Monthly Archives: March 2010

Mar
21

Worldbuilding & Procrastination

Posted in craft, revisions, writing | 3 Comments
I’m procrastinating on my revisions tonight, although given this is the first amount of time I’ve felt almost human in the last 48 hours, I’m willing to give myself a bit of a pass. And really, there’s only so much of lying around in one’s own filth that I can take, so eventually I managed to haul my sorry carcass into the shower and that helped. (And honestly, I slept until noon yesterday, got up for an hour to find something to eat and then went back to bed. NyQuil is my friend. Mr Myn was good enough to take the day off from work and escaped somewhere with the children for most of the afternoon, and for that I am utterly grateful.) Sadly, my head seems to be waking up quite nicely, although I’m still feeling pretty weak overall. You wouldn’t think something as simple as snot would be… Read more
Mar
20

Keep that Appealing Female Daintiness, Yo.

Posted in random, wtf | 5 Comments
Crawling out of bed long enough to post a little Saturday Night WTFkery, for your viewing pleasure.  And now, I’m crawling back in to bed. Hopefully tomorrow I’ll be coherent enough to actually write something.… Read more
Mar
19

When Hell is Full…

Posted in zombie apocalypse | 5 Comments
…the dead shall walk the earth. I think the only reason I bothered to brush my hair this morning was so that people didn’t think the zombie apocalypse had started. (And I’m willing to take the blame for a lot of things, but the Rapture? Not so much.) Yeah. As soon as I’m done with my work meeting, I’m going back home and crawling into bed to die.… Read more
Mar
18

Random Bitching Put Into Perspective

Posted in cancer, random | 11 Comments
I’m working from home today. Partially because I have the beginnings of a nasty cold, but also so I could take my car to the Nissan dealer to get it looked at. On Saturday I drove through what I thought was a puddle – but it turned out to be the mother of all potholes. Since that point, I noticed when I accelerated, the engine was making a bit more of growl than normal. I figured I’d done something to the muffler, and sure enough, Nissan called me this afternoon and told me the flange that connects to the muffler to the tailpipe (the big long one that connects the muffler to the catalytic converter) underneath had rusted out and basically had a big hole in it. But of course it’s all one piece. So Nissan’s solution was to replace the muffler and the tailpipe for the low, low price… Read more
Mar
17

St. Patrick’s Day

Posted in ireland, waterboys | 3 Comments
Being mostly Irish, I actually have a bit of fondness for the holiday. Not so much for the drinking aspect, but more on a “connection: with my roots” kind of thing. I was actually in Galway about 15 years ago during St. Patrick’s Day. Definitely a different vibe than the States, mostly because it’s more of a religious holiday there. There was a very tiny parade and then people went to church and that was about it. I can’t really make a statement about people hitting the pubs early, because I think there were people in the pubs by 10 or 11 am nursing a Guinness every day I was there (both times!). In fact, the only thing different was when we hit the pubs that night,  the bartenders traced shamrocks into foam on the tops of the pints. Good music everywhere, though. 🙂 And as much as I love… Read more