Hey, shugenja and wintersweet (and anyone else who knows anything about Japanese). The Eldest is continuing to look up Japanese words and "the alphabet" (today on the way home he was telling me about characters for certain sounds / combinations). I was thinking about getting him something to facilitate his learning. Can you suggest any books / dvds / etc. for beginners? (My library...

Must... Obey... sinderellah ... FIRST: If you've been tagged, you must write your answers in your own LJ and replace any question that you dislike with a new, original question. SECOND: Tag eight sexy people. Don't refuse to do that like a pansy. Listen up! You are tagged! You must meme! Bwa-ha-ha-ha!!! dollykat blowdry dustbunnies mishakitty78 ...

Good morning, LiveJournal! I have home internet now. I am using Earthlink no longer and no more ! Anyone who tries to contact me via any of my old Earthlink addresses will get bounced mail. I doubt, however, that few people would have those in their address books, as I've been using Yahoo exclusively for over a year. (If you do not know my Y!mail [Really? o.O] then you can probably comment here...

wintersweet asks : Should Vertical look into licensing some classic shoujo manga they might have an opportunity to license? @Vertical_Ed on Twitter is looking for yeas or nays (NOT recommendations, mind you) and isn't getting many yeas. I think that's because the shoujo manga fanatics are mostly over here, not on Twitter. So either post here and I'll send him a link later or go follow...

Well, I've completed step one for creating a website. I've decided on which hosting I'm going to go with and have bought the hosting for one year (I didn't want to be locked into a longer contract until I was sure that this was where I wanted to be). I've decided to go with www.dreamhost.com . Of all the sites I looked at this one had the cleanest and most straightforward design to its pages. It...

Alright, so I'm a secret lurker on quite a few online author's livejournal accounts... especially Te's, brown_betty's, and rubynye's. And now I must share some of the genius that is brown_betty's "let's talk about books" conversational meme. Seriously- just read the first two pages of comments. I swear it's worthy. I got to- poisonivory 2009-03-24 01:01 am UTC ( link...

Icon meme via wintersweet . 1. Reply to this post, and I will pick six of your icons. 2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose. 3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts. 4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee. 1. WHY I HAVE IT: Death is one of my favorite characters in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman series, and when...

wintersweet advises that, as April Fool's Day is almost upon us, we should not believe everything we read. I would also add that you might as well not read anything you'd believe, either.

This year, Andrea has decided that she is going to refer to the pern track as 'the pernography track,' and those attendees as pernographers. Since I corrected her about the dragons on their shoulders--they're fire lizards, duh--she is calling me a pernographer as well. (I have been very very close to obsessing--like fanfic, mary sue, whole nine-yards over serieses twice--first with Pern, then...

So the long and the short of my studies is that I will defer the start up date. Much as I would love to start soon and finish soon, I think that I have too much going on. Not to mention the money, my lovely 's MA, the residency application, new areas to study, the preparation of courses, and Mr Chocolate 's visit... It was a very busy day, but I got to the end and performed in lectures...