Nice weekend! I feel a lot more recharged than I have in a while ( Read more... )

...And Easter continues to continue! Today's rabbits are truly bottom-of-the-barrel beasties. Take this guy for example.


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At a conference with about 60 secondary English teachers. The amount of pedantry in one room is astonishing--usually I have to go to a church service for this ( Read more... )

Bwaaah. I'm not going to say I want my weekend back, because we did a lot of good things, but I would like an extra, say, half day to recouparate and clean the paste off the kitchen counters ( Read more... )

So church is doing a "potluck" tomorrow, sponsored by my team and the dir of religious education. I told her that we'd bring bread (Bread! Bread for the bread god!) and the DRE was going to bring vegetarian soup ( Read more... )

Interesting. I'm working with talent sheets and actors' guild permissions for a Children's Television Workshop film clip. The list of actors have a note saying "Muppet? Yes/No." I ask myself this every day.

Aww. I was doing a little weeding in my garden, which is more weeds than garden. Actually, some of the garden has BECOME weeds, since I mostly grow very invasive herbs ( Read more... )

From "The Seduction of the Innocent," the book that more or less on its own generated the need for a comic code ( Read more... )

So right now I'm doing lots and lots of work with copyright, permissions, et cetera. Most of the authors I'm trying to get reprint permissions for are quite dead ( Read more... )

I'm guessing someone's high school assignment included posting a book review--in this case, a review of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery and Other Stories," from Barnes and Noble . com ( Read more... )