2016: The Year in Books
I read 43 books this year. It’s not a lot compared to last year’s 71, but it was a full year. Page count: 16,413, or 59% of what I read last year. L...
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2015: The Year in Books
I made it through 71 books this year. It’s not as many as last year, but still highly respectable. Page Count: around 27,128, based on statistics from Lib...
2016: The Year Ahead
As is my end-of-year custom, I am looking at whether I met my goals for 2015 and considering goals for 2016. I like to set goals for the year because they seem ...
Derby Life: Bird Style
I last wrote about roller derby after bird try-outs. Because I’m the kind of woman who leaves you hanging for four months, I am only now coming back to writing ...
Icelandic Update, or Is It Really an Update If I Haven’t Told You Before Now?
Here’s the thing: I decided to start learning Icelandic in January of this year. I had every intention of writing about the process. As even a cursory gla...
Things I’ve Been Meaning to Blog About: Roller Derby
I have been meaning to blog about roller derby for about two months now. Or maybe three months. In any case, this is the blog post about roller derby. Yesterday...
2015: The Year Ahead
This post is a little bit late becuase it took me a while to figure out just what I wanted to say about the upcoming year. I feel like I accomplised a lot in 20...
A Special Request and a Long Rant: Coda
After the response I received to last week’s post, I feel I am obligated to pen some form of update. First, I want to say that my network of friends/acqua...
A Special Request and a Long Rant
On behalf of job-seekers everywhere, I would like to make a request. If someone you know is looking for work and describing to you the ongoing struggle involved...
Sweet Dreams are Made of Monstrous Alien Creatures
I think that I normally have shitty dreams. I don’t know this for certain. I cycle through phases of dream-remembering and dream-forgetting. Perhaps it is...