I have not yet decided whether my LiveJournal will be deleted, or whether it will remain in its present state of defunct disuse. But any new content will be happening at Dreamwidth ( Read more... )

Spring speaks again, and all our woods are stirred ( Read more... )

Happy Poetry Month! Here, have some nonsense.

The Jumblies
by Edward Lear

( They went to sea in a Sieve, they did )

There are very few hours left in this year and I feel that I ought to say something about it. A lot happened! I did many things ( Read more... )

Much has been happening and, as is the way of it, I have not posted about it. However! Here are several exciting things ( Read more... )

Today was a beautiful day, of the kind that remind me why I moved here. Wrote a bit, got a smoothie and drank it in the park with Cavafy’s selected poems, took a nap with Copernicus, wrote some more. Slow progress is being made, much of it on the wrong side of the line between context and wild speculation.

I got an ARC of The Bane Chronicles ( ( Read more... )

April has slipped away too fast. Work has been busy, and I've been busy outside of it. My adventuring has been curbed somewhat by extremely persistent plantar fasciitis in one foot, which I finally contacted a recommended doctor about, only to be told that they don't do feet. Sigh ( Read more... )

Hello my darlings, I did not mean to be so long away. I have been having ADVENTURES and also being busy. Which is better than being not-busy. I have read several terrible books and a few good books and binge-watched a lot of television (a4yroldfaerie, when you told me of Young Americans the first time why did you not tell me that Bella was AWESOME ( Read more... )

Happy New Year ( Read more... )

I suppose it would be accurate to sum up 2013 as "the year I moved to Berkeley and had a lot of feelings." I also read a lot of books (no surprise) and watched a lot of American television and only three Asian dramas (yes surprise) and, to judge by my diary, had a lot of feelings about those. I took a semester of Korean (excruciating but also ( Read more... )