I might be able to pull this out.  A little.

I may have to drop out of this my self-imposed goals.  There will certainly be no words today.  I will be lucky if I can leave here with my work finished, and even luckier if I do not have to come back after class and work until the small hours.

I had a fairly productive morning and I haven't even gone to work yet. I read a story, started writing a story, and did some dishes. Usually I just read and drink coffee. I would do some more dishes but I have to get ready for work now. I wish I could afford to take the day off but such is the way of those that live below the poverty line.

Since I needed a new author pic, and since I was in a play this weekend and actually had makeup on, I asked Martin to shoot me in the living room.  He was happy he could light it entirely with antique lamps:



Also, I am now blonde.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present agent, editor, and fan Sharyn November, as Wonder Woman.

Charles Tan, just one of the most kickass fans working the web today, has an interview with me posted over at his website, Bibliophile Stalker.  We talk about writing, photography, web design, and editing Escape Pod.

There’s one point where I sound like I say that I’m religious, but I should clarify, what I meant is, even if you’re not religious like I am not religious.  That will probably be the last interview or public-appearance-like activity I do for a really long time, but I’m happy with how it turned out mostly.

Originally published at JeremiahTolbert.com. You can comment here or there.

Today is the last day to submit poetry for the special winter editions of Goblin Fruit and Mythic Delirium.

pie: craved
pie: made.

2 more photos on flickr - the before of filling and the after of a pie slice. We ate it warm so the pie slices look more like pile-o-apples, but yum.

I have eaten pie for every meal since it was made, so it is almost gone. ::wanders off to tackle pie for breakfast::

Here are 3 solid short films by Andrew Huang for a Monday morning.

Listed among Creativity Magazine’s Top 25 “Directors to Watch” in 2008, Andrew Huang’s work has been increasingly recognized by his trademark combination of live action, animation and visual effects.

His latest is RIFT:

Doll Face:

The Gloaming:

Enjoy.

Originally published at Derek Molata Online. You can comment here or there.

I adore the 2012 hype, the whole end of the world, Mayan Calendar bologna. As for the movie, I'm actually really excited to see it just for the special effects which look awesome. I don't care if it's not an 'intellectual' movie and I don't care if the plot sucks or the character sucks. It's always fun to watch a movie where everything gets destroyed. It looks like so much fun. It releases on my birthday, maybe I'll take everyone out to it. That'ld be super cool.

Okay, someone asked for cats, and there’s just no way I can pass up an excuse to post more pictures of my boys. Cairo and Oslo have been keeping me company during my post-WFC cold, and, as always, are a constant source of joy.

First up, one of Oslo’s most interesting sleep positions. Yes, he was actually asleep like this:

From Oslo

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Originally published at jennreese.com. You can comment here or there.

Happy birthday, Kelly!

Hope to see you next year, either at AdAstra (if I can swing that) or at World Fantasy.

The more I look at this photo, the more it disturbs me.

I'm going to start on a sleeve of tattoos. It'll have a nice, flowing feel with colors that compliment each other and carefully chosen images. One of these images is going to be Star Wars themes but for every million Star Wars tattoo there is only one good one. Gotta choose wisely.

I also want three Boos from Mario Brothers. I imaged googled Boos and, along with some porn?, found a crochet pattern!

http://wolfdreamer-oth.blogspot.com/2009/08/king-boo.html

Hells yeah

Reaching the Animal Mind: Clicker Training and What It Teaches Us About All Animals
by Karen Pryor

Interesting view of the scope of clicker training and TAGteaching as a technology, including a history of how Karen Pryor developed it, and the wide range of uses it can be put to, along with information on the neurological basis for how and why it works. Plus brilliant use of supplemental web information.

ETA: Puccini and I have done some basic clicker training, so when he heard the clicks from supplemental videos, he started offering "tap-tap". Armed with a better understanding of how to use cues, I was able to get him to stop pre-preemptively tapping and only tap on cue: He learned almost immediately that in order to get me to cue him to tap (so that he could then tap and get a treat), he had to stop tapping first. It was really very cool.

Originally posted to http://batwrangler.dreamwidth.org/ -- comments welcome wherever you are reading this.

Tea Time for the Traditionally Built (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 10)
by Alexander McCall Smith

Another pleasant entry in the series.

Originally posted to http://batwrangler.dreamwidth.org/ -- comments welcome wherever you are reading this.

The Magician (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel)
by Michael Scott

Book Two. Even though I've long outgrown any attraction "chosen ones with pure silver and gold auras" might have had (and moved on to finding the conceit annoying) there's enough interesting stuff going on here (and the bonus implication that the driving prophecy originally put forward might not actually be reliable information) to counterbalance the stuff I don't like.

Originally posted to http://batwrangler.dreamwidth.org/ -- comments welcome wherever you are reading this.

Portuguese Irregular Verbs (Von Igelfeld 1)
by Alexander McCall Smith

Humurous series of stories about the old-fashioned, class conscious, slightly oblivious philogist Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld.

Originally posted to http://batwrangler.dreamwidth.org/ -- comments welcome wherever you are reading this.

No words today, not yet, anyway.  Not sure there will be.