• Suddenly lasagna sounds like a really fucking good idea.
  
• Still broke.
  
• I have 40 whole icons now, which is amazing, because it's almost exactly what I wanted. 15 is too few, but then again I don't want 100, so just a few weeks ago I was wishing I could have something in between, and then Friday people started talking about their new shiny " ( Read more... )

"They shirk. They are shirkers. They shirk! They shirk at selling and promoting their work, and if they put forth any effort at all it's close to zero. 'Incompetent, unmotivated people' is, uh, it's a better descriptor. They're -- and pardon my French, but they're idiots." -- Bruce Lansky.

So somehow I gave myself a papercut on the very top of my index finger yesterday, and then proceeded to clean with that hand, which meant it got slightly infected (my fingers in general, by the way = ow. if you work your fingers to the bone, what do you get? bony fingers!). Thus, I was putting on a Band-Aid™ this morning, and thinking about band- ( Read more... )

Oh, BookJobs.com, you are so tempting and yet so cruel. So far today I've gotten excited about jobs in Encino and Colorado Springs, but Boston has so many! And Connecticut! And Maryland! Much as I talk about how editing is the sort of thing you can really take anywhere, I think I'll probably be stuck on the west or east coast.
If by "stuck" you ( Read more... )

No, really. It's absolutely glorious. So very tasty ( Read more... )

In the spirit of Faith Sucking at Everything, I give you a top five list. Please join us and, like I said earlier, feel free to rant at yourself as much as you feel is necessary. I often find it makes me feel marginally better to just bitch at myself for a while.

( Top Five Things You Suck at Right Now )

The siren song of the Starbucks was strong this morning, but I resisted. Just thought you might want to know about my amazing willpower.

omg it's wednesday.

1. "Kissing" is a really funny-looking word. If you don't believe me, go look at it in print (here, for example -- this is what I do all day now, folks, is maintain and add content to this website). See? Funny-looking.
   
2. Gucci hid under my bed this morning when I tried to put her back in her kennel. She is so bad. I took her out before I went to ( Read more... )

And did I mention the two-gallon bottle of Bailey's in the company refrigerator? No? Oh ( Read more... )

The Assistant Marketing Director and I bonded over Omaha earlier this week, because she went to school at UNO, and today the Marketing Director and I bonded over Southern California, because her family is from Laguna Beach and Oceanside. And the office is having cheesecake for my birthday on Monday, and everyone just falls over backwards to make ( Read more... )