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I both want to do work and don’t want to do work.

I am a cat standing in an open door, refusing to go out or come inside.

One of my hobbies is reassembling thrift store plushies into fantastical mixed-up creatures.

I’ve learned a lot about sewing from this. Taking apart the plushies shows me how they were made & then I practice copying those stitches putting them back together in a new form. Continue reading “Learning from Deconstruction”

I have an irrational aversion to using my hearthstone in Warcraft.

See, I remember — vividly — when the cooldown was a whole hour, and there was a decent chance of getting stuck behind a tree in some night elf zone where literally the only way out was to hearth.

So, if you’d just used your hearthstone, and you got stuck behind a tree, that was it. Nothing to do but wait an hour. Literally no other solution. Continue reading “Saving the Hearthstone for Emergencies”

My fiction may not be making the splash I wish it would right now.

But it will be remembered.

Because it’s good, and unusual, and there’s a lot of it. And something will catch, and I won’t stop fighting for it, even if I never see it happen.

The publisher I was hoping to land my sci-fi horror novel with says they’re not publishing things that dark. Given that I’ve had my attempts at writing horror be called “cute” before, this is new for me. It’s also pretty heartbreaking.

I’m trying to take comfort from the fact that this now means I’m probably 20k closer to finishing the sequel, as I no longer need to try to meet that publisher’s word count requirements. I’m much more comfortable working in the 30k – 75k range than trying to get up above 80k. Continue reading “Horror Too Dark”

There’s a new Danica McKellar Christmas movie!!!!

That’s exactly what I need today.

It’s called “Christmas at the Drive-In,” and the first few minutes are exactly what you’d expect. Continue reading “More Mediocre Christmas Movies”

The farther along I get in Dracula, the more I feel like it’s a crime how the 1992 movie wasted Winona Rider in a role she actually would have been brilliant at if it had been adapted better.

I’d really like to see an adaptation with that cast… but better. Continue reading “Many Scattered Thoughts on Stargate, Warcraft, and Stargate”

Achievement unlocked: ten max level characters in World of Warcraft!

I know they won’t be max level anymore come Tuesday, but for now, I have ten max level characters — warlock, hunter, druid, rogue, shaman, demon hunter, priest, mage, evoker, death knight. Continue reading “Ten Max Level Characters”

It’s mediocre Christmas movie season!

Starting off with “A Christmas Movie Christmas,” and it’s better than average! (If you haven’t watched a bunch of these things, you may not know where “average” falls.) Continue reading “A Christmas Movie Christmas & The March Sisters at Christmas”

Daniel and I were discussing maybe taking the kids on a trip to Hawaii, and the 9-year-old announced: “Why would you take me there? They don’t have internet!”

The kid course corrected pretty quickly, admitting they probably have internet, in response to our baffled expressions. Continue reading “Tidbits of Fiction, Reality, and the Space In-Between”