I have 4 pet mice which I've posted about here before. In the last 24 hours, Minnie (the white feeder mouse I first rescued from being snake dinner who started my menagerie) is suddenly not well. She's lethargic and radiating "not well" and sleeping on the floor of her cage, unwilling (unable?) to climb back up into her nest. No other obvious ( Read more... )

The talented and very insightful Jacqueline Lichtenberg is writing an irritatingly correct series of blogs posts on editing and how one as a professional writer needs to interface with it, at least in terms of the realities of what an editor deals with.  Screamingly excellent food for thought and for myself a timely reminder, because I will ( Read more... )

I just wanted to say, I've been doing a lot of self-work regarding my creative process, and it is finally starting to pay off. I am writing more easily now (not like hair-pulling just to sit down and contemplate a scene), characters are starting to run the show again, and I am writing some really good stuff in consequence, both novel and short- ( Read more... )

Crummy picture cuz my cellphone is cheap, but what the heck.

My sweet little mouse Max migrates in his sleeping places. One week he spent sleeping inside a toilet paper tube (mouse version of pup-tent camping?)  Another few days in a row, found him planted face down, dead asleep, in his empty snack bowl. (hahaha!)

This week he is like climbing out ( Read more... )

This person quit her job and emailed this series of pix explaining why to everyone in her office. She did this today, and it's already going viral. Most Excellent quitting, ever!

Jenny quits job on whiteboard, emails office.

UPDATE:
As others have pointed out here, turns out this is a hoax.
Apparently TheChive.com invented this story and published ( Read more... )

Once upon a time, when I was, um, 'younger', shall we say, in my dating practices, I hooked up with TW. Total babe. Very nice, and complementarily kinky to my kinks. We had a good time, but she was, alas, unwilling to be frank about her divided attentions, which is why I finally (after a few severe clue-by-4 impacts) quit going there.

But while the ( Read more... )

Just wanted to share this glimpse into Second Life, where our writer's group had our first meeting last Wed.  It was very productive, and really cool to 'meet' LJ friends "in person."

Plus my pet mouse Minnie, the cyber-version of my RL pet mouse Minnie, joined us for some cheese-nibbling fun. So that was kind kewl too.  You can glimpse her up ( Read more... )

I wanted some snacks while writing, but the house seems devoid of noshables.  There is my sister's Twinkie stash, but it might not be fair to grab one while she's out of town and can't protest in person. Besides, it's more fun to swipe your sister's snacks in front of her - well, if you're the big sister, anyway... ;).

Then I remembered seeing ( Read more... )

From Gordon Ramsey's newest show, most excellent cook says (and hear this in a N'awlins drawl):

"Once we put it all together, oh my God. Make your tongue slap your brain."

::::grin::::

I wanna cook like *that*.
(And some would say I do, but I'm not sure I've seen brains slapped quite like that, yet...)

Astounded.
Doing happy dance.

Boggled, too. One can't count on how constitutional decisions will fall out these days:

• Judge overturns gay marriage ban
  
  By JOSH GERSTEIN | 8/4/10 10:38 PM
  A federal judge rules that California's Proposition 8 violates the Constitution.
  
  

Knock me over with an f-ing ( Read more... )