The thing I love about Wednesdays at my work is that nearly everyone goes home early. Which means that they get out of my way and I can actually get stuff done. When kids aren’t doing silly things like wandering off with their friends after begging their grandmothers to drop everything and come pick them […]
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Today was rough. I won’t complain, but I will say I chose the wrong day to wear heels to work. And to wear a blouse that was just fine in air-conditioning, but then on an afternoon of record-breaking heat having to drive across town with no AC… Anyway. I live. It is over. Tomorrow will
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From Knight Errant, a poker game about to go seriously wrong. I love this scene. 😀 (Knight Errant is in Taro’s POV. His Faithful Squire is in Rafe’s, in case you’re confused by recent Six Sentence posts.) Captain Wallis looked at her cards, looked at me. Looked at her cards. Looked at my pile. Looked
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The first time I heard the term “horse-poor” I was watching John Wayne in The Sons of Katie Elder. The context made the meaning immediately clear, and I loved the term. Having grown up around horses, I knew just how expensive–and how delightful–they could be. I grew up horse-poor, and I’m grateful. No, we never
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Still here! I think. Yes, it’s the weekend. But sometimes the weekend is only enough to get done the stuff you didn’t do all week, and that’s been my experience these last two days. (Aside from all the napping, anyway. And the didn’t-turn-out-well escape-to-write attempt yesterday.) Anyway. Here. Wrote some. Cleaned house. Did grocery shopping.
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To all the kind people who know that the person answering the phone is pretty much never the one who had the authority to mess up your life in whatever way it has been messed up of late–thanks. I’m sorry it happened, and I’m so grateful you know I’m not the one who did it
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Go here to read more about it. I just needed to say it again. South Atlantic Anomaly. 🙂 This belt of antimatter is small, and any threat it poses to those who pass through the anomaly is dwarfed by all the other things that make the region dangerous.
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