Thanksgiving on Friday night (pushed to Friday because Thursday’s no good for anyone) was a BLAST! Yes, we sat 14 people around a table built for 8; yes, I forgot to make the green bean casserole (yikes!) and yes, there was enough bread (thanks @claireimogen) to feed a small army. But it was good....
News of the upcoming impending ‘reboot’* of Buffy The Vampire Slayer enrages all fans of Joss Whedon. (Even goddamn E! is asking if it’s ‘The Worst Idea Ever‘) For good reason, actually. Whedon worked hard to make Buffy what it has become using wit, intellect (in a tv/film?! shocker!), and conversational savvy. Despite the...
In a battle between The Muse and Procrastination, the winner is Procrastination (and my kitchen). A whole Saturday to myself yesterday, and, as per normal, I awoke with an eagerness to start the day. Yes, I’m going to work on my novel for NaNoWriMo all day long; no interruptions, no telly, no surfing the...
I once wrote a short story; a thriller about a girl who moved into an old house, which turned out to be haunted. It was semi-autobiographical; I had just moved into a flat by myself, in a really old building and its creaks and noises would scare me awake at night, until I finally...
The holidays are coming up soon, and as much as it pains me to hear Christmas Jingles being played already, I am finding venti-sized cups of Christmas flavoured coffees to be very comforting. My first order of business, however, is Thanksgiving. When I moved here, it seemed wrong to me not to have any...
I had a best friend when I was in school, and we were inseparable. At about 11 or 12 years old, we were peas in a pod (or as Forrest would say, ‘peas and carrots’). We spent too much money on junk food and teen magazines, cooing over our crushes or who was dating...
So, like many other bloggers out there, I will be participating in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) for the next 30 or so days, so you can expect sparse and sporadic updates. Oh wait…you already get sparse and sporadic updates. I guess I have an excuse now. In any case, I’m hoping to have...
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