Guess who got a steady freelance writing gig? I'm pretty excited about the prospect of having an income. I'm writing articles for eHow, which is not all that much fun because most articles are bizarrely specific and/or technical, but whatevs, it pays and it's good experience ( Read more... )

Give me your smile in your green silk dress ( Read more... )

Finally got my over-a-month-late birthday presents from Sarah. Mostly. She says she's also working on making a necklace for me but still isn't done. I forgive her for being late, she's cute. And very very busy. And she knew just what to get me anyhow.

Stories edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrontonio (YES! Cancelling my hold at the library!)
How ( Read more... )

New things:

Got some birthday presents in the mail, after a terrifying two days where I was sure they were lost because my mom sent them Priority Mail and they didn't arrive the day they were supposed to.
All books this year, surprise surprise:
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis (LOVE LOVE LOVE, if you love SFF at all or even a little bit ( Read more... )

KITTY POST.

( Unbearable cuteness after the cut )

At home and feeling nostalgic. Here, have one of the very first stories I ever wrote (co-written with my first best friend Jenna Miller), for a first-grade assignment to write a story about the newly-discovered pulsar PSR1257+12. (You can assume that each time we metnion PSR1257+12, we actually mean one of the three planets orbiting the pulsar in ( Read more... )

Oh gosh. It turns out Sarah is an amazingly talented artist. She showed me all these sculptures she had done at her mom's house and every time it was like, "You made that?! *squeak*" If I were a cartoon there would be little pink hearts floating around my head ( Read more... )

Yup. :D

Dear Ms. Labbé ( Read more... )

ALA Day Two:

I'll cut to the chase. Yes I saw Al Gore. Yes it was AWESOME.

He was giving a talk on his new climate change book, which he described as the inverse of An Inconvenient Truth-- that one was ( Read more... )