[I swear I wrote this last night, but my internet connection was hiding when I tried to post it, so I just went to bed. Belatedly:]For the record, I am not at all impressed by how much I've been whining to you this past week, but it does appeal to my sense of perversity that the week I start blogging every day would coincide with one of my toughest ( Read more... )

The New York public schools were off this week, so my parents and I took advantage of my dad's vacation, went out for dinner and a show, and met with smashing success on both fronts. We hit up Mamoun's for dinner because it was a lovely day and we wanted something we could take to the park, but we had enough time afterwards that I convinced them ( Read more... )

I went home today after working late, which makes three days in a row that I've not had anything scheduled after work, my longest stretch of unplanned weekdays in recent memory. This has reminded me why I tend to schedule myself so compulsively: because I'm terrible at leaving places if I don't have anywhere else I need to be. The combination of ( Read more... )

Another late day at the office today, largely catching up on the work I wasn't doing during the five hours of meetings we had about community features for the new site. This is actually fascinating stuff, so I don't mind discussing it ad infinitum, but the work I missed during those meetings never exactly goes away. Consequently, my evening was ( Read more... )

[It has not escaped my attention that in just a few short weeks I will be expected to fulfill some sort of regular blogging commitment over at tor.com. Last I checked, um, eighty-seven weeks ago, I was an atrocious blogger. I talked about this with Brian Slattery over brunch before his panel at New York Comic Con, and our consensus was that we were ( Read more... )

Oh dear. I’m doing that thing again where I got so busy planning an event that I failed to leave time to actually tell people about it. Luckily, word has gotten around enough that most of you probably already know about it... but you still gotta post about it on LJ, right? Right.

For those of you who aren’t up to speed: last year I edited Jeff ( Read more... )

Another drive-by, for another audience request. Some of you know that I'm going to ReaderCon this coming weekend, which I'm enormously psyched about. What I'm not is particularly ready. Like, I've got a membership (two, actually—damn you, PayPal); and I've got a room; and I know that rambleman is flying into NYC on Thursday afternoon and we’ll be making our ( Read more... )

Hiya, LiveJournal.

No, wait, don’t get too excited. This isn’t a real entry either. I’m once again doing that boorish thing where I skip in, mutter to you about some event you should attend, and waltz right out again; without bothering to properly acknowledge a single one of you.

But this one’s worth it. I promise.

I’m here to urge anyone with the ( Read more... )

Don't got plans for Tuesday night? Now you do. Presenting the Third Annual Anti-VD Cookie Swap at the House of Six Giraffes.

Also: new Anti-VD cards. Chill the cockles of your heart right up, they will.

(I know, I know. Real content coming soon.)

LiveJournal, baby, I've gotta come clean. The rumors are true: I've been cheating on you with VanderWorld. But, hon, I can explain. Y'see, Jeff offered me a the chance of a lifetime, the chance to have my way with allll of his readers at once. You know I couldn't pass that up. So I gave him my "Best Music of 2005" list. I just thought it would be ( Read more... )