Last summer, Lexan became obsessed with boats, to the point where on our Cape Cod vacation, he would try to get on to boats and would get really mad when I wouldn't open gates so he could go on them. I bought him a book called Boats Go, which caused him to lead his preschool class in singing "O Sole Mio". Eventually, in one of my greatest parenting ( Read more... )

It's been over 3 months and I still don't know what to say when someone asks what's up with me. It always feels so melodramatic to tell people my father died, but it is the biggest thing that happened to me this year ( Read more... )

1) The Republic of Pirates, Colin Woodard
2) Binti, Nnedi Okorafor (electronic)
3) Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, Salman Rushdie (electronic)
4) Rivers of London, vol 2: Night Witch, Ben Aaronovitch, Andrew Cartmel, Lee Sullivan, Luis Guerrero, Rob Steen
5) Two Awesome Hours, Josh Davis (electronic)
6) A Concise History of the ( Read more... )

Yes, I know this post is going up many months late, and yes, a lot has happened since then such that I can barely remember, but I want to record my new year's resolutions and you may be interested in what I've been up to ( Read more... )

1) The Republic of Pirates, Colin Woodard
2) Binti, Nnedi Okorafor (electronic)
3) Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, Salman Rushdie (electronic)
4) Rivers of London, vol 2: Night Witch, Ben Aaronovitch, Andrew Cartmel, Lee Sullivan, Luis Guerrero, Rob Steen
5) Two Awesome Hours, Josh Davis (electronic)
6) A Concise History of the ( Read more... )

1) Word Puppets, Mary Robinette Kowal (electronic)
2) Power Cues, Nick Morgan (electronic)
3) The Death of Ivan Ilych, Leo Tolstoy (electronic)
4) Graveyard Dust, Barbara Hambly (electronic)
5) Night Watch, Sergei Lukyanenko (electronic)
6) The Substance of Civilization, Stephen L. Sass (electronic)
7) The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz ( ( Read more... )

I logged in to update my book list - 5 non-fiction in a row! some very high quality too! - and peeked at my friends list and was reminded what I've been missing. YOU! You're so interesting, but I'm supposed to be working before my 2pm call ( Read more... )

Poll Been a while, eh? They changed the interface and I had to look up what I call these things, although I remembered the poll creation URL by heart *facepalm ( Read more... )

Apparently I'm repeating a post from 2 months agoSore throat, again. I believe it's just bc I'm phlegmy from summer allergies, which I didn't even know existed until I had them. bah. I think I'm giving up on running a half marathon this year if I can't stay well enough to train up to a 6mi run. It's so funny to me that I could bang out an untrained ( Read more... )

I forgive myself for being human and finite and

• having a sore throat for 3 weeks (and consequently being unable to exercise, which helps me eat right);
• PMSing;
• being stressed when 2 interviews on separate days were added to my calendar;
• being stressed when the nanny just announced that she would not be available when I go back to work;
• having a ( Read more... )