Oh, let’s see… what’s been going on in Lisa Land, other than lamenting over depressing TV shows and jubilating over books?

Hmm… took the kayaks out on Lake Lanier this last weekend - it was their first trip out on “still” water.  I use the quotes because the lake was anything but still with as much motor boat traffic as there was… silly me, ( Read more... )

BUUUUH >Doctor Who is a stoopid stoopid show and I'm not going to watch it anymore.  No season 3 for me, ever.  I don't know why all you mean people told me I should watch it, when it's clearly made just to spite me and make me a sad, sad lisa.  I don't love any of you, just like I'm never going to watch more Doctor Who ever ever again *bursts into ( Read more... )

I’ve noticed an interesting phenomenon the last couple of times I’ve traveled for work: I get more lonely and homesick when I socialize with people than when I spend trips entirely to myself.  Isn’t that odd?  I first made the observation when I traveled to Miami and I was forced to share a rental car, so I was around people much more often than ( Read more... )

Much to my surprise, a certain someone has managed to sneak out a book release without me knowing.  This is both an area of chagrin ("Ayah!  It's been out for more than a day and I didn't know!") and jubilation ("AAAAH!  BOOK SQUEE!!!") for me, so after my most horrible, awful day at work today, I set out to find a copy.  3 book stores and nearly ( Read more... )

Would anyone like to tell me how I fucked up Wednesday so badly?  Not only did I have reservations for my birthday dinner, but I also promised Slinky we'd do Martinis and Maki, then told Travis (and
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!  BOOK SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! *splode*

I have no idea what got me thinking about checking up on Mr. Dahlquist, author of the absolutely delightful book Glass Books of the Dream Eaters... but I decided to poke about for info today, and discovered that a sequel has just come out, only in the UK.  There are not words for ( Read more... )

I’m 19 floors up here in my office, and a little starling has decided that the ledge of my floor-to-ceiling window is his new favorite perch.  I’m fairly sound insulated up here, but since the metal ledge runs both inside and out, I can here his little feet go “taptaptaptaptap” as he trots back and forth.  He’s been hanging out most of the week now ( Read more... )

I got really sleepy about 20 minutes ago, which is extremely unlike me at work regardless of how bored I am.  A minute later I was shuffling some papers around and bumped my coffee cup... and realized I only drank like a quarter of it this morning.  No wonder I’m a zombie.  Caffeine is flowing to my face again, now, so maybe that will help matters.
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Oh gods the updates!  I’ve been trying for a week to get some update-age here, but I’ve just been so busy that it keeps falling by the wayside.  So - here’s some text in severely abbreviated format!

The Big Kayaking Trip
This is the thing I wanted to ramble about the most - over memorial day weekend, we did a 24 mile kayaking trip down the ( Read more... )

The guy who runs my company’s travel helpline is so very awesome.  The travel booking site is pretty much crap... if you want to change ANYthing you have to call in and get help.  This is obviously usually the sort of thing that would make one grumpy, but the guy who mans the phone there is just so brilliant (and can you say FABU-lous!!) that I ( Read more... )