I'm now having second thoughts about saddling my daughter with a hyphenated last name, the rather unwieldy "Comisky-West". And, if I'm honest with myself, I knew it all along -- I was just being insecure. "Brigid Comisky" is much more, umm, wieldy, but I was so afraid that if we didn't share (at least partially) the same last name, then I'd be ( Read more... )

I'm having a really hard time coming up with names I like. Most of the Goddess-names that mean a lot to me are not exactly the sorts of names you can give to an actual person. For example, as fine as those names are, I'm not going to name my daughter Hecate, Minerva, or Arianrhod. For a while I was actually halfway considering Ceridwen (call her ( Read more... )

The first one really freaked me out. For one thing, I had no idea I wasn't really speaking to Dot. It wasn't until later when Dot showed up and disavowed any knowledge of the conversation that I finally worked out that I had actually been speaking with the First. Dot was, of course, clinically dead briefly in 1998 (which, I now know, is what caused ( Read more... )

Another Friday night, another security breach at our (supposedly secure) HQ. Yeah, it sort of bugs me that anyone and everyone (from DotCom start-ups to Denizens of the Formless Void) seems to be able to waltz past the best security I can muster without breaking a sweat, but the really sobering part is that the aforementioned DFV was completely ( Read more... )

I've been doing a lot of research and, though there's no definitive proof (i.e. absence of evidence is not evidence of absence), it's starting to look more and more like our daughter will be the first/only female child even born to a Slayer. Will she be the Kwisatz Haderach? You know, there was a time, back when I was focused on the technical and ( Read more... )

I can't really talk about it right now, but let's just say that the last time something even remotely similar to this happened, it ended up starting a major religion. Granted, times were different then, and M was obliged to come up with a pretty far-fetched cover story. But still.

Last night was weird ( Read more... )

I'm kind of bummed that Dot's not going to be around for Samhain. I understand about her family emergency and all, but I wish she would have let me go with her. Why won't she let me get close? And I thought for sure she'd want to move in with me now that she no longer has to live at the office to keep it vampire-free, but she seems undecided about ( Read more... )

Turns out my spell really did work! I got a chance to test the amulet (or, as people insist on calling it, "Camille's Collar") with Kat last night, and it worked just as I had hoped! Not only can she choose not to change during a full moon, but she can also change any time she feels like it. And what's more, she's now in complete control of her ( Read more... )

It worked ( Read more... )