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Spotted Meme
Confess the first two things you bought from Amazon.
Mine are:
Of Swords and Spells by Delia Marshall Turner, probably because I couldn't find it in a bookstore (I'd just finished Nameless Magery). I'll note both of these books are still on my shelf, and I only keep things I intend to re-read, but I've never re-read these. I don't know how I ( Read more... ) -
As You Are
The As You Are Now meme:
Take a picture of yourself, as you are right now, no changing clothes or makeup or especially photoshop, and post it.
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Writing Anyway
Stephanie Burgis asks (by way of this interview with Sarah Prineas):
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Sometimes, when I'm doing other things, I'm aware of the seething emotions and vibrant colors of an entire kingdom that lives somewhere between the strata of my conscious and subconscious minds ( Read more... ) -
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The hind-brain knows we're done with the edit, because it attempted to sabotage me by not bringing down my jump drive this morning. Of course, I did email it to myself, so it's not like I have to get out of my chair and bounce up two flights of steps to go get it, so ( Read more... ) -
30 TV Questions
Thirty days of TV? No. But I want to answer, because it's good stuff to do during my breaks from editing, besides reading The Fire in Fiction.
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Sleep is for the weak. Or those without deadlines.
Was up at 7:30. Have eggs in me (tarragon and cream cheese scrambled eggs, tarragon to spice them without salt and cream cheese to stretch the eggs a little, as there were only two... we are deliberately dwindling down the cottage summer foodstock), and half a blueberry muffin. My father-in-law is going to install three-prong outlets so I can use ( Read more... ) -
Book Report
My book, that is.
We are still debating the title. I dreamed last night that we'd decided on Reveka's Curse, which is awful, but in the dream logic, I was so happy to have a decision. Of course, I know from watching my friends go through this that the title debates could last forever ( Read more... ) -
My north is your left
I'm reading this article (recommended by my old linguistics prof on Facebook--man, the world is different than it once was), and there's a whole bit about Guugu Yimithirr--a language that, when it was discovered by linguists, turned all their assumptions about language on end. Particularly, Guugu Yimithirr doesn't have "behind" and "in front of" ( Read more... ) -
Plueah
So frustrated by unresolved computer issues right now. Bearable becomes unbearable with the application of time, or it can do. More to the point, "bearable for a day or two" becomes unbearable when it turns inot more like a week. Also? Moving all the peripherals to the system you think is fixed but is just being tested--tests one's patience. ( Read more... )