1. I've been watching a lot of River Monsters lately because it's very soothing, and it always delights me how much the host loves fish. HE JUST LOVES FISH SO MUCH, GUYS! EVEN THE VICIOUS MAN-EATING ONES!

2. Last night's Dancing with the Stars was really good, and I've been watching James, Sharna, and Jenna's trio jive and Laurie, Val, and Maks ( Read more... )

1. My mother got back from Japan today, so now I'm no longer alone in the house and just taking care of myself. And now things have to be back on a certain kind of schedule again, instead of just whenever I feel ( Read more... )

I want to say one more thing, I think. Moving onto anger from sadness, hey, a different step in the grieving process!

I’m not ashamed of being an American. I love this country, warts and all. Has America done some shitty, shitty things in its time? Hell yeah. One happened yesterday. Were some of the people involved in the founding of America ( Read more... )

What I'm currently reading:

I picked up The Ninth Daughter by Barbara Hamilton (a.k.a. Barbara Hambly) yesterday to reread, in a fit of glee because somehow "first woman president" translates to "Abigail Adams solves crime," and now I am too devastated to read it, though give me a day or two to recover and I'll get back to it. In the mean time ( Read more... )

That's what I've been repeating to myself all day. I don't know what book I got it from anymore -- I know I got it from a book -- but it's what I always come back to when I'm reacting to something. Do the next thingI've been crying on and off all day -- I was mostly numb last night. I live on the West Coast, so I was doing the time zone ( Read more... )

Gonna try to do reading Wednesday at least through November, a month when I am trying to be better at doing things on a regular basis.

What I'm currently reading

Rereads of Stories of the Raksura: Volume Two: The Dead City & The Dark Earth Below and The Wizard Hunters, both by Martha Wells -- I'm on another reread kick (which I've been on this ( Read more... )

I…I didn’t think you could write a retelling of the Thousand and One Nights and actively remove the storytelling aspect as being an important part of the story, but apparently you can and it really bothers me, because even though this isn’t my favorite fairy tale that part - the power of stories, the power of being a woman who tells stories, the ( Read more... )

1. I literally had an election-related stress dream last night -- I was trying to vote, but there was a test I had to take that I hadn't known about before, and I was driving around town trying to figure out where this test was being held so that I could vote, and if I couldn't vote then I alone would be solely responsible for the, you know, ( Read more... )

1. This week has been...weird. I had a backlog of school-related e-mails to send (I always have a backlog of school-related e-mails to send, because I hate sending e-mails), which sent me into an actual panic attack (of the mild hyperventilating variety) on Tuesday (I meant to get them out Monday but A Thing on Tumblr sent me into a panicked ( Read more... )

1. I'm having another fit of agony over grad school apps, which is exhausting because there's not really anything I can do except write them and cross my fingers ( Read more... )