Nov
13
Migraine = No coherent post.
Believe me, I tried to write one. It didn’t even make sense to me.
Feb
07
Daily work plus commute: 14 hours
Nightly sleep: 7 hours
Basic personal hygiene: 1 hour
Household maintenance (meals, cleaning, pet care, laundry): 1.5-2 hours
Very small margin of error, that. Good thing Acorn’s perfectly willing to shoehorn in some quality time, forcing me to multitask time spent with him while doing everything but the first item on that [...]
Dec
20
Today, I had a hit to my site from someone searching for “little boys in girlish clothes.” Please pass the mental floss.
Dec
20
Seriously? You flag “Google?” And “blog?” Shouldn’t knowledge of certain words be part of the job requirement?
Edited to add: Spellcheck. Really? Yep, but spellchecker is A-OK. Disturbingly, it seems the spellchecker doesn’t check post titles. Hat tip to SueWho.
Nov
01
We were three teens in a movie theater, watching Casper the Friendly Ghost.
CASPER: Cinderella got to stay out until midnight!
FAIRY GODMOTHER: Cinderella wasn’t twelve years old.
You leaned over and asked in a whisper, “How old is Casper, anyway?”
***
This is my first post in Project x365, in which authors daily write brief character sketches of [...]
May
04
To the left of this post, you’ll see a new section called Featured Posts in my sidebar. I’ve done away with my traditional blogroll in favor of an RSS feed in which I’ll be placing links to my favorite posts from other people’s blogs. Thanks, Zero Boss!
This will allow me to have a much shorter [...]
Apr
02
Still caught up in other writing projects, plus things are busy at work. While you wait (with bated breath, no doubt) for my ever-so-scintillating words, here are some other things that might be worth reading.
Seriously. There are only about thirteen of you. I don’t want any of you turning blue.
If you need some ideas for [...]
Dec
01
To whoever reached my blog through a search for “lizzie borden 5 paragraph essay”:
The knowledge that I wasted a little of your time as you tried to find an essay to plagiarize for your 9th grade English class gives me a warm, happy feeling.
To anyone else who arrives here with similar intent in the future:
If [...]
Nov
30
I saw this first over at Bitch, PhD. Today it keeps popping up on my WordPress dashboard as one of the most-linked sites. Scott Eric Kaufman is trying to measure the speed with which a meme travels and how it moves — among minor blogs,
from megablogs to their fans, etc. I’m not [...]
Nov
29
Because fudging your timestamp is against NaBloPoMo rules… but editing your post after midnight isn’t. And I’m afraid the electricity (and with it the internet) will go out soon, here. The lights are already blinking with the storm.
Editor’s Note: I did indeed finish the post I was working on and post it at [...]