Why is it that whenever I get sick, as soon as I start to recover, my sinuses start freaking out? The end-result is a Jen that is feeling much better but hacking up a lung and blowing mucus all over the place :P ( Read more... )

Brian and I have started looking at houses. We have an online list of potential properties to go through. One of them had a veranda so big and wide, covered all with white wicker furniture, that I wanted to sit back, fan myself and have a mint julep. Brian had the urge to put on a white suit and about two hundred pounds. It's the kind of ( Read more... )

For some unfathomable reason, I think it would be funny to write a character who reacts to every situation/comment/question by shouting "You take that back!!" and punching the speaker in the face ( Read more... )

Me: Man, I'm glad my muse isn't inundating me with random ideas for other novels, because between my Nano-editing, my Sekrit Santa short story, and the unfinished first draft of the Sira story waiting patiently on the backburner, I'm going to have plenty to keep me occupied in the coming months. That's it, muse, whatever you do, DON'T come up with ( Read more... )

For something different, a short post that is a question ( Read more... )

...is one of those songs that you hear in bits and pieces, "quoted" and riffed upon in film and TV and cartoons. Less often is it heard in its entirety. It's like the musical version of Casablanca: the first time I saw that movie, the vast majority of its lines were already well-worn and familiar to me, so long have they been in the pop-cultural ( Read more... )

Over the weekend, I finished reading two books, so I picked up another two from my "To be read" shelf. I tend to read multiple books at once, depending on where I am. There's the book on the dining room table that's for reading while eating; there's the book in my bookbag for reading during my commute to and from work (and maybe over lunch break ( Read more... )

Well. This is interesting. Looks like Righty has made a full recovery ( Read more... )

Obama is a very polarizing figure. I think it would be a funny thing to show up at a protest (or any protest, really) with signs that are very indifferent or middle-of-the-road ( Read more... )

Here's a thought: playing Decemberists characters at an Anime LARP! You could be the Mariner, the Bagman, the Gymnast High Above the Ground, the Infanta, the Crane Wife, Eli the Barrow Boy, Billy Liar, a Chimbley Sweep, etc....or you could just play a generic castaway. Or a cutout ( Read more... )