You show up in person, because the other option is to make an appointment with a phone call, and you know if it's down to that you'll never, ever go.  You tell yourself you have to walk over, and so you do, but all the things it means are so hard to handle that you're a little wobbly by the time you even show up.  You don't know the room number, ( Read more... )

I have twenty-two years of "shut up, Claire" under my belt.

Twenty-two years of, "Sure, we've patronized you for three sentences, but nobody actually wants to hear anything about the strange and obscure things that are actually important to you.  Shut up, be polite, and listen to somebody else's socially appropriate conversation".  Seared across the ( Read more... )

Hmm. Did some googling on my own; trying Semagic, I'd heard its name mentioned once or twice. Seems to be working so far. Plus, it auto-inserts html when you 'ctrl-i' for italics, etc. Which I have to say, after however long writing out the whole etc. every time? Nifty.

( Part 8: Modern political interrelations part two, or, insert funny subtitle here )

( Part 7: Non-human sentience, or, meanwhile, back to those dragons... )

Mmm. Chocolate good. New bakery around the corner from the Paris Center? Better.

( Part 6: Modern political interrelations, or, why are these people trying to kill us again? )

And so it goes...

Just as a note? Lentils are tasty.

( Part 5: Modern political states, or, invadersfromtheeastsay*what*? )

Had a good day today. Went to the Louvre. Got through the exhibit on the history of the Louvre which was by turns fascinating and disappointing, when compared with the past two days; it kept making references to things that just tied them all together *click* in my brain, but in terms of the actual historical fortifications, it seemed vaguely ( Read more... )

( Part 3: The Hawkfire line continued, or, the din might not be nasty, but something sure is. )

Part the second in our NaNoWriMo prep series. It occured to me that geography makes very little sense w/out the accompanying maps, and as I'm currently scannerless, this puts the 'terrain' entry at a bit of a delay. At some point. Probably ( Read more... )

This is going to be part 1 in a series of NaNoWriMo prep posts, intended to help me get my thoughts straight and wrapped around the crazy worldbuilding shit going on in in the project to come. See, I know these characters to a degree that's probably a little bit scary; they've been living in the back of my head for, hmm, since sixth or seventh ( Read more... )