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Ten Years After
Hard to believe -- but today, May 20, 2013, is the tenth anniversary of the "Buffy" series finale, "Chosen"! Just stopping by to commemorate that fact, and to pimp the Sunnydale High School 10th Anniversary Comment! Ficathon, about which you can read more at ( Read more... ) -
Puppy!
The face of the anxious kitten in my icon pretty well expresses how I feel right now. Next weekend we're driving up to the breeder's house to pick out our new GOLDEN RETRIEVER PUPPY, and two weeks after that we'll bring him home ( Read more... ) -
In Which I Commit Trollope Fanfic
Merry Happy, everyone! As threatened, I made a little present for my Trollope-loving friends - Lily Dale fanfic. I offer it this morning as a small gift for your winter holiday of choice. I wish you a merry Christmas if that's your celebration today, and a happy near-Solstice day in any case.
Here goes:
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So, to totally change the subject... Anyone out there into Trollope (Anthony, not Joanna)? I never read anything by him until this past year, when I read Jo Walton's "Tooth and Claw" and found out that the plot drew heavily from "Framley Parsonage." So I read that, and then "The Small House at Allington." People always talk about how long Trollope' ( Read more... ) -
Greater Love Day: Never forget. Well, maybe forget a little bit.
12 This is my commandment to you, to love one another as I have loved you. 13 No one has greater love than this--a man laying down his life for his friends.
John:12-13. This year's translation from the Weymouth New Testament.
This 2008 post explains why I think of 9/11 as "Greater Love Day."This morning a Facebook friend posted something I've ( Read more... ) -
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I just made an appointment to have our dog put down next week.
The reasons are valid, but I feel sick -- like I've just made a date with the executioner.
Sorry to dump this on all of you here, but this isn't Facebook material. :-( -
In which I am too old to rock and roll
Oh my God, I feel like such a get-off-my-lawn cranky old lady. But I have to ask -- when you buy concert tickets, don't you expect a seat?
We battled rush-hour traffic and lined up early to get good spots for last night's Jonathan Coulton concert at the Great American Music Hall. Every other time I've been there, the main floor was set up with ( Read more... ) -
Smackdown (not): Parents vs. nonparents
I have a lot of friends who, for a variety of reasons, are not parents, and I've often thought about the ridiculousness of the prejudices they face. But a sentence in a Slate piece by the always loathesome but occasionally thought-provoking Katie Roiphe made me think a little harder about my own attitudes toward them. She wrote that parents " ( Read more... ) -
I'm going to Baycon!
Bay Area friends or anyone who'll be at Baycon in Santa Clara this weekend -- I'm going! I didn't sign up sooner because the programming schedule wasn't out until this week, but once I got a look at it I knew I wanted to be there.
I'll be there under my real name, Virginia Shea. I'd love to say hi and maybe stop for a drink with any LJ friends or -
Updateosity
It's the first of May, first of May.... (Jonathan Coulton fans can fill in the rest. Not that I'm likely to be doing any of that anytime soon, at least not outdoors ( Read more... )