Yesterday at work, they decided to "add some new responsibilities" to my job description. I'm not going to delve into the details here, but I'm furious and hurt, and I'm fairly sure that I'll be looking for a new job during 2008 ( Read more... )

Six Apart sold LiveJournal! How strange. I hope this means some positive changes in the way situations are handled.

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Is this awesome, or what?

http://www.entropyhouse.com/penwiper/who/extermaknit.html

*adding it to my list of future knitting projects*

Okay, my boys aren't home tonight and I'm bored. Meme time!

Name five bands/musicians from your lifetime who are absolutely tied to one (or two) decades in the past, and could absolutely not make a comeback today.

Here are mine:
1. Abba
2. Christopher Cross
3. REO Speedwagon
4. Kenny Loggins (love him anyway)
5. Bee Gees

Why am I having such a hard time finding Doctor Who Season 2 screencaps? Is that one of those shows that threatens to prosecute the fan sites for posting pics? Or am I just too dumb to know where to look?

Since subboy is always singing the praises of the Pacific Northwest microbrews, I thought I'd chime in and stand up for the Great Lakes microbrews. I love them so. There are so many microbreweries in the Great Lakes region of the US, but I'm going to mention only those that are most readily available down here where I live.
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I'm trying a different sort of writing technique to keep me going. It's one that I learned in my first creative writing class, years ago, from a sweet prof who always wore black, smoked too much, complained endlessly about her love life, started and ended relationships in spectacularly embarrassing ways, and frequently pretended to hear people ( Read more... )

My blood pressure is up today. Wah! Of course, I'm not sure I trust the student who was practicing on me, so maybe my blood pressure is actually okay. I'm going to have to go check it somewhere else later. Still, it was unsettling to see his eyes get all wide when he told me that the top number was over 140.

Okay, so I'm not going to confess to participating in Nanowrimo. Really. If I confessed to that, something would happen to prevent me writing another word for the rest of November. I'd probably get ten broken fingers or temporary amnesia or something. And with my life being as hectic as it is, there's no way I could ever finish a novel in one ( Read more... )