Today I discovered what lurks in
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So Wednesday night
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So, uh, I'm in Chicago until Monday morning-ish, and I am open to meetup ideas! Hi! :D

(There was an earlier entry on this topic, but due to mobile + woe, it didn't successfully cross-post.)

( Long! TSA was uneventful. )

People who are freely allowed to call me "sweetheart": friends (+) to whom this mode of address comes naturally ( Read more... )

If you come across this on Google later, I'm assuming you have a 2005 Dodge Neon sedan (or similar) and you are trying to remove the battery, perhaps to replace it. This was my experience, but if you don't know what you're doing, please get professional help if you can, and if you think anything is unsafe, don't do it. General electricity safety ( Read more... )

Years participating in NaNoWriMo: 2003-present
Years won NaNoWriMo: 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011
Deadline: 11:59:59 2011-11-30, 50,000 words
Actual: 11:51~, 50,002 words (hyphenated words counting as one, BOOYA!)
Scrivener word count: counts hyphenated words as separate
NaNo word count: counts hyphenated words as one
Plot: first draft complete, in major ( Read more... )

I expect that this one will be all over my reading list by morning, and I hit a really depressing bit of the book before crashing out last night and then waking up OMG STARVING at 1:30 in the morning ( Read more... )

I'm home. O goodness what a day.

First, the good:


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(This is apropos of seeing something similar happen not-to-me and remembering that it makes my skin itch ( Read more... )