i r ded from grading. not even strong enuf to add extra a's to grading. woe.

All day I've been reading posts on friends and friends/friends, about fantastic Thanksgiving meals. Turkey and pie and casseroles and nibblies and all kinds of yummy sounding food. Y'all are making me hungry ( Read more... )

Sigh. Minding my own business, watching House last night, when Christmas invaded my (temporary) home. Canadian Tire commercial, cute dog, Christmas tree, gaily wrapped gifts, the whole mess ( Read more... )

So I'm graaaaaading (tm Salieri) and half-watching the 24 hour Hallowe'en special on Space: The Imagination Station ( Read more... )

Hey, everybody's doing it ( Read more... )

I don't think I've had more than a few minutes at a time to breathe in the last few months. Always something to review, prepare, revise, research, etc. And I got a whole two weeks at home between the trip to Britain and this place I will call home until mid-December. Loads going on, but little time to reflect on things, and I'm a bad poster at the ( Read more... )

I've successfully resisted getting a cellphone so far. Heck, I don't even like answering the real phone (email is so much better for communicating, really). And so many cellphone users seem to lose manners and/or brain cells, always forgetting to turn the darned things off even when flight attendants beg them to so the plane won't crash or ( Read more... )

Unlike many of you who seem to play (or have played) in many fandoms, I'm really focused on Stargate, both SG-1 and Atlantis. That's not to say I don't avidly watch a lot of other shows, like Buffy, X-Files, various incarnations of Star Trek, Star Wars, etc., and I'll always have a fondness for my first, Space: 1999. But Stargate is really the only ( Read more... )

It's the end of April. Spring, technically, although it hasn't really felt very spring-y what the trees barely budding. But still, according to the calendar...

And we've had some lovely mild weather, enough for me to be wearing sandals and short skirts again, yay!

But this morning....snow.

Yup, the white stuff is back.

So, everyone else seems to be doing this, and it sounded like fun. Plus, I am avoiding editing work and writing a book review. Seems a shame to waste the lovely massage I had this afternoon by getting all stressed out about work stuff ( Read more... )