First I was going to write about NEFFA, then it was our new living situation (with Ben's sister, Ben's other sister and her partner and soon to be their new baby) or the nice place we found to rent in Ithaca, or back up and even write about the fact that we're moving to Ithaca. Then I was going to write about the strange people that come into the ( Read more... )

I was woken up this morning by a loud and persistent knocking on my door. I rolled over, figuring it was the landlady wanting the rent and that she could probably wait until after 8:30 for it. But she kept knocking, so I got up, put on a coat over my pajamas and went to answer the door. It was the landlady, but she had forgotten that rent was due ( Read more... )

I was in the town library, walking through the science fiction section and I noticed a familiar book. I wasn't really reading the titles, but this particular book jumped out at me just from the general look of the cover. It was a Star Trek book. Specifically it was Shadows on the Sun by Micheal Jan Friedman. A copy of this book had sat on my ( Read more... )

Some days, it feels like time isn't passing in an even, logical fashion. Everything moves really slowly and no one comes into the store and I'm not entirely sure how long I spent moving things around to get that one extra inch in the fiction section on the shelf where I need it. But it's a slow day and I'm a perfectionist. And then all of a sudden ( Read more... )

Life: I'm living in South Amherst in an apartment with Ben. It's nice there. It's basically just one big room plus the bathroom, but it's warm, with lots of south-facing windows. And right now there is a crockpot full of mushroom sauce slow-cooking itself away there. I'm making money, which brings me to the second thing: Books. I sell them, I ( Read more... )

This entry is going to entirely about things I like, like TV shows or books or stuff. Because there's actually nothing happening in my own life (except my ongoing struggle with insomnia, about which maybe I will say more later - like 3 am. Would 3 am be good for you? Because apparently it's a great time for me!) But I feel that I need to ask some ( Read more... )

or...FUCK!

I'm really sorry about my disappearance. I never got around to the meme I was supposed to do for afrocurl and I haven't seen people I should have seen and I've been in places with slow as molasses internet and then ( Read more... )

I'm up "past my bed-time," which shouldn't matter. But the bed-time is self-imposed, so I'm letting myself down, I guess. I've been feeling like my head is somehow clogged. Not physically in the manner of a head cold, but figuratively, in the manner of writers block. Call it "life block" because I'm not actually having that much trouble writing. ( Read more... )

For a few weeks now I've been making phone calls for MoveOn.org, calling progressive voters across the country who vote infrequently and basically encouraging them to vote on Tuesday. There are ups and downs to it. Some people hate being called, of course. And I can relate to it and feel weird about doing it. But it's also known to be effective... ( Read more... )

I took the GRE. It was fine. Annoyingly long, but enh. I do, however, have serious doubts as to the validity of any test that rates my math skills more highly than my verbal skills. At least they weren't far apart, since I'm applying to a program that straddles the abyss between comp sci and comp lit... I have decided to study (if I can, this is) ( Read more... )