We missed the little black spot on the sun today, but I think we saw something pretty darned near as neat: Henry stands with Olympic Torch bearer Brian Brunton, helping him carry the load. I am SO PLEASED with this photo. I took about six, but this was the only one where we got him looking at the camera–because Jedward was just a few feet up the street, and there were jillions of screaming little girls and Henry thought that was Very Interesting. :)
thinks to do today
– haircut – call about boxes – contract – attempt to finish HCW proposal – package up books – finish BYD proofs – ignore the fact that items 4 & 6 are probably fully contradictory to one another – other things as they occur (eta: not a wildly successful day, then…)
daily life
Apparently I can only manage to post once every five days. Dunno what’s up with that (motherhood, job, birthday weekend? nah). I went for a massage Saturday, and was so tired I nearly fell asleep on the massage table. In fact, the only reason I didn’t was because after a while the sinus pressure from the headrest got too great, so my nose stuffed up and I had to breathe through my mouth…and every time I nearly fell asleep my tongue fell out of my mouth and I did this…
picoreview: Snow White & the Huntsman
Picoreview: Too long by at least half an hour, but to my astonishment, Kristen Stewart was quite good in it. She emoted! And Chris Hemsworth is dreamy. And Charlize Theron is…well, you know. Charlize Theron. Raar. Some of the effects were very pretty, some of the uses of magic were nicely done to explain a couple of things that otherwise made me go o.O, but man, I really wish they’d cut half an hour from it. My advice: don’t see it when you’re already sleepy.
*clears throat*
Happy BIRTHDAY to US! Happy BIRTHDAY to US! Happy BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRTHDAY dear Esmerel, Silkblade, Fahri, Novella, Morgan Freeman, Marilyn Monroe, Superman and MEEEEEEEEEE! Happy BIRTHDAY TO US! For my birthday, I offer you the opportunity to go buy THE OLD RACES: ORIGINS short story collection! (I know, I’m so thoughtful. :)) at Amazon at Barnes & Noble At Smashwords at cemurphy.net (PDF only) Why PDF only at cemurphy.net, you ask? After all, don’t I get basically ALL the money if you buy it direct? Well, yes, I do. But if you…