Yesterday, I notarized some documents for one of my co-workers so she could become a minister in order to officiate at her daughter's wedding (I was going to say "so she could marry her daughter" but I know how you lot would take that), and today she showed me her certificate of ordination (or whatever it's actually called) plus she gets a " ( Read more... )

Books!

What I've just finished
Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was by Angélica Gorodischer (translated by Ursula K. Le Guin), which is beautifully written on a sentence by sentence level (I imagine it must be, since the translation is beautiful), and full of interesting stories of an Empire that never existed, and the people who ( Read more... )

Given my confusion around comics eligibility for yuletide, I did decide to pull together a brief evidence post for both We Are Robin and Gotham Academy, and I figured I'd throw it out to you all first to see if I hit the right notes (i.e., they're related to the Batman family of comics but they do not require knowledge of ongoing Bat books, nor do ( Read more... )

I left about 15 minutes early this morning and just took the 6 - the fastest, most direct way to get to work, even if I hate it - because the MTA's vague yet foreboding emails ("Trains may skip stops or they may run as regularly scheduled. We just don't know. Listen for announcements.") made me a little concerned (I was going to skip the crosstown ( Read more... )

Today's poem:

Civilization
by Carl Phillips

There's an art
    to everything. How
the rain means
    April and an ongoing-ness like
    that of song until at last

it ends. A centuries-old
    set of silver handbells that
once an altar boy swung,
    processing . . . You're the same ( Read more... )

So I just got a new iPhone 6 (I was eligible for an upgrade), and I was originally going to do a poll about what case I should get, but the deal came with a fancy Lifeproof case for free, and since it's not bulky (and I don't know how to get it off), I guess I'll allow it. But it's also white and blah, so I would like to put a sticker or two on it ( Read more... )

Ugh back at work. So busy. Blah blah blah.

The internets tell me that WB/DC has actually scheduled a Wonder Woman movie for 2017 (see also here). Prayer circle that it actually happens and that it's actually good.

There's also a Suicide Squad movie listed, which - I keep meaning to read Suicide Squad, but I'm not sure exactly what parts are the ( Read more... )

Okay, following on my post about workshopping a yuletide letter the other day, here is a draft of my "dear yuletide author" letter. I've split it into the intro section, which has general likes/dislikes, and then the requests I definitely want to make, and then the requests that could fit into the open slot. The intro is what I've used the last few ( Read more... )

I forgot to mention it yesterday, but I did end up baking a lemon cake (pic) to replace the moldy crumb cake for the rest of the week. And zomg, this cake is AMAZING. Easy to make and highly recommended, and if you have nut allergies, you could probably just use cake flour for the whole thing, or replace the almond meal with corn meal, though that' ( Read more... )

Last night, I had to take TWO benadryls to be able to sleep because I was suddenly attacked by HIVES at bedtime. ( nothing graphic, but it might count as tmi? I don't even know anymore )