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And gratefully, I have a bit of time to do it in.

For once, I've actually managed to read my friends' page, thanks to bluecanarykit leaving hers up and my dear one not getting off work until about 8-8:30 tonight. In so doing, I managed to leave a few snark-filled comments on scans_daily, see some fun cats on bentolunch, and read stuff what made me think on a couple of journals, ( Read more... )

So I imported ye olde blog into ye new WordPress doohickey, and presto! I had a massive amount of pointless posts all there, taking up space just like they do elsewhere on da internets ( Read more... )

Kurt Vonnegut died yesterday at the age of 84. Most know him for his longer works like Slaughterhouse Five, but I was introduced to him in English class with Harrison Bergeron. If you haven't read HB, I suggest you do. It's a pretty good illustration of the patriarchy, for one thing, whether or not Mr. Vonnegut intended that.

Requiescat in pace ( Read more... )

For anyone, and I mean ANYONE, who wants to learn to draw in a Manga, I've heard that Manga Secrets (art-ed by Lea Hernandez) is pretty good.

And Lea's thinking about writing a book, and self-publishing it, that would essentially be a follow-up to Manga Secrets.

In her words:
I want to do another book on drawing costuming. This is stuff lacking ( Read more... )

But ... a Hello Kitty airline?

Apparently it's true.  If you thought Disney could douse people in pink, I think they just met their match.

Although the bento lunches were 1) very much in the bento aesthetic and 2) looked a whole lot better than American airplane food.

* Okay, maybe more than the next person.  At this point, the person next to me is my ( Read more... )

Two things:

1) My exams are coming up (less than two weeks now) and I'm stressing out.  So, since I'm stressed, I feel like looking at the pretty hydrangea close-up, instead of trying to find an icon that expresses stressed-out-edness.

2)  I have really done something to my hand.  The knuckles of my left hand (thankfully not my writing hand) are sore ( Read more... )

I just read 1) the comment that onebrownwoman wrote in a post a while back and 2) the post I just made (well, a few days ago), and something struck me as odd.

In "re-purposing" my blogs, it seems to me that I'm limiting myself somehow.  Part of me neither needs nor particularly wants to have blogs for different purposes (here, the Blogger account ( Read more... )

That's right, I'm re-purposing again.  This is now Ye Official Personal Blog, and the ol' Blogger account is going to be my Sounding Board for Serious Stuff.

Oh, and ever have a day like this? Yeah, me too.

Sometimes I'm struck by a real streak of laziness -- from being tired or stressed, sure, but it's still there -- and some days I get an unexpected burst of energy, drive and focus that I make good use of ( Read more... )