Taxi to the airport is booked...for 5:15 a.m. *groan* Did I mention that I am most definitely NOT a morning person?
But this trip sounds like it will be so, so worth it! Fifteen days of tromping around ancient Phoenician, Greek, and Roman ruins, medieval churches, and museums galore! It sounds like heaven...
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Those of you who read this blog, and my other blog (at Michaela-August.com) know that I travel a lot, and that usually bring my mini-laptop along and blog about my adventures while I'm on the road.

I decided to go ahead and take the plunge to apply for the Best Job Ever...a one-year contract as a blogger and "Chief World Explorer" for Jauntaroo, a ( Read more... )

When I got home from work today, I found in my mailbox the official travel packet from Archaeological Tours, with all of my paperwork, plus a "reader" of Xeroxed materials from professor on ancient Greek art and architecture, detailed maps of all the archaeological sites we're going to visit (including floorplans of the houses and temples, which ( Read more... )

To my pleasure, HuluPlus has started offering an extensive anime line-up, both subbed (my preference) and dubbed, and sometimes both formats for a series that's been out a while.

On to the Code:Breaker review... Here was a stylishly-animated action/adventure series that promised to be interesting, especially when the high-schooler heroine, Sakura ( Read more... )

My week came to a great end with the news that the Glass Souls audiobook is now available at Audible.com and on iTunes ( Read more... )

Received a surprise email message from my publisher today:

Congratulations! We wanted to let you know Glass Souls
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Had a wonderful time in Alaska last month.  My longtime friend Jennise, her family, and I took a one-week cruise from Anchorage to Vancouver. I then stayed in Vancouver four extra days to do some sightseeing ( Read more... )

One of the highlights of my autumn 2008 trip to Japan was a weekend spent in Hakone, the beautiful mountain resort near Tokyo. There, my friends and I stayed at a traditional ryokan (bed-and-breakfast), enjoying the hot springs and visiting the famous lake.

I recently realized that I never did get around to uploading all my photos from my trip to Japan a few years back... here are my photos from Tokyo.

Had a really nice day relaxing with friends at an informal anime-viewing day yesterday.

We watched a variety of stuff--several first episodes of things currently airing on Crunchyroll, plus a side-by-side viewing of the first couple of episodes of the old Rurouni Kenshin series
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