Quote of the Day
“Stay away from people who belittle you ambitions. Small people always do that. It is the great that know that you too, can become great.”– Mark Twain
Twin Peaks: Final
Dude, that was a silly ending. In no small part because that’s what should have happened back at the beginning of the season with the owls, and the end of the season should have been bringing him back. Srsly. EDIT: And you know, there’s only so many damsels in distress you can take before it
Plotting My Way Out of a Paper Bag
As somebody who’s incredibly bad at plot, I must say I’m ridiculously proud of myself for the triple-cross that plays out at the end of this book. It fills me with glee.
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Magic Number
I wanted to start a training program that required me to be able to jog for 20 minutes in order to start with it, so tonight I figured I’d see about where my jogging ability was. The days of the 3 mile night run in Chicago were never picked up after I got sick, so
The Trouble with Black Desert is…
The first two-thirds of the book is all narrative. The last third of the book is all dialogue. Oh, for serious.
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Quote of the Day
“I worshipped dead men for their strength,Forgetting I was strong.”– Vita Sackville-West
Mirror Lessons
It occurred to me tonight while I sat in bed doing line edits of the last 50 pages or so of Black Desert that I’ve been struggling with a real blow to my self-esteem for some time now. It started when I fled Chicago, and got worse in December, despite a book contract, my own
Things That Make Me Happy
Trust me. This is an amazing improvement. Budgeting sucks, but the results are pretty tangible.
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Things Which Are Retarded
Downloading OpenOffice on a pirated wireless connection. I just don’t have any interest in unplugging my hardline from my shiny desktop. But my pirated printer won’t work on my Vista machine (without a lot of canoodling by the not-Boyfriend, and I haven’t heard from him in three or four weeks), and my OpenOffice training schedule
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My Kingdom for a Cookie
They’ve had boxes and boxes of cookies leftover from the company picnic this weekend, and today I finally gave in and snatched two of them. The carb count was 26. I figured that was what, a serving size of two cookies? Oh no, that’s for just one cookie. A whopping 52 carbs for two cookies.
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