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One Of These Days I Will Write Up A Long Blog Post About Why I Love Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Originally posted at Uncreated Conscience.
But not today. Because today my DVDs arrived from Amazon, which means I will most likely go home, ignore the mountain of work I have, and watch the series again from start to finish, this time with commentary.
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Me and My Baby Face
Originally posted at Uncreated Conscience.- KOREAN LADY GIVING ME A FACIAL: You should take better care of your skin, especially during your student years. You don’t want to have to spend a lot of money to get your skin looking this young again.
- JJ: …I’m not a student.
- KLGMAF: No? How old are you?
- JJ: I’m 26.
- KLGMAF: Omona, omona!* You gave me a heart ( Read more... )
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Best Reads of 2011
Originally posted at Uncreated Conscience.
It’s that time of year again, as 2011 draws to a close, when JJ picks her Best Reads books. This year’s been a bit of a mixed bag for me, and despite the spate of new and shiny YA titles with attendant romances and cool dystopian/fantasy/sci-fi settings that came out in 2011, the books that have stayed with ( Read more... ) -
YA as Genre or YA as Reading Level
Originally posted at Uncreated Conscience.
Lately I’ve been mulling over a question that seems to crop up in a lot of what I read for both work and pleasure, namely whether or not a definition of YA exists. Of course YA exists, but what it is seems to be a fluid idea, shaped by many different considerations: age of protagonist, marketing concerns, ( Read more... ) -
Typical Work Day
Originally posted at Uncreated Conscience.- COLLEAGUE: Oh my god.
- JJ: What? Did you find another crazy copyedit note?
- COLLEAGUE: No, someone sent me a video of alpacas.
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Shared Trypophobia
Originally posted at Uncreated Conscience.- PSYCHIC ROOMMATE: Today’s Google welcome is seriously trypophobic. Fair warning.
- JJ: Not us! We have a turkey!
- PSYCHIC ROOMMATE: Really?! Oh wow, Google France has a really long elaborate Stanislas Lem game.
- JJ: Heh, if I type Google.fr I can get to the game. It’s not as bad as you’re making it out to be. Yet ( Read more... )
