I’ve just had a chat conversation with Breic, who is just a little over four years old: Rosie: Mr. Breic is sitting on my lap now. Catie: Hello Mr. Breic! Rosie: hi Rosie: That was Breic! Catie: Wow! A very typing Breic! Breic: yeah Catie: How is Mr. Breic today? Did you have a good time playing outside? Breic: yeah Catie: And did you have a yummy dinner? Breic: yeah Catie: I’m glad to hear that. :) Breic: how are you Catie: I’m very good, thank you! Breic: good Catie:…
P-Con IV report!
What a fantastic weekend. :) We got up to Dublin Friday night, found some dinner somewhere (oh, at Elephant & Castle), then headed over to the hotel to see who was about. Quite a lot of people were about, in fact, though and were on their way out, so we only spoke to them for about two seconds (that seems to be a recurring theme, somehow). However, in those two seconds, Pádraig volunteered me for the 10am “Just A Minute” quiz, because was coming in later than expected. (He’s very…
off for the weekend
Ted and I are going up to Dublin for PCon this weekend. I don’t even know if we’re bringing the laptop, much less whether we’ll have net access, so there may be radio silence til sometime Monday afternoon. I *am* bringing Gail Dayton‘s ETERNAL ROSE, 3rd book in her One Rose trilogy, which I get to read months ahead of schedule ’cause she asked me to blurb it. Ahahaha. Sometimes being a writer is very cool. :) I’ve *really* enjoyed the first two books in the series, and am rillyrilly…
Beauty and the Beast picoreview
It’s late, so I’m intending this to be only a very brief review of Beauty and the Beast, although I have a great deal to say about it and may get carried away. The very short version is, while I’m glad I went, it was an adequate performance of largely bad material, and as far as staging it is concerned, I would have done it *entirely* differently, just about from top to bottom. I think it suffered badly in comparison to the stage version of The Lion King, which is…
’cause jess asked nicely
gakked from : If you’re on my friends list, I want to know 34 things about you. I don’t care if we never talk, never liked each other, or if we already know everything about each other. Short and sweet is fine… I just wanna know you better! Thanks! =) 1. Can you cook? 2. What was your dream growing up? 3. What talent do you wish you had? 4. Favorite place? 5. Favorite vegetable? 6. What was the last book you read? 7. What zodiac sign are you? 8.…