I've been enjoying Tumblr. No, really, I have. Who wouldn't? All those keen young minds and up-to-date whatever, I don't know, I mean John Green is on there, and Rainbow Rowell, probably ( Read more... )

I know: anything that comes after that sentence is my own damn fault.

But I'm glad I'm reading it, because book two appears to be the point where I start finding the series hilarious. (I have had an ear infection and a fever for three days now. That's...probably not a non sequitor.)

Having run out of plot ( (spoiler cut?) )

Inspired by all the trans-ethnic demiromantic demisexual cat-otherkin on Tumblr, I have decided to attempt to define myself, for my own amusement and the possible benefit of friends and passing strangers.

1. I am Elderly.

1.1. Memo to self: invest in drape-y clothes, shapeless dresses, possibly shawls.

2. I have been Mummified. This renders my life ( Read more... )

1. Check out this online bookstore. And this Paperback Swap bookshelf, while you're at it.

2. Speaking of books, if anyone's looking to hire a good copy editor, you can reach one at esthernidhonnacha@gmail.com. I may actually make use of that myself, one of these days. Hmmmm.

3. Kimagine's Etsy shop is full of pretty things. She makes these ( Read more... )

You know how Bertie Wooster`s Aunt Dahlia is always asking her husband to cut large cheques to cover the cost of My Lady`s Boudoir until it turns a corner ( Read more... )

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I have that exhausted-before-I-start feeling that I shouldn`t even bother posting this, but I`m going to anyway, because I`ve been commenting publicly (at Turimel`s and Abbey`s posts), and I just want to clarify what I`ve been thinking lately.

( I'll be merciful and stick this behind a cut under the assumption that most people, quite rightly, don't care what I think about this. )

"I don't believe that children can develop in a healthy way unless they feel that they have value apart from anything they own or any skill that they learn. They need to feel that they enhance the life of someone else, that they are needed. Who, better than parents, can let them know that?"
~Fred Rogers, "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" This entry was ( Read more... )

So I shall escape into domestic tranquility, as is my wont. Today: will start reading mystery novel (one fromt he delicious STACK that sprang up in response to my birthday); will enjoy time in the sunshine with Princess Blob and Sir Widget; will daydream about upcoming house and garden.

Will, in short, do my best to create self-chosen alternative

Since lj is having problems, does anyone want a dreamwidth code? To back up your entries, if nothing else--dw imports them, should you want that.