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Snowportmanteau!
So it looks like Seattle is done with Snowmaggedon, or Snowpocalypse or whatever you want to call it. My corner of the city didn’t get it badly, but of course that did me no good when anywhere I wanted to go was under a layer of ice… It got me thinking about weather in my…
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Excavator
I have returned to civilization! I spent about half a week at my grandparents’, which I class as a writing retreat, because there’s absolutely nothing to do in their house, above and beyond the lack of internet. Grocery shopping every few days is a grand adventure. But it did mean I finished the discovery draft…
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Obey the box
We stop for gas at a station a block off the freeway, on a route we have traveled multiple times a year for the entirety of my childhood. As we pull out, Dad boots the GPS unit, otherwise known as the Magic Box That Tells Us Where to Go: Me: Are you turning on the…
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Christmas trees
Watching other people, I feel like I somehow missed a key component of the Christmas tree experience. There’s a place just down the road that sells them, and it has a lot of different sizes this year (even the trees are smaller in this economy!) and so every time I drive past, I see people…
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Drafting process
Discovery draft troubles: (and unhelpful friends) Me: wtf time of day is it right now in my stupid novel anyway Friend: Twilight. Friend: *ducks before she gets smacked* XD
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Trapped!
My choir’s holiday concert was last night, and afterwards we went out and caroled around the neighborhood. Caroling on street corners (rather than at people’s doors) has always been something that I really enjoy. People stop, and smile, and enjoy the music, and it restores my faith in humanity a little. It brings to mind…
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Holidays and avocados
Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy most holiday decorations, though as an occupational (or perhaps serious hobby..ial?) hazard, I have a little more trouble with the music. This weekend has held some doozies, however.
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Fated
When I visited the parental house recently, a new laptop case was waiting for me. (My mother loves to thrift-shop as much as I do, or possibly more, and she’ll pick up things and stick them in my old room. It’s a surprise every time I come home!) My old one was slowly losing the…
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Whiny Soup
I had a great time at Orycon! I’m a little worn out, since my job has me working off-site at the moment, rehousing a collection, so there’s more travel time and learning about resources at the new location. But I thought I’d share with you the latest in what is apparently becoming a continuing series…
Got any book recommendations?