I saw the movie Ender's Game tonight.  As I said on Facebook, I think it was a fair adaptation of the book, despite having dropped a couple of sub-plots.  The zero-gravity battle-room sequences were amazing -- much better than I had imagined in my head while reading the book this past week ( Read more... )

I had a long absence from Livejournal, and when I came back, I found it difficult to read my Friends page.  It used to be that you could scroll down quite a ways (not exactly "infinite scroll", but almost), then have the option to click on "go earlier" to read even older friends' posts.  Not anymore ( Read more... )

It's that time of the year when I record all the stuff I did this summer, in an effort to convince myself that I did lots of stuff ( Read more... )

I had a patient recently return to therapy after a several month absence.  I never realized how much I missed her.  She's an aging hippy with quite an alternative lifestyle.  Quite a change from my usual patient.  Her session today was peppered with interesting comments like;

"My new boyfriend's a sweetie...I was teaching him how to roll a joint ( Read more... )

Well, I have stuff to do, but it's at home and I'm here at work.  Waiting for a patient who is late (or not coming at all perhaps).  Procrastinating on writing chart notes.  Wishing the weather were warmer.  Blah, blah, blah.  Ennui.

Sorry all (mainly sassy_fae, that stalwart of LJ fidelity).  I've been absent due to a) infatuation with Facebook and b) crazy busy with buying and selling house.

Yes, we bought a house!  Some of you already knew that doc_mystery and I were in that process, but some of you didn't.  Basically, we've found that our current house doesn't suit our needs.  For a few years ( Read more... )

doc_mystery and I have been on Carribean vacations before, but only one other since our kid was born.  Usually, someone gets sick.  And this one was no exception.  This is the main reason why I am anxious about such trips.  If I'm going to be sick (or nurse a sick kid), I'd rather do it at home.

This time however, I only have myself to blame (sort of).  By ( Read more... )

Just had a strange experience texting with my sister in China on Skype.  Sort of like dueling monologues.  Actually, I was interjecting comments on her story while she just went on and on about her stuff.

Come to think of it, wasn't much different than our real-life "conversations" when she's in the same town.

Okay, I learned my lesson the hard way about writing letters to the editor.  No matter how cogent my argument is, some yahoo's rebuttal will be printed.  So now my letters to the editor are anonymous and submitted to LJ instead.  Case in point, you may have heard that the Minister for the Status of Woman, conservative MP Rona Ambrose has been ( Read more... )

I think I'm starting to get hot flashes.  I'm only 41! (going on 42).