You know it's been a bad week when you keep vaguely hoping that you'll come down with the flu, to retroactively justify all the work you haven't been doing. Were I to list my major accomplishments this week, they would include:

1. Doing some laundry.

2. Watching the first 11 episodes of Hawaii 5-0.

3. Reading enough Hawaii 5-0 fic that I lost ( Read more... )

I am watching the first episode of Hawaii-5-0, not being intellectually equal to anything more demanding.

Guys, this show is so bad.

That is all, you may now return to your regularly scheduled programming.

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There has been a recent flurry of articles discussing evidence that Jane Austen's style was actually due to an editor, and people, I am confused by the discussion.

There's been some interesting discussion of this topic on Language Log, but I still feel it misses the point, which is this: surely many writers get enormous feedback from their ( Read more... )

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*does dance of being on track*

In other news, a week of sleeping very badly has me once again attempting to drastically reduce my caffeine intake. So far so good, I'm drinking tea instead of coffee and vaguely planning to switch to decaf in a few more days.

The trouble is that experience tells me that as soon as free ( Read more... )

Something I thought some people on my flist might be interested in:

Marvel-themed skins for your iPhone.

(Or your iPod, or your Kindle, or your computer, or your non-Mac phone...)

Also represented are Dark Horse, Hellboy, and Tim Burton, among others.

Who, me? Browsing iPad paraphenalia even though I don't own one? Surely not.

Also, ( Read more... )

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( There really is something to this writing-as-a-habit thing. )

The list of things I Really Must Do Very Soon is growing daily, especially what with tartary_lamb coming to visit soon (so exciting!).

Despite this, I only managed the following today, due in part to the 7 hours I spent in class:

(1) Knit a bit less than 1/3 of a scarf I'm hoping to give my brother for Christmas. (7 hours in class are good for something ( Read more... )

Once, talking to a councellor*, I was listing the kinds of books I like to read in my spare time (science fiction, fantasy, and romance), and she was like: "you realize those are all very escapist."

Yeah, no shit sherlock. I've known that since I was a pre-teen, though at the time maybe I didn't know the actual word 'escapist ( Read more... )

Sometimes I am abruptly reminded of just how bad my American geography is. Case in point: today I read Dreadnought by Cherie Priest. This book (which is part of an excellent alternate-history American-civil-war steampunk series, by the by) involves a cross-continental journey from Virginia to Washington state. And they'd keep mentioning things ( Read more... )

You should all go right now and watch this video on procrastination. What is so awesome is that it has perfectly captured the tone of definitional clips I remember seeing as a child. I don't even know where I saw them, maybe this was something Sesame Street did? Maybe the National Film Board?

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