A moment of white space for the California Supreme Court's decision:

Seriously, guys.

My family subscribes to the LA Times, and while I was glad that they covered the topic extensively, including front-page articles and a full spread later on, the first sentence of this article which glibly assumed the court's decision that marriage is ( Read more... )

I've got a lot of disjointed thoughts that I'm trying to manage in the hour before tutoring starts and I start earning money. In some kind of organization, then.

I heard back from the study abroad office, and I'm 99% guaranteed to be attending Queen Mary University of London. I'm incredibly looking forward to going abroad, and incredibly nervous, ( Read more... )

So, instead of eating my dinner or doing any one of the numerous homework assignments that are bound to crush me to a pulp between now and Thursday, I have been accosted by a short story. I am actually rather pleased by this -- I have been waiting for this particular story to make itself work for me ever since reading the Book of Job (yeah, the one ( Read more... )

I am again overcome by a great love of Diane Duane. I'm sure I've told you all a million times that you should read her books because they really will change your life, but I mean it. So much of who I am and who I want to be -- not just as a writer, but as a person -- is within the pages of her books, specifically the Young Wizards series that ( Read more... )

So my assignment for Monday's creative writing class is to bring in a single paragraph of published literature that I find true/real/loved. Here are the preliminary candidates (there are probably a lot of them, and the list will probably grow over time rather than shrink like I need it to).

from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, by J. K. ( Read more... )

I am a bum who does nothing on time and frequently does nothing with the time I'm given ( Read more... )

So I have found t-shirts that I want, and I have found them in a very odd manner. You see, I have this friend who reads this webcomic and today he linked me to it in a comment, and after reading the comic I decided to browse around the site. Which led me to merchandise, which led me to the shirts.

I want them.


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from So You Want to Be a Wizard by Diane Duane, first published 1983:

Then the rails bent away to the left in a long graceful curve, still climbing slightly; and little by litte, over the low brown cityscape of Brooklyn, the towers of Manhattan rose glittering in the early sunlight. Gray and crystal for the Empire State Building, silver-blue for ( Read more... )