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Happy belated Easter, all! Hope it was tasty. Mine primarily involved the end (dear GODS I hope) of this past week's bout of the flu, but I did get to eat an excellent breakfast with equally excellent friends and spend the day goofing off in good company. Considering the past few days, that's a huge improvement, believe me.
Back to work -
Writer's Meme
Wow... I haven't posted here in dog's years; must amend that. You WOULD know it'd be a meme by copperbadge that'd get me to do so again. **amused** So here we go:
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1. Go to page 77 (or 7, or just hit pagedown 7 times) of your current ms.
2. Go to line 7
3. Copy down the next 7 lines - sentences or paragraphs - and post them as they’re written.
4. Tag ( Read more... ) -
Interesting...
Man, I've had the weirdest dreams lately.
The other night I was chasing a spider all over my apartment and my old house-- couldn't catch the damn thing (it didn't look a great deal like a real spider, either, more like one of the little soot-thingies from Spirited Away, only with more legs.) I was annoyed rather than really upset-- it just wouldn ( Read more... ) -
Japan trip OMG OMG OMG, The Sequel
SO! Stuff I needed to do that I've done:
* Sent off for my passport.
* Paid my final payment for the tour. Holy shit.
* Gotten maps of Osaka, Kyoto, Nara and Tokyo.
* Gotten an international adaptor plug thingie.
* Gotten a very nifty walking-stick (it collapses! Hopefully it'll keep ME from collapsing!)
* Arranged for two very, very wonderful friends ( Read more... ) -
Japan trip OMG OMG OMG...
SO. I've worked it out. Not counting today, I have 71 days until I leave. That's a touch over ten weeks, y'all, which is a really short time. Am I freaked out? Um, YES.
Things I have done to get ready:
1. Paid my downpayment on the tour
2. Bought flight insurance
3. Bought plane-tickets
4. Bought luggage (mine was very, very dead.)
5. Scheduled ( Read more... ) -
Menuuuuuuuuuuudooooooooo.....
Okay, so it's like this.
Some time ago, me and lil_1337 sent out a box to Kevin And Ursula Eat Cheap, which is a weekly podcast produced by two fantastic and creative people, naturally named Kevin and Ursula (imagine that.) Said box contained a miscellaneous assortment of southwestern foodstuffs, chosen for its amusement value, peculiarity, interesting ( Read more... ) -
Atkins diet? I HAZ QUESTIONS.
RIGHT. Question for y'all out there (and answer anonymously if you want, that's fine, or list your name with pride.)
Have any of y'all had experiences, good or bad, with the Atkins Diet? 'Cause I'm looking at it right now. I need to get in better shape, in better health; I'm tired of being heavier than I ought to be, and I'm not so overweight ( Read more... ) -
Midsummer, 2011.
In silver-blue the dew lies bright;
The Midsummer night is abrim with light.
Come take each other by the hand--
The music has wakened all over the land.
Go gladly up and gladly down,
The dancing flies outwards like laughter;
From blossom-field to mountain-crown
Rejoice in the joy that comes after.
I remember hearing this sung at Worldcon in 1986 (yeah, I'm ( Read more... ) -
Smoke and dust and the desert in June...
Wish y'all could see what it looked like here an hour or so ago. All the smoke from the fires down south and east of Tucson have been drawn in by the enormous gusts of wind we've been experiencing all day, and the dust from the desert has mixed with the fires. Tucson is a mountain valley, a very wide one; we can see mountains to three sides, ( Read more... )