1) It’s not the cold I mind so much, it’s the dark. I always hit my lowest point during this time of year, and it has a lot to do with all that dark, overcompensating with too much eating (used to be pizza and nachos, now it’s cheese-covered broccoli and sausage), too much brooding, and […]
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Disappointing for those of us who really like the good (or at least the “better”) folks to live, but a thrilling, bloody, suspenseful, incredibly well-acted and wonderfully scripted little movie. It’s a darker, grittier, smarter version of Unforgiven. Also: blood and guns and assasins and drug deals gone wrong! Great performances all around; smart, tough,
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I got this from Karen Meisner. I will send a gift to the first 3 people who leave a comment here on my blog. I don’t know what that gift will be yet, but you will receive it within 365 days (likely sooner than later). This may end up being almost anything (but probably books
Snapshots from the life of a tech-writer-working-for-health-insurance (who also happens to be a freelance-fiction-author-working-to-pay-off-credit-card-debt-and-maintain-sanity): 5:35 am: Wake up, test sugar and check email. Take 15 u Lantus shot and breakfast bolus. Shots always come first thing. 5:35-5:50am: morning free weights and situps routine. I don’t wake up properly until I do this. 5:50-6:05am: Make today’s
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Perfect. Absolutely fucking perfect. At least they realized, the second time around, to keep their time in Egypt short. Whoever the fuck cast that chick as Cleopatra should have been fired. She’s the weakest part of the show. Dump her for somebody who’s actually interesting, and it would have been a perfect show. But really,
150 pages into Undertow, they were still having tea and discussing plot. There’s nothing inherently WRONG with having tea and discussing plot, but you know, you do it enough times, for enough pages, and it gets really dull. Also, I had a tough time connecting with any of these characters. The assassin is dull and
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Registered for Wiscon today. I’d been back and forth about going for awhile, but Jackie was looking for a roommate, and *I* was looking for a roommate, and it started to seem like a good idea again. So, it’s on.
I stepped out of the elevator at work this morning and was confronted by a big countdown paper sign that said “22 Days.” Ah, yes… It’s now 22 days until Tax Season. If you didn’t know that, well, then, like me, you’ve never worked in the tax business before. It’s like a whole other way
Wrote 1500 words today. Tonight, there’s nothing to clean because I caught up on all that on Saturday. Bills are paid and filed. Ate some cheese. Watched the first half of “Out of Africa.” Just reading the last 50 pages of Undertow. Already modded two ponies this month. I guess I could could go back
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