I've been shaking and sighing for over an hour now, and I still haven't quite come down from the high. This is seriously up there in personal accomplishments - okay, let me explain, that tonight I found this post espousing their love for Put On Your Face, with great and deep praise that had me grinning like a loon, and here, and let me quote:

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I can now say with complete certainty and truth I've shook the hand of a knight. Sir Terry Pratchett came to New York this weekend, and I was there in line to say hello ( Read more... )

Thieved from nightdog_barks: Post three whole paragraphs from every WIP you're currently working on, even if it's very short. Then invite people to ask questions about your WIP. With any luck, you'll get talking about writing, and the motivation to take that WIP one step closer to completion will appear as if by magic!I've just got the one WIP, post-war Scout ( Read more... )

Friday hit 80 degrees Fahrenheit around four in the afternoon. Saturday was more subdued, around sixty, overcast but not cool. Yesterday it was drizzling just enough to make walking unprotected difficult, and a little nip to the air - finally, sweatshirt weather. Today was much the same, with enough chill to make a sweatshirt nice, but unnecessary ( Read more... )

This is for neotoma and tiny_antares. And everyone who likes fictional anthropology.

I had a moment of great jubilation when I got to the fourth season of Supernatural - not just because the plot was kicking into high gear, not just because of Misha Collins, not just because the effects budget had been increased to about $72 per episode up from $65. A lot of it was ( Read more... )

I've got three Dreamwidth invite codes. Anyone out there reading this want one?

Let it be known that today I cleaned 1900 items out of my inbox. Go me ( Read more... )

No writing today, but other forms of productivity were had. And hopefully, more writing soon because of that - I've got enough stuff in my fridge I won't need to worry about food until next Sunday, and even then it'll be minimal. What's more, next Monday is a federal holiday, which might mean another four-day working week. Which, if I do it right, ( Read more... )

I managed to coordinate multiple recipes tonight - timing cooking dinner against the first long rise of the bread, letting the chicken simmer while I prepared the loaves for the second rise, and finishing everything up at its own pace. Both of them came out lovely, and tomorrow, I might do something similar, assuming I find another bread recipe ( Read more... )

Taken from linaelyn. And I'm with her on multi-purpose saucepans.

Bold the ones you have and use at least once a year, italicize the ones you have and don't use, strike through the ones you have had but got rid of:

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I wonder how many pasta machines, breadmakers, juicers, blenders, deep fat fryers, egg boilers, melon ballers, sandwich makers, pastry ( Read more... )