and then she blabbers about them here.
Coming home from vacation is nicer when you come home to this (click to embiggen):
Here’s the breakdown:
Mooched:
Letters to Karen, by Charlie W. Shedd
Letters to Philip, by Charlie W. Shedd
Priceless Weddings for under $5000, by Kathleen Kennedy
Sent from Phenix & Phenix:
Runaway, by Steve Simpson
Castaway Kid, by R. B. Mitchell
Genuine Men, by Nancy Bruno
The Last Plague, by [...]
I really am! I lose things all the time.
For example, a few months ago I went to my friend N’s birthday dinner party. I managed to fit everything I needed — present, card, novel, metropass, emergency chapstick, etc — into my smallest purse and off I went. Some hours later, home I came.
The next day, [...]
A few weeks ago I received Fatal Voyage in the mail, having sent away for it as part of a promotion by some cereal company. (I can’t remember which cereal company it was, and so I suppose that it didn’t work). I had filled out the form online and then promptly forgotten about the whole [...]
(1) If you wait an extra five days to buy your plane tickets, they will suddenly be $600 more expensive. Don’t do this. So long, easy flight home! It was nice dreaming about you. I’ll be in the car.
(2) When dining at Mary’s Kountry Kitchen, be aware: “Petite Portions” are exactly that. Also, I think [...]
(1) Somewhere in Pennsylvania, I observed the first scarlet leaves of, um, summer.
(2) Went to the Barnes Foundation Museum on Sunday. Saw 181 Renoirs, almost 70 Cézannes, also numerous Matisse paintings, Soutine, Picasso, Rousseau, etc. Renoir I like very much. Matisse I do not like at all. Soutine I like. Rousseau I don’t think was [...]
On Wednesday night I handed in my last paper and had my last class until September.
Last night, I did the last of my work at my second summer job.
Free, free!
Well, free to work more hours at summer job number one, is really what it comes down to. But also free to stop reading boring essays [...]
It’s been all thunderstorms lately, probably one every other day or so. That’s an estimate, of course; it may feel like more than it’s actually been. But the point is: rain, rain, rain, rain, rain. And as previously mentioned, there are few things I find nicer than reading an old book in a warm place [...]
Hey, everyone, remember this contest? Well, it’s over. And there’s a winner.
Carol Ezovski, you have won a copy of Springtime on Mars! I will be emailing you momentarily.
To everyone else, thanks for participating, and better luck next time. And if you’d like some short stories to read — even though you can’t get the giveaway [...]
