Gasp… gasp… gasp…

I just cranked out 5,000 words today and I’m still behind.  Mustn’t stop, mustn’t stop, mustn’t stop…
(Happy Thanksgiving, Americans.  And, following quickly on its heels, Happy Rampant Commercialism Day.  Hope none of you got trampled to death outside of Walmart.  [I slept in and played around all day with my husband and child.  And typed.  [...]

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A Stiff Dose of Reality

I’ve got all sorts of excuses for the lack of communication the last three weeks.  I could mention that Robert had a fish conference at the same time as he  was trying to put in his NSF grant proposal, simultaneously making me a single mother and an edit monkey.  I could mention that Aaron, that [...]

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Noooooooo!

Alas!  Whilst upon the brink of triumph, trouble was brewing underfoot.  In the basement, to be specific.  A pipe eroded and exploded, submerging our crawlspace and my family’s stuff in three feet of water.  (Robert and I rent his parents’ house while they’re down in Juneau and sublet the room to a bunch of savage [...]

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Overpowering Coolness

Guess who got a new laptop?  Moi.  Hubby’s is in the mail, but I got one quicker and cheaper.  Why?  ‘Cause Chris is my new favorite housemate.  Now I  just need to get it all hooked up to the scanner and live happily ever after.  Just thought you all should know so that I have [...]

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Er…

So, I got back from rugby practice feeling pretty beat up.  And feeling like I’ve gone through a meat grinder isn’t very condusive to creativity.  One of my brothers kindly offered to do a guest comic, despite not reading the comic and getting nothing more than a rough description of three characters, and so I happily [...]

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