She may write books that focus on whiny, weak, ineffective and often idiotic characters, books that take an effort of will to slog through, but I'll say this much for her: in the end, she always delivers one hell of a storygasm.

Robin Hobb, my hat tips to you.

I never update this thing, because while I find my own life fascinating, I can't see why anyone else would. But occasionally my internet attention-whore self will surface in a spurt of bullet point summations about what's going on. Now is apparently one of those times, despite my urgent need to get to sleep ( Read more... )

My brother Dan is quoted in the New York Times! And tomorrow night he might be filmed for fox news. Way to go Dan!http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/05/surprisingly-family-time-

So, I'm finally reaching my limit for romance novels. I love reading them, and thought I could never get enough, but up til now I've always balanced out the sugar with some good clean science fiction. But in the last two or three years or so, I've noticed an upsetting trend: my romance genre is sneakily infiltrating my SF. It used to be I loved a ( Read more... )

Meh. Just meh. Maybe has potential...but at this point it's Family Guy minus anything funny. Not worth another 23 minutes of my life.

However, Family Guy and American Dad are still fantastic. I suspect simpsons is too, but I missed it tonight.

So, my gremlin powers flared up again last night, and my computer died. now I have to call dell for a replacement hard drive, which they claim they'll send me for free, so long as I promise to give them back the damaged one. Jeff says he can recover my data and trasnfer it, so overall not too terrible. But it does mean I won't have much in the way ( Read more... )

normally, when I have nightmares, there's nothing actually scary going on. Just me wandering around a darkened area with an unnamed sense of terror flooding my brain ( Read more... )

Home again home again. Vermont was lovely, despite the giant bruise I got on my shin when the forest decided to bite me. It remains my favorite region of the states (or world, really, since I haven't gotten out of the states ever) and I'll miss it very much until next year. But on the other hand, it's really, really nice to see places that are open ( Read more... )

Heading off to the mountains tomorrow morning, and won't be back til late on the 30th. no internet, and potentially spotty cell reception. See you all when I get back!

running over children on scooters when I've got a giant bumper car = best dream ever