• Home again

    I am home, exhausted and feeling sickly. Not sure why. Started yesterday. Hoping it’s nothing. Norwescon was lovely fun. I only wish I could have found a way to spent more time with people by going to parties, but with…

  • Hit the Road Jack!

    And that is what I plan to do tomorrow. I’m heading to Norwescon after I get done with my teaching. So excited. Can’t wait. But that means I won’t be here for the next five days or so. I hope…

  • Scary publishing

    My Horngate books are published by Simon and Schuster (also known as Pocket Books), and so this particularly effects me, but it also effects readers. Right now, Barnes and Noble is not ordering a lot of S&S books into its…

  • I survived! and my Norwescon Schedule

    I survived the sleepover. Except that girlie now has what you might euphemistically call intestinal distress. By which I mean I’m washing a lot of clothes and her sheets (that I incidentally watched just yesterday) because, well, it got ugly,…

  • The state of me

    Is surprisingly sane. I have an extra girl here and apparently little girls turn into freaking cocaine-jumped-up kangaroos when they get together. They were (thankfully and finally) playing outside when a friend drove by with her father and she stopped…

  • Dead Roman Emperors and life

    It was Roman day at boy’s school today and he was assigned a famous Roman to dress up as. He wore a toga and gold laurel head piece and this ornament pin we made him. So that was exciting. Oh,…

  • I feel smart

    I’m teaching advanced literary theory right now, with a focus on postcolonialism. Of course, that means by default I also teach a lot theory about power, Marxist criticism, structuralism, and so on. It’s a microscopic class size, which is very…

  • Snippet of Soul Mage

    It’s cold. As in a miserable wind chill. Of course, by the looks of the storms hitting east of here, from Minnesota to Main to Florida, I’ve nothing to complain about. So I will endeavor not to. First day of…

  • One of those days

    I had one of those days that really are productive, but at the end you wonder just what the hell you did and where did the day go? So I’ll recap for myself: vacuumed entire house (AND actually moved some…

  • Old or antique?

    The purple I put in my hair is not holding. That means my hair is too healthy. Dammit. So I have to do a bit of bleaching apparently. The color is also oddly darker than usual, so maybe the bleach…