I'm with Adam here.

Originally posted by yendi at So
I went to bed last night before the Ferguson lack of indictment was announced. But I can't say I was surprised. Disappointed, but not surprised. Between the decision to announce at night and the gathering of police, it was pretty obvious that they were not going to indict Darren Wilson, and that the ( Read more... )

Bash, whose nickname is Murder Cat, apparently has a corneal ulcer caused or exacerbated by ocular herpes ( Read more... )

Not much this year; I wrote nothing in 2013 for reasons, which overlapped with barely writing anything in 2012 for Judah-reasons. So no poetry this year (unless one of the two pending poems comes out in the next month), and just two short stories.

"The Final Girl".

"The Cartographer's Requiem"I like the latter just fine, but the former's where my ( Read more... )

* We have been without a furnace for over three weeks now. >.> The part that failed was installed in 1961, and apparently there were structural and safety concerns. Landlord and contractors went back and forth on repair vs. replacement for a while until the contractors flatly refused to repair ("we don't wanna get sued"), so the old furnace was ( Read more... )

Enough details are emerging around the edges that it pretty much makes no difference whether I say what I have or not at this point, so: my mutation is on COL3A1. That's Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome type IV, vascular, aka vEDS, which is what I'll be referring to it as because otherwise that's a lot to type. La la la more linksWe were already looking at ( Read more... )

Today I finished Atul Gawande's latest book, Being Mortal. I love Gawande's work - he has a stunning compassion about him, in the way he writes about medicine. I first heard about the new book via this excerpt, which is worth reading to begin with ( Read more... )

Still not talking about Monday's results, but there's this ( Read more... )

* Well, I got my genome-sequencing results back. It is... not good. I'm not sharing publicly until I do another test (full-body imaging to determine exactly how much to panic) and have some family conversations. It will be public eventually, in that it'll sorta have to be - the most likely potentially-fatal complication is something that's low on ( Read more... )

I have been meaning to deliver an update! I just hadn't done so because we were in the middle of it all. There's a lull, now ( Read more... )

And have my two "okay, I guess I write horror" stories.

"Becca at the End of the World"

"The Final Girl".