Whoa, it's 2012 suddenly. Last year was long but fast ( Read more... )

From Post Captain, book 2 of Aubrey-Maturin. Jack and Stephen in a cottage outside of London, after their ship gets assaulted by French privateers between France and England. Jack (six feet tall, 240 pounds) comes home, despairs of Stephen's mess, and does domestic things to Stephen's regret.

( In Jack's opinion Stephen was little better than a slut: )

This tracking thing isn't really working out, so I think I'll go untrack people. I miss my icons, though.

On the other hand, funny how people will sometimes use what you give them against you.

Back to 5AM tomorrow.

P.S. It's all right to be scared.

I've been waking up at 5am every day to not be late for work. Ever since school started in the country, my dad, whom I usually hitch a ride to the train station with, has been leaving the house at 5:45am to get my idiot brother to school at 7am. Hitching a ride with my mother, who leaves at 7:30am, is harrowing because I am always late, so leave at ( Read more... )

Didn't leave me a lot of options for icons, did it... But at least it still tracks things.

Excerpt from Aubrey-Maturin Book 1: Master and Commander[Stephen Maturin, espying the sloop-of-war Sophie from the window of his mountainside abode, his feet in a basin of water and writing a diary ( Read more... )

-- where did half the year go ( Read more... )

So I told myself at the turn of the new year that I'd write on my LJ, but then January came and went (unbelievably fast, like a speedster on mefenamic [I spelled that right!] acid and coffee) and no journal entry. But today is Chinese New Year, where I truly consider 2011 to start (not out of any particular cultural belief, but I do follow the ( Read more... )

Things we'll never get in the Philippine bookstore, but must find a way to get:

A Sea of Words, companion guide to the Aubrey-Maturin series.

Lobscouse and Spotted Dog: Which It's a Gastronomic Companion to the Aubrey/Maturin Novels for the recipes there. So awesome. It will do well with Dining with Sherlock Holmes. I particularly want to try ( Read more... )

1. I have lately been caught up in ebooks. lonelybusiness introduced me to the wonder that is Mobipocket, and though the converter by Calibre sometimes skips lines from .lit, it serves very, very well. Last week I read Demon's Covenant by Sarah Rees Brennan (I still can't decide if I like or loathe Mae), and the sixth of Temeraire by Naomi Novik (the new dragon ( Read more... )

How could I have spent the past few years of my life reading and spelling mefenamic acid as mefanamic acid when I used to drink it all the time.

I has a sad. A BIG SADNESS.