I think in bullet points now sometimes
Aug. 15th, 2006 10:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rissymonster* Fancy Boy: Still dead. Later this week I should have more time to determine whether he's salvageable.
* Weekend parties: The baby shower and subsequent bbq birthday/building-permit-receiving celebrations (two different parties) went well. We made a ton of cookies for the shower--one was even vegan and wheat-free and pretty darn tasty.
* Book reading: A lovely and talented friend of ours gave a reading from her second book this evening in Alameda, which was nifty. As was getting to hang with her afterwards, which we get to do tomorrow evening as well. Her first book reminds me a bit of George R.R. Martin in terms of the engaging charaters, interactions of class, gender and power, and the "oh, this is not going to end well" factor. For those of you affiliated with a certain MA literary non-profit, take note--she's currently Vineyard-based. Not on the same end of the state as youse, but I'm just saying if you want an intro, let me know.
* Observation:
Alameda : Oakland :: Staten Island : Brooklyn
* Although the suburban similarity to SI sometimes wigs me out, Alameda does however have a bowling alley and the annual Peanut Butter Jam Festival working in its favor. Posters from the latter prompted me to sing "It's peanut butter jelly time" all night long. As our fellow dojo mate was driving us home from the reading and explaining the flash animation phenomenon to Nikki, the 16 year olds in the next car over started grooving along with us. It was a very sweet bonding moment.
* Weekend parties: The baby shower and subsequent bbq birthday/building-permit-receiving celebrations (two different parties) went well. We made a ton of cookies for the shower--one was even vegan and wheat-free and pretty darn tasty.
* Book reading: A lovely and talented friend of ours gave a reading from her second book this evening in Alameda, which was nifty. As was getting to hang with her afterwards, which we get to do tomorrow evening as well. Her first book reminds me a bit of George R.R. Martin in terms of the engaging charaters, interactions of class, gender and power, and the "oh, this is not going to end well" factor. For those of you affiliated with a certain MA literary non-profit, take note--she's currently Vineyard-based. Not on the same end of the state as youse, but I'm just saying if you want an intro, let me know.
* Observation:
Alameda : Oakland :: Staten Island : Brooklyn
* Although the suburban similarity to SI sometimes wigs me out, Alameda does however have a bowling alley and the annual Peanut Butter Jam Festival working in its favor. Posters from the latter prompted me to sing "It's peanut butter jelly time" all night long. As our fellow dojo mate was driving us home from the reading and explaining the flash animation phenomenon to Nikki, the 16 year olds in the next car over started grooving along with us. It was a very sweet bonding moment.
