Okay - the next time I go outside for a run and within a minute the wind is leaking water from my eyes that is freezing on my eyelashes?  Yeah - I'm just going to turn the hell around and go back in.

I made a good 30 minute run and I really really shouldn't have.  My core body temperature was fine but my legs were red and raw looking and my left ear ( Read more... )

"Emergencies in Midwifery" ie, what to do while you're waiting for the ambulance in a snow storm ( Read more... )

I totally want to write this big huge diatribe about what I liked, loved, and hated about the Reboot Trek, but there's too much coffee in my system to do more than PIKE!FIST-FIGHTS!EYEBROWS!ILOVEMCCOYLIKEALOVINGTHING!

*twirls* French presses are fun ( Read more... )

Have finally seen Star Trek and surprised myself with how much I loved it ( Read more... )

I have just finished - and supremely enjoyed - A Madness of Angels (or: the resurrection of Matthew Swift) by Kate Griffin.

It was an extremely enjoyable story.

On her site she lists Roger Z. as a favourite writer, and I can see the influence.

I won't spoil much here - but I have to say that its been a while since a fantasy book put so much ( Read more... )

So I was jogging around the military base yesterday when I finally got why Sheppard would want to join the Air Force ( Read more... )

The boys just left ( Read more... )

Vodka is a terrible thing ( Read more... )

... you'd think I was living in Vancouver ( Read more... )

Well you know what they say: When the going gets tough, the tough go East ( Read more... )