I've generally been using either G+ or my authorial blog rather than LJ. But this isn't really an author thing, and G+ doesn't allow cuts.

So:

( Girl Stuff. Possible TMI. )

By which I mean: Wordle!


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The local used bookstore has a copy of, I swear, Freshman Passion . The novel itself seems to be standard older-YA fare of the mid-nineties Sweet Valley High variety: lots of pairings and fights, not much actual sex, and the occasional vehicular manslaughter or act of arson ( Read more... )

...yeah, not sure where that last one came from ( Read more... )

6 AM: Wake up. Shower and dress in Aralis costume. Outside, it's looking like a nice day. Mom hands me coffee and observes that I look like a Disney heroine. I take a look around at Bethel, which has something like two streets ( Read more... )

...which I guess would be the bit with Telemachus and the suitors. Only for "suitors" read "many, many nice middle-aged folks in formal dress", which is probably better and involves fewer people getting killed with arrows at the end ( Read more... )

Disclaimer: This is a rant. Odds are it doesn't apply to you personally. If I hang out with you, it doesn't; if it did apply to you, I would not be hanging out with you. You can be pretty damn sure about that ( Read more... )