3604 words today, total 26554. Halfway there! I'm officially caught up from the weekend and even a little ahead. Excerpt: “We're going to keep having this conversation until you quit that. Stop apologizing. It's all right.” “I'm sorry --” Enis brought her hand to her face and laughed a single, helpless little laugh. Doctor Menga laughed several times for her. “That's better. Relax. We're not...

2321 words today, in a little over two hours, for a total of 4371.  I actually stopped writing in the middle of a fully realized scene so I could start off running again tomorrow. Excerpt 1: "It wasn't the actual sexual abuse that bothered her so much -- slaves were expected to attend to their owner's personal needs, and Enis had to admit that Baradaya took great physical and magical care to ensure...

Football Club de Barcelona beat UD Almeria 5-0: another good game for Barça who started the season with a loss and a draw, but have scored ten goals in their last two games. I am in work again; belgatherial is working but tomorrow is a holiday for all of us. I am adding to the article on my students' project, and thanks to frausensei I have the reference I need to a book by Ann...

I had to work today, and my supposed-to-be-over-at-2:30 day turned into my 6:00 pm end time when the hospital administrators decided to admit an extra 5 patients than they had anticipated this weekend. I'm all for having more patients, but they need to understand that I've actually told people to STAY home on Monday and now there are an additional 9 hours of patient coverage that are up in the air...

Saturday: Slept in a little, had a chocolate croissant & coffee while reading the paper, and a generally lazy morning of some productivity but mostly slacking, which suits me fine.  In the afternoon, we drove down to Temecula and met up with frausensei and her husband at the Balloon & Wine Festival, which was good but a little expensive, all things considered.  I had some awesome street...

This weekend was Jararvellir's 35th Anniversary and May Day Event and it was a most joyful celebration. On Friday, I came home from work later than usual thanks to the previously mentioned issues at work, so I was already a bit behind. Unfortunately, this meant I skipped out of set-up because I would not have arrived before the bulk of the work was done. Luckily, I had given the banners to damej...

Happy Birthday to eithni ! Happy Birthday to aaron_pike ! (Also, thanks to frausensei for the additional reminder.) Note to eithni : we're looking forward to your next visit.

Inspired by frausensei , here is a brief list of my major 2007 milestones: January: Began my internship at the Milwaukee Business Journal, which was a challenging but very crucial learning experience. Also kicked off the last semester of school, ever. February: The thesis freak-outs begin. March: Thesis is almost done, so I use my Spring break to visit dad in Texas and figure out if Austin is a...

Old Town Mexican Cafe -- Old Town, San Diego We went here for dinner last weekend when visiting with frausensei & her husband -- after a full day of walking around & enjoying other culinary treats (Mediterranean food, fudge, mmm!), we still had a little extra room.  In the front of the restaurant, there are women making both flour and corn tortillas on a flat skillet/hot plate... I like...

First of all, I took this picture with my camera phone last week when the fires were still bad -- it's the view of the mountains north of San Bernardino, taken from the parking lot at work.  Not too bad for a camera phone picture, hmm? Today I was feeling photographical -- there are these purple-ish morning glory like flowers climbing the terrace by the pool and I wanted to document them...