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Fun with Google Voice
Sometimes I get, ah, noticed because I have some sort of accent. Apparently Google Voice (which transcribes your voice messages into texts) has a bit of trouble with it as well. Philipp had read Howl's Moving Castle, and asked what other books by Diana Wynne Jones I recommended. He noticed that the bookstore had Dark Lord of Derkholm, Castle in the ( Read more... ) -
how to tell you live in new york
I'm going to be visiting my friend in Olean today. To get to her house involves driving through Wales, South Wales, Holland, and Yorkshire (in that order). I will, of course, not be going anywhere near Syracuse, Ithaca, or Rome, since those are a couple hours away. -
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America was somehow not destroyed by England in their opening game. Mostly thanks to England, as it turns out. -
Good movie
The other day I finally saw "How to Train your Dragon." Very cute. Did anyone else find it odd that, even though it was about vikings, all of the adults had Scottish accents and/but all of the kids had American accents? -
songbird morning
This morning, I opened the sliding doors to my balcony. After a while, I noticed a goldfinch hopping around the railing, then the table and chairs. Soon his wife joined him and started pecking industriously at the twine holding the paintbrush. A bit after that, a sparrow joined them. They were momentarily scared off when I closed the screen door ( ( Read more... ) -
you know you lived in colorado too long, when...
or, In New York, It Rains More than Once a Year ( Read more... ) -
BOOK CHALLENGE 2010!!
I didn't capitalize the numbers, but they look capital in that context, don't they? In pleasant conversation with my co-workers today, I recalled the Book Challenge of 2008. It was kind of successful. I made that post almost exactly two years ago, which tells me that today is a good day to decide on/announce a book challenge of 2010. Are you with ( Read more... ) -
litter training fail
I read in various places that it was possible to train guinea pigs to use a litter box, so I thought I'd give it a try -- make things way easier for me. So I bought a tiny ferret/rabbit litter box, put it in Thistle's favorite business corner, and before I could even fill it with litter he ran into it and lay down. Even when I put the litter into ( Read more... ) -
slooooowly getting back into the fanfic world
meme as seen on cairnsy . Have I shamelessly linked to almost every fanfiction I've ever written? Yes. Yes I have.
1. Which is your favorite fic? Rokunen Mae. I like the characterizations, and it was my first "real" fanfic that I'm not embarrassed of.
2. Which is your best-received fic? This kills me, but with 111 reviews on fanfiction.net, Fairy Tale ( Read more... )