Pretty much every year in mid-July, I go off to dance camp in the woods. This means several days of dance classes, hanging out with a couple hundred lovely people, eating really well, trying not to get too mosquito-eaten, and having essentially no internet access because, you know, it's the middle of the woods. I will return next Saturday morning ( Read more... )

This meme was all over my reading page a couple of days ago, so sure, let's do this thing! Open for a couple of days at the least.

Let’s play Burn Read Rewrite.
It’s like Kill Fuck Marry, but with books.

You guys know the drill: give me three, and I will pick which is which category. Let me know if you want three in trade!

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I'm sneaking a few extra minutes into my lunch break to record this, because it was completely adorable and I'm thoroughly charmed. Walking back from lunchtime errands, I happened to see a driveway on which some child had scribbled copiously with lots of colors of chalk, and the word "Parking" preceded by something indecipherable caught my eye. I ( Read more... )

( Work, gardening, and language adventures (not terribly adventurous) )

1. Last weekend I went to NYC for a long weekend hanging out chez
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I posted this long piece of navel-gazing recently under friendslock. Enough people said it resonated with them that I thought I might as well post an open version too. (So if you read that post, there's absolutely nothing new in this one. I haven't changed a word of it except this intro paragraph.) If you want to quote anything or link to this ( Read more... )

My deepest apologies, author -- this is currently a placeholder. I'll edit in the content by this weekend!

This entry is also posted at http://genarti.dreamwidth.org/160940.html. You can comment on LJ or DW, whichever you like.
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So, who all's planning to be at Arisia next weekend?

I'll be there all weekend starting Friday evening, aside from a detour Saturday night to go see "The Heart of Robin Hood" at the ART. (Tremendous fun -- I've already seen it once, but with a different group. Those of you who know
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It’s been a snow day (yaaaay) after a vacation full of not much internetting, and I have the whole weekend ahead, and I’m not going much of anywhere for a bit, because there’s a windchill below 0F and I am comfy on the couch. (I think we got about a foot of snow? That’s what it looks like out the front door, where admittedly it’s all been plowed ( Read more... )

Happy 2014, everyone! I have had a lovely New Year -- hanging out with
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