I’m a Magpie
And here I always thought I was a clone of my mother.
MyHeritage: Family trees – Genealogy – Celebs – Collage – Morph
That you can download all of Kelly Link’s Stranger than Fiction under a creative commons license? ‘Cause, yeah. You can.
I really haven’t left the house all day, except to go to Walgreens (and then take the long way home, to avoid the agressive panhandly lady), and to go meet Brian (and then I bought sequins! Because that’s what you do when you’re out in the world and high on Dayquil).
I can’t tell you what I did today, because the 3.5% of it that wasn’t spent snuffling on a coffee shop sofa with my plague dog boyfriend was filled with super secret, crafty projects. Super secret crafty Christmas projects. Secret!
Lately I’ve been coming to terms with the fact that for all my free-wheeling, easy-going,live in San Francisco and own nothing more formal than office casual (well except for my prom dress collection) lifestyle, I’m really a bit of an uptight perfectionist. This comes out especially when I’m cooking — every dish must be opulent, [...]
My cousin Molly, her boyfriend, Steve, and I have been talking about doing a pub quiz one of these days. They’re away for Thanksgiving this week, but once they get back, ooh, it’s *so* on!
I’ve been researching our pub quiz options. Because really, what else am I going to do with my time? Stuff a [...]
Yeah, so I didn’t blog before midnight. But I saw Beowulf in 3-D, so, uh… yeah.
The movie left me with mixed feelings. On the one hand, jeez that was gory — and did we really need all the blood and spears and bile in our face (I mean that literally — this was, after all, [...]
The End of DC Current in NYC
“Despite the clear advantage of alternating current — it can be transmitted long distances far more economically than direct current — direct current has taken decades to phase out of Manhattan because the early backbone of New York’s electricity grid was built by Mr. Edison’s company, which had [...]
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I'm a librarian. Special skills include dog charming, brochure writing, slapdash cooking and long-winded nattering. I also enjoy watching the sunset's reflection in the tall buildings downtown.
For a while there, I taught classes on Classical literature, philosophy, and the history of religion at New College of California. I have an MA and an MFA in Writing, and live on a boat in Sausalito, CA.