an epiphany

I had an epiphany in the shower this morning. It’s not a very big epiphany, and it won’t be interesting to anybody except me (well, ok, maybe five people on my flist), but I just like to say things like that on my journal. It makes a person wonder what the hell it is I’m doing in the shower in the mornings. :) Ok, so I’ve been re-reading the AoA story as it’s been coming out in collected form, and while I really don’t think they should’ve collected it in…

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someday…

Someday–about fifteen years from now, when I have time–I’m going to write a series of novels that will look almost nothing, save for the names of the characters, like a game we played once upon a time. It’ll be a Greek tragedy on the GRRM scale, and it will be huge fun and huge work and the prospect of it fills me with glee. It will resolve storylines left unplayed (as I see fit, of course; that’s the trouble of giving one person the reins) and it will go directions…

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note to self:

The whole *point* of doing the thousand drawings project is to *learn* to draw as well as the traced ones come out. Wretched brain. Wretched brain is all happy with the drawing and then suddenly crashes ’cause it’s half cheated and traced and why can’t I get those proportions right WITHOUT tracing it and waaaaaaaaaail! *smacks brain around a bit* Speaking of crashing, does anybody own “Crash” (the Oscar-winning film from this year) on DVD and could snurch me a screenshot? I haven’t been able to find the one I…

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little girls & cats

Ok, you can get decidedly less cute if you ring the doorbell 345987 times in a day asking to rub the cats. I just had to explain to the elder of the two (who is 6, judging from her teeth, which I noticed today as being Significantly Missing) that 1. If we don’t answer the doorbell the first time it’s rung, then we’re not going to, so they don’t need to ring it again, and 2. that I work from home, so if they wish to pet the cats they…

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