It's amazing how sudden catastrophic disasters really show up how shitty nearly all out local journalism is when it comes to basic things like. Writing. Or not asking retarded questions like, "Are we going to rebuild the Cathedral?" when, 36 hours later, there are still up to twenty people missing inside it.

I want it to be next week.

So I was looking for my Batman Begins and Dark Knight DVDs and not finding them, when it occurred to me we have a shit tonne of DVDs. So in a spur of madness, I inventoried them all. I excluded music DVDs and instructional DVDs, included TV seasons, and also counted anything I have on my computer.

And why have madness when you don't share it?

( 204 titles, 23 of which are digital )

Started NaNoWriMo again ( Read more... )

So work is interesting. That's probably the wrong word to use. Work is uninteresting and it seems more like time-filler, where the real work seems to be getting along with people, being social, making a mean cup of coffee, keeping a stock of sticky notes, rearranging filing, and going to the bathroom ( Read more... )

Today I picked up my new pairs of glasses.

( HERE BE PICTURES )

I am on a Wikipedia journey and Toru tries to save me from myself ( Read more... )

"Why don't you write a book like this?"

It wasn't an unfair question -- it's not as though I hadn't considered writing insipid vampire romances, wars between bloodsuckers and lycanthropes, had given her meager pages of it in the past (and to her, I'm probably still that same 14 year old girl who would be a goth if it wasn't so expensive).

Why ( Read more... )

I don't update my LiveJournal very often and when I do, it's to share quotes. This is because I am not very happy ( Read more... )

This is me describing the first three minutes of an episode of Fastlane, which was an intensely gratuitous show in the early 2000s about cops with no badges who live like criminals and fight crime and one of them isn't really a cop ( Read more... )

I bought Marigold today for a few bucks, it was on sale. All because of raptorkitten. Hooraaay.