by Mel | Mar 17, 2008 | Life, Random thoughts
Today is my official writing day off. Just as well because I am mostly brain dead from the heat. So I have no metrics but I do have this – Terry Pratchett has donated $1 million to Alzheimers research and there’s a campaign for the fans to match his...
by Mel | Feb 14, 2008 | Life
I have been awol and I blame Mercury and it’s annoying retrogradiness. I wish the damned planet would just face the right way all the time. There have been suicidal computer monitors and parking tickets and sickness and broken-into cars. I am basically cranky and not...
by Mel | Dec 20, 2007 | Uncategorized
I know we NEED the rain. I know we’re having a drought. But we do not need several weeks rain in several hours and I do NOT need soggy from underneath carpets. Just when I was all happy to be finally finished work and on holiday, I drive home (which took forever...
by Mel | Sep 8, 2007 | Uncategorized
>Madeleine L’Engle has passed away. I adored A Wrinkle in Time when I read it as a kid (and indeed through many re-readings). Sadness. Vale Madeleine, I hope whatever is on the other side of your wrinkle in time is wonderful.
by Mel | Aug 26, 2007 | Uncategorized
Yesterday was a beautiful sunny spring (though technically it’s still winter) day. The kind that fills you with righteous spring cleaning fever (because apparently what happens when you have flu for a week and then spend the next week with no energy at night...