I tripped (over nothing that I could afterward perceive) on Friday, just walking with Crystal and Susan (Susan being a companion of the border collie variety), and took a rather violent flight directly into the sidewalk. My knee hit the cement first, followed fairly quickly by my hands. My head missed a decorative brick lining a little flower bed ( Read more... )

The Cinco de Mayo proofreading project is FINISHED! The last two days, the final push, have been crazy-making, and I've been extremely stressed, not sleeping well, fretting about what needed to be done and how much time I had to do it, and now, with the project finished and deposited back with the publisher, I feel a lot like a deflated balloon, ( Read more... )

It's funny how, when you buy something like a coat rack from Amazon, their recommendation algorithm decides that you just love coat racks in general, and begins recommending a wide variety of them to you. I mean, how many coat racks can one person need? Or if I buy headphones for my iPod ... you know, that doesn't mean that I want to buy lots and ( Read more... )