--For the second evening in a row (at least), my brain's refusing to settle on anything terribly useful. I've whittled some tabs down, but so haphazardly that I don't even have the feeling of "at least I got something done". (Not sure how that works, when clearly I have, even if it was something of no particular significance. But hey, I'm down to ( Read more... )

In a stunning, if probably not literally unprecedented, display of common sense,
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It's shaping up to be an unusually warm week--it's 6°C right now, and the forecast highs are all above freezing until the weekend (10°C on Thursday! Although the odds of that not changing are slim). When we were out running errands this afternoon I didn't feel cold at all in a fleece hoodie and a raincoat--liberating to leave the winter coat at ( Read more... )

--So many end-of-year memes popping up all over! I like those memes, and will probably do a couple, but I'm not sure when. Since meeting my Monday deadline, a corner of my brain has felt convinced that my time pressure has lifted, only not so much, brain. (I have a full volume to rewrite by next Wednesday and a half volume to do by next Friday. And ( Read more... )

Technically I could still do my "December talking meme" posts this month, since there're only five or six topics, but I think at this point I'm just going to do what some other people have done and formally say I'll get those written in January. La!So first there was the "sleeping through last night's get-together" thing. Then I went to bed a ( Read more... )

It wasn't entirely my own lack of foresight that got me chilled right through on the way home from work. I knew the temperature was going to be consistently around freezing before I left for the office, but I didn't do much layering, and then wore my raincoat instead of something heavier. (I'm hoping I can swing replacing all of my coats soonish-- ( Read more... )

--I'm reluctant to complain about the heat, between the horrible winter we had and how gray/cool/drizzly so much of July was, but humidity is another story. The heat can stay, although dropping down a notch or two would be okay too. The humidity can GTFO. UGH. (I love summer, but arguably my least-favorite thing about it is how, unless there's ( Read more... )

So much for the warm weather--today we have a high of 8°C (46°F), and it's raining. Ugh. But later in the week we'll theoretically have sun again and be hitting 14-19°C, and
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--Status of the three pre-TCAF freelance deadlines: 1) the rewrite that's due tomorrow has been submitted; 2) the novel proofread for Sparkler is just about done (I still have to write up some overall notes and query a few word choices); and 3) the rewrite that's due Wednesday is getting a lot of work done on it tomorrow, because so far I've only ( Read more... )

I didn't leave the house today, and we had some rain and above-freezing temperatures, but as of when I was out yesterday, the picture in this tweet from the Nova Scotia CBC account accurately represented the current strata in our snowbanks. *shudders ( Read more... )