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I've been trying to be a good financial girl the last few months, because I really needed to get my shit together about saving for buying my own home and then, you know, paying a mortgage for the next thirty thousand years. In aid of this mighty quest, I've ended up switching to some budgeting software called You Need A Budget (YNAB). If budgeting ( Read more... )

So. I had an awesome trip the US with
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I love this font, and it comes with an interesting article for both typography geeks and connoisseurs of transformative works:

This is the story of the creation of a new font, Avería: the average of all the fonts on my computer.

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I am on holidays on the NSW north coast with many other lovely fangirls. I've also very cleverly gotten horribly sick for three days and then, after finally getting over that, breaking my toe this morning. So I'm sitting on the couch with my foot elevated and iced, and trying to get some long overdue LJ posts written ( Read more... )

I mentioned a while back that starting to do meditation was the most unexpected thing that happened for me last year. I've been meaning to do a post about it, but took longer than I thought, because I found it quite difficult to put this stuff into words. Finally I've got something down, though, so here goes.

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A few drive-by notes while I try to find time to post something substantial:

1. OMG OMG White Collar was awesome yay!

2. It probably won't have escaped your noticed that the Candadian Shack thing is on again. I haven't written a new one, but I did put up my old ones on the archive: http://archiveofourown.org/users/julad (The remainder of my ( Read more... )

At the last minute, in a strange fit of "why the hell not," I offered to write Malcolm in the Middle for Yuletide.  Then I had a heart attack when I actually matched on it, because OMG, seven seasons, a dozen primary characters, and more vicious, hilarious social commentary than you can poke a sharp, possibly flaming, stick at.  But then in the end ( Read more... )

OMG, hello The Internet! It is so nice to see you after four days apart. It's felt like quite a lot longer ( Read more... )

Having taken three days to make up my mind and submitting at the last possible second, I'm now running off to work! I will come back and edit tonight with details!

( ETA: Here we go with Suits, Bring It On and Shelter... )