*all dressed up with somewhere to go! =D
hello my lovely blog readers!!
i turn 37 today!! i love the odd number years,
because i love odd numbers in general. but
i’ve been mooching up the birthday loving all over
the internets rather shamelessly. i joke that i have
Summer Birthday Complex. you know. when you get
your lockers decorated on your [...]
Category Archives: ramblings
neither here nor there
August 29, 2010 – 3:11 pm
a concert at noon
August 18, 2010 – 8:31 pm
i was able to go to a free concert and panel
on chinese music, then and now, at lunchtime
today. i wasn’t quite sure what to expect, but enjoyed
myself so much! i never did learn a musical instrument
and know nothing about music in general, but i’m
always humming and singing (not well, either =) just
like my mom does [...]
fighting the gloom
July 6, 2010 – 11:04 am
it feels like monday.
and the weather has been overcast
for three days. which makes me feel
all bleah and lethargic.
i’m taking solace in my Fury edits.
will be reading the prose aloud. i highly
recommend this to writers. it allows you
to hear things (redundancies, stilted dialogue,
awkward prose) that you normally wouldn’t
notice while simply reading.
i’m also having instant ramen for [...]
leafing through the pages…
June 22, 2010 – 4:42 pm
a stack of books.
dogeared pages.
nose in a book.
creased spine.
the well worn pages of a treasured favorite.
the smell of a new book.
to judge a book by its cover.
to curl up with a book.
to flip the page.
yesterday morning, on a whim, i decided to do
an impromptu twitter and facebook poll asking :
with all the talk about ebooks, [...]
how do you know?
June 16, 2010 – 3:36 pm
i’m in between revisions again and more
than a little obsessed with Fury of the Phoenix.
it’s a fantastic all-consuming a little maddening
feeling. i write in my head constantly, am thinking
of plot and scene and dialogue and character.
and god knows what’s getting lost sometimes
due to The Hole in My Head. but i think i retain most
of it, [...]