Dragoncon has a way of causing the the most carefully laid plans of mice, men, klingons, and elves gang vastly agley. Today's plan: put on Susan Death costume, hit the "Vampire Diaries" extras casting call, pick up my wig in the Dealers' Room, and register our group for the YA Lit costume contest ( Read more... )

It's hard to be spontaneous when you have a toddler, but last night kitanzi and autographedcat facilitated a totally spontaneous date night for me and Aaron. I noticed he and I both had the evening free, and asked them if they'd be willing to babysit for us so we could go see the new Star Trek movie. It worked out perfectly--we drove up to Alpharetta, parked Z with ( Read more... )

By request, for a DCTV shoot...


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Saturday morning we thought we'd get breakfast at the hotel buffet. We were sadly deluded--not only the buffet but every restaurant in the hotel had lines out the door and into the casino. All right, there was a Denny's across the street...no, that had a line too. We ended up having our Christmas brunch at McDonalds. Struck with an incongruous ( Read more... )