If you like historical romance, you should try Sherry Thomas. She's a new author (I think her first book came out in 2008). I wasn't actually in love with Private Arrangements (her first book), but more because I found the flashbacks and initial animosity a bit painful to read than because of any criticism of the writing...I loved Delicious and my ( Read more... )

Sometimes I just get so tired of trying to make friends. It's exhausting. And it never seems like anyone else is trying.

Poor, poor me.

I am going to do some work on this paper I'm revising. Not strictly because I need to get it done ASAP (though that's true, too) but because I actually want to. This has not happened to me in a long time, and I am finding it strange. Good strange, though ( Read more... )

Wanted to write but now that I have the blank page in front of me, I can't think of a thing.

Food coma? A bit. Time to get back to work.

Baby is napping so I thought I'd update my journal rather than do anything productive. Why not? Of course, my forearms are bugging me from computer use, so a break would probably be better, but here I am, anyway ( Read more... )

After 2.5 years, I am finally transitioning away from my job with Hospice. This makes me sad, but it's the best timing possible, and it will be a good thing to move into a different kind of position. This week I've been training other folks to do my jobs, next week I'm wrapping things up and being available for questions, and that's it. Weird ( Read more... )

This was the second week where Wednesday was at least partially dedicated to cooking. I have come to the conclusion that cooking a full-on dinner every night is just not going to work for me, and so a better solution is to cook a bunch of stuff at once, and have most of the parts of lunches and dinners for a few days. So yesterday I made fish ( Read more... )

I was reading through some of my very first journal entries (from 2004), and it seemed to me that they were a lot more entertaining to read than what I write now. Though I did, to my shame, actually write that something was "pimp." I hope I was being silly and not attempting to sound cool. Knowing me, it was probably the former, thank goodness ( Read more... )

I was going through some e-mail and whatnot and so I thought "hey, rather than go to bed and feel better tomorrow, why don't I write something in my journal? Great idea!" I don't even have much of anything to say - but here goes, anyway ( Read more... )

I am definitely busy now that baby girl is here, but strangely I don't really feel more busy than I did before, and I don't feel like I'm accomplishing less, which is somewhat perplexing. It makes me wonder why in the world I felt lacking in time before. It seems to me that I would have SO much time to get things done if I didn't have a baby, but ( Read more... )