OK, so my sister is now also obsessed with John Oliver, perhaps not quite to my level of delusion, but to an equally unhealthy degree and we've been writing to the Bugle under the pen name "Joanna the Mad" from an email address she created specifically for the project. We like to think of it as a creative writing project and weekly we write a ( Read more... )

As most of the people who read this journal (hi Lacey and Blandine) know I'm an events coordinator for a largish independent bookstore and I have to deal with a lot (an ever increasing number in fact) of self published authors whose books are sometimes good and sometimes really, really, really, really, really bad. So I read with interest an ( Read more... )

OK, so last week sometime, (things are a bit fuzzy because I don't like to think of a time when I didn't know about The Bugle Podcast, available on itunes and at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/thebugle) I came across a bitingly satirical podcast called The Bugle. It is done by John ( Read more... )

OK, so I am very disheartened by our election. I feel like there's going to be no change and I can't stand the thought of another Conservative government, especially a Conservative majority. Fortunately, Stephen Harper's Conservatives can't help themselves, they're constantly showing how bigoted and nasty they play, but I worry that people don't ( Read more... )

So, Blandine moved back to France and I told her I would send her a list of things she had to do by the end of September. I started the list so that Blandine would not become a lonely shut in, reading fic and venturing out only for soup. So far my list consists of (in no particular order ( Read more... )

So far, I've done fantastic things in NYC, but my 5 favorites are ( Read more... )

Well, I made it to NYC, yeah. My flights were fine and I took an airport shuttle to my guest house (Efuru guest house http://www.efuru-nyc.com/) and I had dinner at a really nice restaurant called Native (the soup was fantastic) They don't have a website, but here's what other people are ( Read more... )

So it's been about 6 months since my last post (well not quite, but whatever) and I have somethings to show for it. I'm now working on chapter 4 (and will have a draft, god willing by the beginning of June). I have the possibility of two full time jobs (real jobs, not extra jobs needed) and I haven't written any fic, well that's not quite true, ( Read more... )

Aaaaarrrrrggggghhhhhhhhh!!!!!! So, I've been slaving away on Chapter 3 for what seems like an eternity and it's almost 3 weeks late (on my new schedule, if you listened to some people, the ones in my head, it's 2 years late, but I digress) I was supposed to get it to my new fabulous supervisor at the beginning of the month and I didn't and I did ( Read more... )

So, the strike ended this weekend, yeah. I get to work inside again, but the whole strike thing put my dissertation a couple of weeks behind. First the strike cut me off from stuff I needed and then I wasn't ready for it to end and it made my schedule for this week crazy. Oh, well at least the term is over.