Monthly Archives: July 2007

*headdesk* You know that blog post I made awhile ago about identification with one’s characters and whatnot? Well, t’other day, a Digger went up where the local healer asks her weight, and she replies “Two-twenty.” I figured that was a pretty good weight for an anthropomorphic wombat–her height looks to be somewhere around four-to-four-and-a-half feet […]

Today is an excellent day! Today, I paid off the last of my student loans. Hooyah! Mind you, that chunk of monthly cash will probably now go over to paying my own health insurance, but still, it’s nice to get that particular weight off my chest. Back! Back, damn’d loans! With whip and chair and […]

Those of us who are birdwatchers have probably occasionally found ourselves trying to explain the appeal of our hobby to non-birdwatchers, and if you’ve managed to do it successfully, I salute you. The conversation for me always seems to start at “So, you just really like birds?” “Err…” I always say. “Not exactly…” This is […]

It’s a gorgeous day. The sun is shining, the birds are singing, the ambient temperature is exactly 70 and not quite as revoltingly humid as it’ll get later on, I have a painting to work on that is going just wrong enough to be interesting and just right enough to stay interested, and all is […]