To my partner in media crime

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, mamishka!

Huge, huge happy birthday wishes to the Meems, without whom I would not have discovered Great Big Sea, nor known that there do in fact exist movies in which Harrison Ford does not get the girl, nor stayed up till ungodly hours of the morning to commit acts of media binging. LOVE YA, MEEMS!

Ancient LJ catchup, #1

This one is for kriski, in response to a comment she left on my journal ages ago, in regards to crossover between languages. I know I'm horribly behind (sorry about that, Kriski!), but I wanted to bring this one on ahead and answer it, since it has to do with language stuff and that's always interesting to me as a writer. Even if I'm lame about keeping up with my LJ comments sometimes. ;P :)

( Kriski's comment... )

Just wanted to remark on this, Kriski, that improperly used apostrophes are one of my biggest pet peeves in English, too, so I'm very sympathetic to you having that peeve for German usage! Every single time I see someone say "that isn't your's" or "it's tail wagged", for example, that grates on my eyes the same way an out-of-tune note grates on my ears.

Ancient LJ catchup, #2

This one is for watermelonpunch, from whom I have several pending comments. This one is from this thread, in which I'd been ranting against the legislation that a man in Alabama wanted to get passed about banning books with gay characters in them from public libraries down there.

( Watermelonpunch's comment... )

( My answers... )

Exercise, ship party, averted disaster

( Exercise on Wednesday... )

( Ship party and more exercise on Friday... )

( Scam literary agency alert... )

Wednesday miles: 1.1
Friday miles: about 2.0
Miles out of Hobbiton: 184.0
Miles to Rivendell: 274.0
Days without a rejection letter from Luna: 30
Days without a rejection letter from agents: 12