It's a couple days from my birthday and E. seems to feel I need to link some things I like so that I can get free stuff. I've never paid much attention to my birthday, but the timing is really nice. Watchmen out Friday, so to celebrate my birthday, I'm making everybody I know come and watch it with me. And nobody had better shush me. I don't ( Read more... )

It's not spam if it''s one link every two to three weeks, right?

Anyways, knowing my job, isn't this hilarious? Actually, it's still hilarious, but my job makes it even funnier.


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As with all memes, ganked from a friend who ganked from a friend, etc, etc, etc, and so on and so forth. Go to Google and type your first name then type "needs"...then list the first 10 things about you from the various websites and descriptions used. Then share ( Read more... )

Want to know what's even better than lolcats? Adding dirigibles.

Reread Get Off the Unicorn earlier this week- it's amazing how many of those stories got their own books later on in her career. Some of them I wish she hadn't and had opted for one of the others instead. (The Freedom's Landing books just don't have the same re-readability as some of her others.) And in said book was the part of The Ship Who Sang ( Read more... )

I bowl Mondays. It's a fun league- nine pin, no tap, which means if you hit nine pins on your first throw, it's a strike. $10 a week for ten weeks, and you get to play round-robin with a bunch of friendly strangers. Before two weeks ago, I'd bowled maybe three times in my adult life. So yeah, my average is not something to brag about. It hasn' ( Read more... )

So talking cell phones with Dad right now. Apparently Margret broke hers and had to have to replaced? That's a new phone, you ditz, how did you break it already ( Read more... )

( Short randomness on the Cecilia and Kate epistolary books )

I'm not sure who beyond Katie is a Doctor Who fan. (I know Lee's parents are huge Tom Baker fans when it comes to DW), but Nodwick just linked me an announcement that leaves me rather, well, befuddled.

BBC is probably a more direct source than the fan discussions Nodwick linkedI know absolutely nothing of Matt Smith, so I can't say I'm judging his ( Read more... )

As it's the beginning of a new year, I thought I'd try to start something new- keeping track of what I read. Considering my voraciousness, it should be interesting to see how well I keep up with myself.

So I just finished off my recent Jaspar Fforde acquisition, Thursday Next: First Among Sequels.
( Random discussion of said book here. )