Okay. Finished Twilight. Well. I finished skimming it, because it became clear about a chapter in that this wasn't a book I really wanted to absorb in any particular depth.

When I heard about the series I thought, you know, give it a chance. Plenty of people hate Stephen King because he's too mainstream, and he's one of my favorite writers. I ( Read more... )

Stephenie Meyer is not the next J.K. Rowling. Okay? Can we stop calling her that?

Suddenly the great beast beat its hideous wings, and the wind of them was foul. Again it leaped into the air, then swiftly fell down upon Eowyn, shrieking, striking with beak and claw.

Still she did not blanch: maiden of the Rohirrim, child of kings, slender but as a steel-blade, fair yet terrible. A swift stroke she dealt, skilled and deadly. The ( Read more... )

Well, some idiot kid backed an SUV into my car and drove off. We were in the mall parking lot waiting to pull out and I was behind her. For some reason, she pulled halfway out into the intersection before realizing that there was traffic coming and decided to put it in reverse and floor it without looking behind her ( Read more... )

Wow. Just...wow.

( Some highlights. )

I have today off. Actually, I have today and tomorrow off, which is unbelievably exciting. I should be doing the following things: cleaning the apartment, changing my oil, going for a jog, finishing my grad school applications, studying for my GRE, hunting down references ( Read more... )

Yoinked fromresonant8 :

Take a picture of yourself right now. Don’t change your clothes. Don’t fix your hair. Just take a picture. Post that picture with no editing. (Except maybe to get the image size down to something reasonable. Don’t go posting an eight megapixel image.) Include these instructions.

( Me! Looking scrubby! )

We have two cats, one of which was inherited from a friend of a friend and one of which was rescued from a garbage alley by Rick. The former has been neutered, the latter has not. He started spraying during the summer, but we clean well and leave the windows open and it hasn't really been a problem. He can't get out and he's perfectly friendly, so ( Read more... )

Everyone does not have the right to be happy. People who think this are (in my experience, at least) almost always the sort of people who think they have the right to be happy at the expense of other people.

I guess, more accurately, I would say that everyone does not have the right to be made happy. No one can give you happiness; it's something ( Read more... )

I made apple pie! From scratch! And it's edible.

I'm going to try hard cider next. If I start now, it should be good and alcoholic by Halloween.