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2016, Long and Strange
This has been such a strange year, on many levels. Trying to think through it almost boggles the mind, but for the sake of posterity and this long-neglected blog, I'm going to check my Google Calendar and try.
January included the holiday trip from my Gramma (over Christmas, Star Wars, and New Years), which was a ton of fun. We visited Bainbridge, ( Read more... ) -
Have I made a terrible mistake?
This past month has been one of the most stressful of my life ( Read more... ) -
Two Cultures, Two Takeaways
If anyone reading this thinks that the shooting of 10 cartoonists and 2 police officers in Paris this week was anything other than senseless, awful, and horrifying, those people can leave now ( Read more... ) -
If I Won $500,000
This is the title of a spreadsheet I just wrote up. Everyone has, I'm sure, thought about their answer to this question, and I was listening to the radio on my way home when they were talking about contest prizes. One of the prizes was $500,000, and I got to thinking again about my answer ( Read more... ) -
Prejudiced
I realized during Freshman year of college that I grew up with a subconscious, bone-deep prejudice against half of the human race, based on their gender. Not the half that's usually the target of socialized bigotry (which would be women) but in my case, I am afraid of and prejudiced against: men ( Read more... ) -
State of the Bibliophile, Part n of whatever
I realized just now it's once again been forever since I've posted here, but I'm swinging back up into a "Let's interact with stuff and people on the interwebs!" mood, so here we are. It also helps that my boyfriend is off doing movie meetings with people tonight, so I have the apartment to myself ( Read more... ) -
The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland And Led The Revels There
About a year ago I heard about a book with an absolutely wonderful title and a bright red cover with a cool-looking dragon on it. It was written by Catherynne M. Valente (catvalente), who I had heard about vaguely through Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) and knew had written a book called Palimpsest and also (I was vaguely aware) wrote music.
The book, of course, was The ( Read more... ) -
State of the Bibliophile 2
In ten months or so since the last time I felt the need to do a complete recap of life, a lot has stayed the same or similar, but mostly everything has changed ( Read more... ) -
So Many Books, So Little Time
Well, my original reading chronicles have had to fall by the wayside since I moved to LA and don't have access to all the books I was reading in order to get them out of my house. Instead, I left six large plastic tubs full of books back in Bozeman, waiting for when I can get them down here with me. But since I didn't bring very many books to LA, ( Read more... ) -
I Don't Wear Make-up (But When I Do)
Today was a wonderful day. I woke up early for an appointment with a temp agency that will hopefully move me towards getting a job. When I got back it was sunny and wonderful, so I wanted to go swim in the pool. Instead, I'd heard about a Facebook event where BBC America was giving out free food at a bunch of food trucks in Santa Monica, so Timothy ( Read more... )