• Quick! Help me!

    I’m helping out on a GISHWHES (call me a minion) and I need some reasons why telegraphs will be making a comeback. Gimme all you got. I’m working up a script and I need more. MORE. And fast. Shoot them…

  • Pull up your pants, pull down your shirt

    We went shopping today for shorts for my husband.  We were on the way out when this man came into the store. He was large. He wore his shorts cinched very low beneath a large gut and his shirt only…

  • A post is made

    I got writing done today. It was the most focused writing day I’ve had in awhile. Felt almost like I was back to normal. Of course keeping the children out was nearly impossible. School starts in a month. I’m holding…

  • Sweeping some things up

    Culling out the old life means cancelling some things and getting rid of some things, including www.twistedink.net . I had to pay for it myself for students to develop an online webzine. The department apparently didn’t feel it was important…

  • Coast

    Went to the coast today and walked for a ways with the fam and dogs. It was lovely. But when we got out there we realized that we didn’t think to bring jackets and it was gray with fog and…

  • moving right along

    I’m never quite sure when it’s accurate to say I lost another pant size. But today I put on a pair of pants I haven’t worn in a long long time. A size down from what I’ve been wearing, and…

  • Bleedy bleedy bleedy and appearances

    If I was a knight and I was required to swing a sword, I’d probably have no legs. Or arms. Pretty much I’d be the Monty Python Black Knight. Sigh. Reading Laura Anne Gilman‘s Heart of Briar. It’s pretty damned…

  • Progress

    I found my promotion and tenure folder and files today. Inside is all the evidence I used for obtaining promotion and tenure.  I didn’t add anything to it after that, really. I don’t have any expectation of ever going back…

  • Somewhat diminishing boxes

    There are two reefs of boxes in the house. One is essentially books. It is quite large. I will have to cull. I did not dig deep enough before. The second is everything else. It is diminishing somewhat. Today I…