Won NaNo. 

Warning - pic heavy.  I have not been arsed to figure out, on my aging computer with four options for sizing pictures three of which I cannot understand and one of which I don't know how to get this photo into,how  to resize them,  so they will take 1000 years to load, sorry.  to add insult to injury, I can't figure out how to even hide them under ( Read more... )

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

What is there to say.  Little children.  Little tiny children.  Little tiny snotty-nosed cute children.

It beggars the imagination.

I would love to say something brilliant here that would somehow stop all such things in the future, but there is no such thing.

So this week in the nice report ( Read more... )

It's here!  It's here!  I are so excited....

(Dear flist - this may be long and boring, but it is really important to me and I hope some of you actually read it all the way to the end...it should, at least, have amusing parts...)

I may have mentioned casually somewhere along the line that I am not particularly athletic.  I should clarify.  I am not particularly athletic the way Neville ( Read more... )

I've actually had a number of really nice things happen lately...

Last week, when I had to show up to a militia function with a rag wrapped around my head like a brain surgery patient, everyone was nice enough not to notice unless I mentioned it, and then they said it was fine.

And when I was absently commenting on my family, a Raveler posted to ask ( Read more... )

um... See mah icon?

That's mah icon.

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One of the nicest Christmas presents I've received this year, and certainly the most unexpected, is that my story Chestnuts was recorded for the audiofictions.



It was a tremendous pleasure to hear it read in a man's voice, and one who managed an in-character Severus as well as a very creditable Harry. This story was nominated to be read years ago, ( Read more... )