I Am Not Tan

Usually, when I come back from a vacation, I’m tan. Not in this case. Of course, maybe next time, I should go to the British Virgin Islands, not the Big Apple. In a snow storm. After packing when the weather forecast said mid sixties and sunny.
On the upside, I now have a totally rocking pair [...]

Geeky Things

First of all, Sailor Boy and I hit Level 24 with our “adorable couple” group on World of Warcraft. We started these two characters, a warrior and a priest, that we play together. They’re draeni, which are these enormous, noble, squid/goat/Klingon/human looking things. So cute. No, really. The female draeni, in particular, are the most [...]

*So* the Drama!

Thanks for your concern, Patrick, but the weather in D.C. this weekend was actually quite lovely. I’ll be spending the biggest chunk of this week in New York City, where the weather also looks in the sunny-ish family, ranging from the 40s to the 60s. Big sigh of relief here. However, owing to the travel, [...]

Yoga schmoga

Yoga class tonight was great. I learned three new poses. This is what happens when you skip two classes; you come back and get to learn a whole bunch of poses all at once. (So much more bang for the time spent in bare feet on a hardwood floor when it’s STILL snowing outside! This [...]

Overextended

I was working on my schedule for the next few months and I almost had a heart attack.
Next week: New York City for family thingWeekend after: New York City for NYPL receptionLast week in March: Boston for the NEC ConferenceMiddle of April: WRW Retreat at Harper’s FerryEarly May: SSG, the Paperback, releasesMid-May: Tampa, Florida, to [...]

NYPL Books for the Teen Age

I just received word that Secret Society Girl has been selected as one of the New York Public Library’s Books for the Teen Age 2007.
“This list, now in its 78th year of publication, selects the best of the previous year’s publishing for teenagers, 12 to 18 years old. All the titles chosen have been [...]

Troubling trends

I’ve been reading a certain genre of romance novel recently (RWA members can guess why.) It’s a subgenre I read a lot of, and it’s one that I enjoy. I enjoyed several of my recent reads. However, I did notice a few characteristics present in every single one of the books I just read, which [...]

The Bookcase Meme

I was tagged by Carrie to provide a detailed commentary about my bookshelves and their contents: “give us a general breakdown of your bookshelf, by number of authors, genre, series, anything you want.”
Ha. Okay. Thing one about my bookshelves is that I need more of them. We have these huge floor to ceiling Ikea jobs, [...]

No TV this Week

Really busy this week. Plus Sailor Boy is on Spring Break, so there’s a bit of an expectation of spending quality time with him as well.
Unfortunately, he’s currently using my computer to watch Heroes so that Julie will also buy him a nice dinner (kidding! kidding!) so I can’t get to my files or my [...]

More TV Blogging

For someone who doesn’t have a TV, I certainly watched a lot of it and talked about it a lot this past week.
No, the show I was speaking of in Monday’s post is not MI5. I’ve actually never even heard of that show. I’m halfway through the fourth disc of the show I am watching, [...]