I had a lovely time at the Dead Poets' Retreat this past weekend. Probably the most relaxing 2 days I've had in months, and full of artistic goodness, of writing and journaling, of music and conversation, and the sound of running water and wind through tree branches ( Read more... )

Hmmmm. I was all prepared to hop on LJ at my break and scream SOMEBODY GET ME OUT OF THIS MADHOUSE!!!!11!1 ( Read more... )

Worst thing about being sick: the week or so afterwards when just doing normal stuff exhausts one.

Seriously. I wanted to get some more writing done this week, and while I've done a bit (mistraltoes, I may need a Numb3rs beta in a week or two here), I could have done a lot more. At least I have an excuse of sorts, I suppose. *g ( Read more... )

Well, the city proper, anyway. The air is nasty, full of smoke; when I came out of work yesterday, the sky was brown and tiny bits of white ash were falling ( Read more... )

And it's not like I've been insanely busy or anything. Work has been kind of boring, and finally things are starting to settle down some at the new house.

Actually, that's probably the issue: I finally have time to start playing catchup with my writing, and that *is* taking up a lot of my time. Right now, I've just finished a Numb3rs fic which ( Read more... )

Okay, so, tomorrow I get on a plane and fly off to the O'Hare airport in Chicago. I won't be back till Tuesday night, and may not have any chance at all to get online during that time, so expect no comments or emails. Feel free to *send* me emails and stuff, though. I'll get them all when I get home Tuesday night or the next day ( Read more... )

So, my "real" post. Heh.

Okay. I'm slowly recovering from a lovely vacation in the Eastern Time Zone, visiting whitemartyr, and also V.-who-has-no-LJ. *blows kisses to both* There was much fun had, not least of which was me getting to see fireflies for the very first time! They're so beautiful and random, glowing construction-light yellow, and so mellow ( Read more... )

Check out the icon: it was made for me by jd3000. Isn't it pretty? *admires ( Read more... )