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Oy, the problems!
Last night one of my cats was playing kitten-on-the-key with my machine and got it locked up. I rebooted, and it comes up, but I can't switch between desktops and can't run any applications. Unfortunately, my spouse (the ( Read more... ) -
I'll see your Jung and raise you a Yalom
I decided that it might help my fiction--commercial and fan--if I rounded out the characters a bit. I'm sort of (semi, kind of) active in the HP fic world, and although Rowling has given us sketches of her paper people's personalities, I've noticed that fan writers go a lot further than she ever did in trying to give the characters depth and ( Read more... ) -
Election Year
It was a surprise when John McCain picked his running mate, and I have heard a lot of women gush, "She's just like me!" If you feel that way, ask yourself whether you feel competent to run the United States, with all of its current budget problems, its wars on two fronts, rampant unemployment, and a hundred more woes that I won't go into. Do you ( Read more... ) -
Writer's Block: Google Me
It makes me fee like I actually exist. There is a short story--by Bradbury, I think--called "The Vanishing American." It's about a guy who feels like he's starting to sort of fade out of existance and he climbs up on one of the lions in front of the library so that people will notice him and see that he's really alive. Seeing my listings on ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
About three years ago some of my neighbors decided to start a book club and they invited me to join it. Although book clubs are notorious as places where suburban women get together to swill wine and thumb through the current best seller (or whatever some TV superstar is pushing this week) ours is both small and sober. We drink tea like proper ( Read more... )