scionofgrace said "Tell us everything!" so, well, here it is. Everything.

( 1. Travel )

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( Now cut for everyone's convenience; now includes childhood story in the comments! )

Yesternoon, according to my wont, I visited an open market where used and rare goods might exchange hands from unwilling owners to eager ones. Upon strolling past one such booth I spotted a figurine, no taller than my thumb, which made such a striking impression that I must immediately stop for a closer look ( Read more... )

Annual year-end newsletter from the Stubbe Center, PhiladelphiaHappy New Year, werewolves ( Read more... )

Someone tell me a funny story; I need to de-angst for an hour or two until work lets out and I can break down properly.

ETA: Okay, my funny story. I'm taking notes on a job and the radiant tube is a 7" inside diameter by 200" effective length, a U-shaped tube. I just now noticed how I wrote that down:

7" ID x 200" eff U

AREA MOTHER TAKES NOSE-DIVE ONTO CONCRETE,
SPENDS EASTER IN E.R.

( Details at 11. )

Here was my evening.

11:15 p.m. Leave Runescape for bed.

11:16 Realize that 2004 NaNo novel is still open in MS Word. Begin work on chapter four.

12:00 Decide to poke around in 2005 NaNo novel, just for kicks.

12:45 Force self to bed.

1:00 Get up for antacid.

1:15 Get up, get The Journals of Eleanor Druse, read ( Read more... )

I brought in apples to work this week, for samples, so that I can take orders and deliver them on Monday. This year I used a paper punch and a sheet of March of Dimes address labels to make little round tags for each apple to identify the variety. Last year I didn't, and it was all, "I tried this one...it was sort of red...and a little bit sweet, ( Read more... )

Back from Florida! And four days behind on my flist, so...I'll catch up today.

( In short. )

I snapped off a letter to Joel Stein earlier in response to his unusually-misinformed article regarding the Potter phenomenon. And he wrote back! And liked it!

( My letter. )