I've only rarely made New Year's Resolutions - I have a problem with speaking goals aloud and then pursuing them to completion. In fact, I can usually accomplish exactly one or the other. This year, however, I'm tempting the fate made by me and taking two Resolutions ( Read more... )

I'm better today than yesterday, and right now that's a hugely positive statement ( Read more... )

Okay, so I know I promised a substantial follow-up post, and didn't come through...but I didn't want to write what I was really feeling these first two weeks, which was dissatisfaction. I arrived to find out I'll only be teaching 15 hours a week, and to get those I'll be cannibalizing two other teachers' schedules - they won't start more than one ( Read more... )

My 14 year old cousin is lusting over Edward Cullen. I am VERY PROTECTIVE of this cousin. I didn't want to do this, but...

the time has come for me to read Twilight. Pray for my sanity, I'm going to need all the help I can get.

I read Tithe, by Holly Black, and I was impressed with the worldbuilding, especially the politics among the Faery. I was less impressed with Kay, she rubbed me wrong for some reason.

Big, huge BUT here - from what I know of my recommender and her preferences, I expect to LOVE Ironside. So there's no danger I won't pick it up.

So...week ago today I got on a bus for Chicago...then another to Indy...then a car ride to good old Terre Haute. (For those who don't know, my good friend Keith attended school in the disreputable little city and I visited him a good few times.) And I stayed for three days in a nice little brick guesthouse on a college campus/motherhouse for the ( Read more... )

So I exercised my most important constitutional right today about 15 minutes after the polling station opened ( Read more... )

So I, being the industrious little wannabe-writer I'm becoming, checked out from the library a book by an editor-turned-agent about what prospective-writers can or should do, and what keeps people from writing and publishing. And then I devoured it in a day and a half ( Read more... )

So I am going to be in Minneapolis for just under two more weeks. Yes, this was in question: until today, I thought I might be leaving as early as Friday for orientation into my next volunteer program. Instead, I'm leaving the 9th or 10th, exact date to be decided on Thursday. I'll take a 12 hour bus ride through Chicago to Indianapolis, and spend ( Read more... )

The compelling thing about making art - or making anything, I suppose - is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance in a world of substances. Circe, Nimbue, Artemis, Athena, all the old sorceresses: they must have known the feeling as they transformed mere men into fabulous creatures, stole the ( Read more... )