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End-of-the-year thinkings
Yup. It's time for that strange week-between-holidays, the solstice bright-and-dark time when you look back at what you did and didn't do (why are there always more regrets than satisfactions??), and wonder about what's coming. Mortality is becoming harder to deny. My mom spent Christmas in the hospital but will hopefully be home again by New Years ( Read more... ) -
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I'd been planning to say something half-way sentient. Something about writing, or maybe urchin's recent concert, or approaching holidays, but instead, this pretty much covers what's going on in my brain.http://www.theonion.com/articles/fuck- -
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So....remember that thing wherein I said I would try to post on a rather more regular basis? Yeah, that thing. Still working on it ( Read more... ) -
Apologies
Before we moved away from Rochester, a friend there convinced me to get an Facebook account to keep in touch, because "no one uses LiveJournal"-- which I know is patently NOT TRUE. But still, I have been a poor correspondent here ( Read more... ) -
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Trees are slowly beginning to turn colors. I think we're supposed to be around 20% or so, which is ridiculous considering that it's October now ( Read more... ) -
Monday things & Stuff
(Because I'm supposed to be getting this stupid story cleaned up and ready to go out-- but instead I'm being cowardly and, after 45 min of working on it, skipping out to go mess around over here ( Read more... ) -
In other news
I bought myself a CD version of the original Star Wars soundtrack (the music of the FIRST film, which Hollywood and GL have taken to calling #4; but frankly, let's just pretend that official {and officially awful} films #1,2,and 3 never happened, okay?) as a birthday present ( Read more... ) -
THANK YOU!
Thanks so much for the cards and birthday wishes and your continuous & wonderful & supportive friendship!
You always know what to say when I need a thorough crit,
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Today we think about pens--- and pen reviewers. Pink? Purple? Skinny? Aren't those cheap little stick pens already too skinny? (Says the person who uses those foam pencil holder thingees for the occasional stick pen as well as pencils ( Read more... ) -
Just dusting....
So I dug out an old trunk story and it actually sold someplace: Sword and Sorcery Magazine , a tiny little online mag. Considering the story ("Corbane's Wish") had been Everywhere, long ago, and actually had been accepted twice (MZB, and then an MZB planned anthology, each of which went belly-up before payment or publication), it's nice to see ( Read more... )