The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by TexAnne:

Paul: I have recently become fond of congee, an Asian rice pudding. I use jasmine rice, simmered with a big knob of ginger in my crockpot. My favorite toppings, depending on my humour, are a fried egg, a spoonful of jam, or sea salt and black pepper. (Which is why I don't season it as it's cooking.)

Earl, 82: Let me guess. The tagline for that one is "Whine loudly and carry a big lipstick."

Am I the only person who keeps reading this post title as "Uncleftish Rogue promo"? (Yes.) (I heard that, Serge.)

The last line of Marilee's linked WaPo article: people of goodwill ought to be able to find a way to arrange the law and the contracting to satisfy fairness without offending church principles.

Fascinating how "fairness" and "church principles" are opposed there. I wonder if it was intentional.

Laramie, 33: If they're not going to put "Harlequin" on their vanity-press books, why are they calling it "Harlequin Horizons"? I don't think they're being truthful.

Buffy : vampire :: RWA : vanity presses.

Oh wait. Vanity presses are vampires.

Cancer-screening eggcorn, found in the wild: "mama grams."

Oh yes, Caroline. Also my ability to sleep through the night and to enjoy weekends and vacations. Life post-hooding is absolutely worth it: you will have accomplished something very, very hard, and it will be yours forever. I'm not saying it'll be the hardest thing you'll ever do, but once you're done, you'll be able to say, "I did that, so I can do this."

*\o/*

(Telling grad students about your hard-won experience never gets old, either. "No shit, there I was...")

Caroline, 63: Ah yes, that is called burnout. My focus came back almost immediately after I turned the damn thing in. And I can heartily endorse OtterB's suggestion--the Mule Puke Rule is just an amusingly-named variant.

Caroline, I'm so glad you asked! I finished my dissertation by dint of absolute adherence to the Mule Puke Rule. You *have* to write two new pages per day. After that, you may write more, or revise yesterday's mule puke, or go to the park and stare at the ducks. (I supplemented this with the Hot Chocolate Rule: one cup per page. Since I was living on rice and beans otherwise, I didn't gain too much weight. YHealthMV.) When you get to the revision stage, you have to revise two pages per day. You may have one day off per week. Sleep and food are sacrosanct.

And here is some cheerleading to speed you on your way: *\o/* CAROLINE CAROLINE RAH RAH RAH! And a favorite sfnal quote: "If I can do it, you can do it."

Huh. I guess I could see Metropolis being shiny happy Uptown, at that.

But "Knickerbocker" is what "Knicks" is short for. Gotham is NYC, Metropolis is Boston. (Daily Planet = Boston Globe.)

I'm with PJ. If a religious group accepts tax money, they should follow the taxing entity's rules for its disbursement. Otherwise they're using public money for their own religious purposes.

Praying.

Keith, 697: I didn't think it would be that obvious. Thanks.

John, 692: *I* don't get the joke! What is it?

Earl, 159: Last night, Rikibeth and I invented Baroquepunk. So probably not. (I'm quite looking forward to Hellenopunk as well.)

Nerdycellist, I'll trade you nibs for your snail address. Check your LJ messages.

Bruce, I have no idea what Ellison line you're talking about, nor why ROT13 bothers you all of a sudden. (It's been local practice for at least the last two Harry Potter books--I know this because I got disemvoweled for a spoiler just before ROT13 came into common use.) If Leetkey doesn't work for you, try this site. Cutting and pasting can be a pain, but it's really much more pleasant for the rest of us.

xeger, Bruce: This is why I prefer traction trebuchets. If it's good enough for Simon de Montfort....

Comment statistics for TexAnne on the Making Light blog

Total: 1426 comments. View all these comments on a single page. (May take quite a while to load.)