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shana's LiveJournal:
| Monday, November 9th, 2009 | |
| 12:25 pm | |
| Monday, November 2nd, 2009 | |
| 6:01 pm | Poll #1479976 Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 8 Should my new story have:
View Answers Magic Zeppelins Ninjas Dragons Ghosts Spirits Shapeshifters Cats Chocolate Gods Guns Swords Spies A plot ticky box |
| Saturday, October 31st, 2009 | |
| 9:57 am | Happy birthday ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} redrose999! |
| Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 | |
| 9:53 am | |
| Friday, October 16th, 2009 | |
| 7:43 pm | Today is the kind of gray, clammy day that I think of as November. I'm toying around with a story idea; I may play with it during the next few weeks while people are working on NaNoWriMo. I'm not going to try to do anything that substantial; if I can average a page a day I'll be more than happy. My sinuses are not happy. I am going to go to bed early with Zenna Henderson for comfort reading, as my brain is not up to beta reading today. I hope tomorrow will be better. It's interesting that I decided to reread it before I went to Tor.com and discovered Jo Walton had done so last week. |
| Saturday, September 26th, 2009 | |
| 7:55 pm | A few days ago, someone linked to this Victorian virtual paper doll http://www.orbitbooks.net/soulless/ The tagline for the book ("SOULLESS is a comedy of manners set in Victorian London: full of werewolves, vampires, dirigibles, and tea-drinking") sounded intriguing, and there was a copy of it in our library system, so I put in a request for it. It came and I read it. It was a lot of fun; I like comedies of manners. I've ordered a copy of my own and friended gailcarriger, the author.If you're looking for a dark and angsty book, this isn't the one you're looking for. But if you want an intelligent and competent heroine who doesn't hesitate to take action when she feels it is called for, even if it isn't quite what her mother would approve of, this is a lot of fun. |
| Monday, August 24th, 2009 | |
| 4:41 pm | 61 years ago... ... at a judge's office in Philadelphia, my parents got married. They then went to Atlantic City for their honeymoon. Initially his parents were appalled that my father was marrying a shiksa, but once they met her they loved my mother. That's why my grandfather forged a religious marriage certificate for them. We celebrated yesterday, with takeout from the Cheesecake Factory, my parents and brother and I. Current Mood:  thankful |
| Monday, July 13th, 2009 | |
| 9:54 pm | |
| Friday, June 19th, 2009 | |
| 9:53 pm | Power outages are a pain. We lost power for about an hour. Our whole apartment complex, and the ones we can see from our windows. I used the light from my laptop screen to find the battery powered lamp, and once I had that I tracked down flashlights and candles. I was just about to go to bed early when the power came back. Now I'll go to bed. |
| Saturday, June 13th, 2009 | |
| 3:52 pm | I've lost weight I'm not sure how much, because I haven't been weighing myself regularly. ( Read more... ) |
| Friday, May 29th, 2009 | |
| 2:24 pm | |
| Saturday, May 16th, 2009 | |
| 4:15 pm | I still have a Dreamwidth invitation if anyone wants one. Tree pollen is still bad, but at least the stuff that I'm most allergic to (birch and beech) washed away in the storms last week. I am now up to half a brain -- enough to want to work on game stuff, but not enough to actually, you know, write anything good. I have the idea of what I want to say, but the words aren't working. I'm going to try to limit my computer time this weekend. I'll be offline when the thunderstorms go through. (While I can still use the laptop, we take down the network in storms. Just in case.) But my back has been bothering me. If I can get it feeling better, tomorrow I'll go visit with the twins and their parents. But right now a 75 mile drive doesn't sound appealing. |
| Friday, May 1st, 2009 | |
| 6:22 pm | I apologize to anyone I owe email or tags to; allergies have eaten my brain. I'll try to get caught up this weekend; feel free to nag me by email. I'm not deliberately ignoring you, but I may have forgotten stuff. I don't intend to do anything with my Dreamwidth account at the moment, other than claim my name, but I have some invitation codes if anyone wants one. |
| Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 | |
| 8:34 pm | I know it was a discussion on lj -- probably a month or two ago -- that led me to reserve Michelle Sagara's Cast in Shadow. I had to wait for it -- only one copy in the county. I don't know how long it's been since a new book has gripped me and made me get the whole series. And read it twice. I've been reading favorite authors and re-reading old favorites for months, but Cast in Shadow gripped me and I had to finish it. Fortunately it was Friday when I got the next two, so it didn't matter that I stayed up until two reading. I bought the fourth one yesterday, and I'm just about finished my second run through it. I'm running a low-grade fever; I don't have any other definite symptoms, though. I think this is what my mother had this weekend. At least I can sleep late tomorrow; my boss asked me to take the late shift for her. |
| Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 | |
| 8:50 pm | Better... I'm feeling better, but I'm going to be careful about what I eat for a couple of days. It was busy at work today, but I made it through the day. I'm tired, though. I'm going to try to get to bed early and hope tomorrow will be better. |
| Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 | |
| 2:55 pm | Sick Stomach bug. Left work early, managed to get home safely. Low grade fever, chills. So far the chicken soup I had a little while ago is staying down. Going back to bed. Don't worry if you don't hear from me for a bit. Current Mood:  nauseated |
| Friday, March 20th, 2009 | |
| 10:11 pm | Lunacon This woman had an awesome steampunk wheelchair. I asked her if there were pictures, and she told me: http://steampunktinman.livejournal.com/ |
| Thursday, March 19th, 2009 | |
| 9:39 pm | Lunacon... ...starts tomorrow. It's my local con, a twenty minute drive -- which is good because I have a lot to do tomorrow; packing, errands, chiropractor and getting my hair done. But once we get to the hotel, there should be a little time to relax and recover before the running around starts. I will be checking email whenever I go back to the room; I'm hoping that maybe there will be a game update or tag... I'm going to try to make the lj meet and greet. I'll try to be there when it starts, and cut out if it gets too crowded for me. I reallly don't like being in a mob of people. I'm not sure what the technical term for it is. Time to get ready for bed, because tomorrow is going to be busy. |
| Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 | |
| 3:13 pm | Five years ago today... ...I picked up my new car, my first. An Ice Blue Saturn L-300. It's paid for now; I'm just waiting for the paper confirmation that it's MINE, ALL MINE from GMAC. |
| Thursday, March 12th, 2009 | |
| 8:24 pm | Home... ... and after 10 hours away from a computer it's amazing how much I have to catch up on. My new computer arrived yesterday, and I have begun to download the stuff I want to put on it. (Ye gods the patches on NWN2 are HUUGE! I hope the game is worth the trouble.) Today I went down to NJ to visit Suzanne and the twins. The babies were intent on eating, with short play breaks. She'd nurse one while I gave a bottle to the other. I left a little earlier than I'd planned, but the babies were both asleep, so I told Sue to take a nap while she could. Dave said hello when he got in, then went to bed. The babies had kept them up most of the night. They've gotten bigger and heavier and wigglier; they can almost hold their heads up by themselves now. It won't be too much longer before they won't stay where they're put. I'm going to try to catch up on lj and usenet and go to bed. The new computer can wait. |
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