February 2011
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January 2011
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Have I mentioned that y’all are fantastic? Because you are. Thank you so much for all the kindness and hugz and all that schmoopy stuff I sometimes pretend I don’t care about because I get embarrassed by it/feel unworthy of it and that’s a whole other ish and I’m getting off topic so let me wrap up by saying again: Thank you. Mwah.
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Perspective
Approximate snowfall total this winter in New York City (Central Park), as of this morning: 52.3”
Approximate snowfall total this winter in Minneapolis/St. Paul, as of yesterday: 55.5”
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Two novels I reviewed this year — Tana French’s Faithful Place and Tom Franklin’s Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter — are up for a Best Novel Edgar award. If the other four nominated novels are as good, that is going to be one hell of a tough call.
They’re both exceptional novels, the kind I get halfway through and call up my mom and friends and say “You HAVE to...
Happy 30th Birthday, Buffy!
welcometothehellmouth:
Today, our fair Slayer turns the big Three-Oh. In honor of the occasion, we’ll be watching and blogging some more of Season 2 “live” (or, sort of, kind of “undead” maybe). later tonight. Stay tuned.
My first reaction to this was, “What? It’s been 30 years since Buffy was on TV? That can’t be! I am not THAT old!”
Then I realized you meant Buffy...
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Has this ever happened to you?
You toodle along, doing the thing that you get paid to do, everything’s fine and moving along smoothly, and then you wake up one morning and it feels like you HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU’RE DOING?
I mean, most likely this just means I’m in a rut and need to change gears, but it FEELS like there’s a gravitational singularity in my brain.
Then again, it is 4:15 pm. So...
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The New Zodiac
shaebay:
fakescience:
I am absolutely crushed that I’m not Spork.
Ottoman very much reflects my current lifestyle. But as I’m on the cusp, I’m claiming some Spork tendencies.
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Earlier this morning...
Me: I think I know what happened.
Dan: You've got a theory?
Me: It could be bunnies.
Dan: ... What?
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39.
And every time I think that in a little over two months I will be 40, my brain goes “LOLWUT.”
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Bluh, I apologize for the quality of the previous photo. The yarn is a pretty pomegranatey color but the photo makes it look totally washed out and brownish. Not that there’s anything wrong with brown! I am currently wearing a brown sweater! But this yarn is not brown.
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What I did today:
1. Read approx. 100 pages of my next review book
2. Wrote a couple things, including the next Doctor Who Revisited post
3. Worked on a couple cross-stitch designs (you guys, I can’t stop. It’s TOO MUCH FUN)
4. Worked out
5. Showered (Hey. The bar cannot be set too low)
6. Set things in motion to have what I hope will be an AMAZING stew with short ribs, mushrooms and kale
and now...
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Once More With Feeling →
msannethrope:
John and I have started watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer again from the beginning, and we’ve been documenting our progress here.
Nice. Follow’d!
Truthful Tuesday
beefranck:
rachelkristin:
I miss LOST.
Seconded.
Oh, man. Thirded.
I feel a marathon coming on. (I still haven’t opened the 6th season DVD box.)
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