Today I was suddenly possessed by an imperative to carpe all the diems, and have, with something like half hour notice between the decision and the doing, proceeded with yet another new venture, which I'd been vaguely contemplating as perhaps a thing to attempt someday, but had never gathered the round tuits ( Read more... )

One day after my first directorial rehearsal, and what I am is giddy. My second-best analogy is that I am feeling like I might after a good first date - breathless, excited by the experience and the novelty, and no small amount of terrified of messing it up ( Read more... )

Sometime in November I had discovered that I had a week more use-or-lose vacation time than I'm used to, so we planned a last-ish minute trip. England seemed like a relatively easy vacation to take with minimal foresight. And so, Spouse and I went on the first trip we've had since our honeymoon 1. together 2. not involving a convention or work 3 ( Read more... )

So a prosletyzer just knocked on my door. A woman with a small child, with another woman-child set lurking in the driveway. Because the weather is lovely and such things amuse me, in response to the very polite inquiry if I were willing to talk about the Bible I stepped outside to join her on the porch. The topic, she said, was pornography. ( Read more... )

Slowly getting un-jetlagged ( Read more... )

Work, work... I think I'm getting adjusted to the local time zone, which is not at all a good thing - I'd rather feel like I'm waking up at 9am East Coast time than 6am local. At this rate, I'll be all about West Coast schedule right in time to go home ( Read more... )

So, I'm in Vegas this week. All week, starting last Friday, going home Thursday ( Read more... )

If there's a nice con to attend-rather-than-work, Capclave is surely it ( Read more... )

Walking up the stairs to the fourth floor office this morning I got distracted and found myself on the fifth. I wasn't running late, so I decided to attempt something I used to do about monthly when the office was on the twelfth floor, and haven't tried since we moved in spring ( Read more... )

Unlike many of my friends, two weeks ago I did not make the "end of an era" post - it ain't over until it's good and over.

( Well, now it's over )