So I'm finally back in Chicago, after a lengthy string of shenanigans.

It was a pretty good visit home, all things considered. Tuesday night we went out to a concert at the Kennedy Center - "the Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber." I know it's not what the 'cool kids' think, but I do really enjoy his music, so that was a lot of fun. Selections from ( Read more... )

Flight tonight was cancelled. At least they notified me relatively early. As a result I am flying out of BWI at ass-thirty (aka 6 am) tomorrow. *shrieks irritably* aaaaaaaargh wtf, Chicago, I hate you ( Read more... )

Eeeeeeee, Christmas!

So I had flown home for Christmas, and my Nana and Georgann came up, and Aunt Snooze drove up on Christmas Eve, and rabbitbenrin also arrived on Christmas Eve. An infinite amount of awesome was had. (Made slightly sad by the fact that rabbitbenrin apparently had mild food poisoning on Christmas Eve, and I had the cold of death, but ah well. Them's ( Read more... )

I love Christmas. I love it a lot. As annoying as I find the constant glut of "buy this for your significant other!" "buy that for your officemate!" "this is the perfect gift!" - as much as all of that annoys me, things like finding the right gift for someone really just make me do the happy bouncy thing. I love giving gifts. I had a blast ( Read more... )

I have a bunch of things I want to talk about here; co-authoring (thanks Sev!) and plotbunny generation, modes of story-telling (I blame justira because this totally wasn't on my radar AT ALL until her massive post), voice and point of view, beating writer's block, et cetera. However, my head feels like it just may explode, and thus we're moving onward ( Read more... )

So I got to hang out with celeloriel on Thursday, when we went out to dinner and roamed around the mall, and played with shiny things, and it was awesome. Friday Mom and Dad arrived, and we've been kinda running around since then. We decorated my first Christmas tree (there are pictures) and went to Lawry's for dinner on Saturday. Yesterday we went to ( Read more... )

Well, it's been a busy couple of days. I need to work on my yuletide fic still, but eh. I'll probably go back to that in a moment. I went to get the car's oil changed today and was informed that the Service Engine Soon light is because I have a faulty sensor in my transmission, so I'll have to deal with that sooner or later. *sigh* Apparently my car ( Read more... )

Today was awful. first_seventhe made it better with shinies. I hearts her. ♥ LESSTHANTHREE, Sev. We will write more than 200 emails this week I SWEAR. If I have to spam you drabbles one line at a time, I WILL DO IT. You think I'm joking ( Read more... )

Okay, returning to the Thursday Thoughts since I am not in fact drowning under other obligations right now! (Hey look, NaNoWriMo is over and I start updating LJ again. Coincidence? I think not ( Read more... )

Holy shit ( Read more... )