I have spent most of the day passed out in bed with either a cold or the flu; at least one of my kittens is a mouser, but would rather play with her food; and both my kitchen sink and the ceiling over my toilet seem to be leaking slowly.

It's not so much that I want a do-over as I'd like a little moderation.

Mostly.  I might have missed a few.  (Also I refuse to italicize all these titles by hand ( Read more... )

Cincoflex came through the surgery well and is in recovery!  XD

Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers!   I told her you were thinking of her. 

Cincoflex is in the hospital for...emergency isn't quite the word, let's say urgent abdominal surgery.  She's going under tomorrow morning, all else being well, and any good thoughts you can spare her way would be greatly appreciated.  *worried sigh*

She's my bestest buddy, and I'm on the wrong coast to go see her.  I'm sure she'll be fine, but... *

...sheesh, one never knows with her.

I've posted a new short story, an inter-ep for the latest CSI episode "Under a Cloud".  If anyone out there is still watching the show, Traces of Contact is GSR and rated G.  I don't advise reading it if you haven't been watching. 

Okay, I have had it.  Susan did not get excluded from Narnia because she wore lipstick.  Good grief.  Nor, I submit, because she had become a sexual being.

“My sister Susan,” answered Peter shortly and gravely, “is no longer a friend of Narnia ( Read more... )

Okay, here’s the thing.

( Cut for the unfannish. )

Snabbled from astrogirl2 and slightly altered because I don't have much up at AO3:

I have 192 works archived at FF.net. Pick a number from 1 (the most recent) to 192 (the first thing I posted there), and I'll tell you three things I currently like about it.

Feel free to pick up for yourself if you like! 

One of the things I like about Forever Knight is the way they slip in people of color and women as minor characters.  Often the guest characters are painfully stereotypical, and Schanke is a horror, but I'm not even through the first season and I've already noted an Indian lady as a Crown prosecutor and a Black lady as a judge.  It's a little ( Read more... )

Gentlebeings, grow wise by me: pulmonary embolism can present without chest pain, merely shortness of breath.  I thought it was something simple, like pneumonia.

On the other hand, I have the fun of telling people that I'm taking rat poison...