Joyous Solstice

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Enjoy your summer.
Yes, I know I’m a few hours late. I was helping my parents get ready for a neighborhood garage sale. Fun!
Seriously, though, tomorrow I’m hitting Missouri Bakery (which you’d have to look up as Missouri Baking Co.) and falling in love with their strawberry tarts and apple cream cheese tarts. I love summer, heat and humidity and all.

cloudy

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The title describes the day as well as the picture. Those are my del.icio.us tags. Get your own pretty tag cloud from your del.icio.us tags or your own text at http://wordle.net/create 🙂 By way of Bear’s LJ.
Hope we get to play tonight. This is, of course, the only night with predicted rain. Lovely.

Milestone

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This was a nice letter to find in my work mailbox…

“Dear Jennifer:
Congratulations! You have reached a milestone in your career with Washington University School of Medicine. It is with sincere appreciation for your 5 years of continued service and dedication that I write to recognize your efforts…”

Five years. Don’t they go by in a blink.*
Only two years until my kids can go to WU for free, haha. Hopefully in two years I’ll have a book or two with an agent…
*name that movie 😉

Creation

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No matter what your field–science, engineering, the creative arts, cocktail making–ideas are in the air for the grabbing. All you have to do is the hard part:
Turn them into something real.

From Justine Larbalestier’s blog.

Celebrate (lots)

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This is a big day.
Happy Anniversary to my parents. I’m so proud of you for staying together and staying in love. <3 <3 <3
Happy Birthday to Kate and Gordon! 🙂 *party*
And this website turns six. Six years I’ve been doing this. Six years of very infrequent blogging and not so often with the layout changes…
I really should have gotten a new layout up. I’ve got one almost ready, but I’ve been a bit stymied by the changes MT4 made to their default code, so it’s…not…quite…there yet. Soon.
Still writing, still reading, still dreaming. Have a great day, folks.

So say we all

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In the category of Jen catching on late to things is watching Battlestar Galactica. bsg.jpg
The main reason I didn’t see it before now is that it’s on cable, which I don’t have at the apartment. Yes, I could have theoretically seen it at my parents’ place (even saw the beginnings of a few of the 3rd season eps, when they aired after the short-lived The Dresden Files on SciFi last year) but a) my parents aren’t really into scifi and b) I didn’t want to start in the middle. The show sounded intriguing (even though I’m not all that into scifi myself) and most of the people who did like it told me I would enjoy it. Well, they were right, of course.
Thanks to Mike I’ve gotten to see the first season and a few eps of season 2, while trying to forget what I’ve seen of the 4th season (without really forgetting it, or the next week’s ep won’t make sense). So yes, it’s a good show, lots of character development, politics, action, romance, mythology…and it’s not always “shoot the ship! big splody! hyperspace jumps!” which, I’ll admit, is my stereotype of scifi stuff. It’s one of the reasons I don’t read SF. There has to be good character development and the story has to be interesting. I don’t care how many rooms are on the ship. But I do care about what’s going on in the rooms (not that way! mind out of the gutter!), and BSG makes me care.
Well done, colonists. Here’s to the final season. Yeah, yeah, I know I’m late. Irony is my life.
Another thing that makes me happy: Moonlight is back for a few episodes. Friday nights will be happy for Jen.
And we had an aftershock last night, from that earthquake last week, weird. At least I knew what it was this time.