A rare current-events post.

First, I have to apologize for the lack of a blog post on Wednesday. It’s been a bit of a hectic week in the Bookewyrme household. I remembered approximately Thursday evening as I was headed to bed that I hadn’t put anything up here. Hopefully it won’t happen again, though.

I don’t usually post about current events on this blog. My reasons are many and varied, but primarily by the time I post, whatever has happened usually has been covered exhaustively by other blogs and websites already. However, it isn’t often that I get to watch history occurring, especially history stemming from the place I’ve spent so much of my life studying and loving.
continue reading "New Beginnings in Egypt"

Too bad he didn’t have one.

If you pay any attention to my “Currently Reading” status at the bottom of each post, you may have noticed a succession of Shakespearean plays lately. I recently acquired (read: shamelessly stole from my cousin) my late grandmother’s Complete Works (edited by G. B. Harrison) and have been reading through several of the plays that I haven’t read yet. However, I’ve also been reading about the plays themselves, when they were published and what their first printing looked like etc, which is even more interesting than the plays themselves sometimes.
continue reading "Even Shakespeare Needed an Editor"

Another time-suck, in the theme of last Wednesday’s post.

There is a game called World of Warcraft, an MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game). You’ve probably at least heard of it, and there’s a decent chance you’ve played it at one time or another. I have played it off and on for about five years and have always been primarily interested in the RPG part of it. I’ve mentioned elsewhere that part of my rekindled interest in writing stemmed from creating stories and characters for the game. I stopped playing about a year ago because I began to write seriously and WoW can be a bit of a time-suck. By “a bit” I mean it will take over your life if you let it. However, the latest expansion dragged me back.
continue reading "World of Warcraft Stories"

That song always makes me think of high school.

Everyone has their weakness, the thing that keeps them from really concentrating or doing their best. That thing they simply can’t resist, no matter how hard they try. Their kryptonite, if you will. For me, it’s television. Whenever there is a tv on, I can’t concentrate on even a simple conversation, nevermind something like reading or writing or even playing a mindless game usually. Some shows are worse than others. The absolute worst for me is Scrubs. I’m not sure what it is about that show. I’ve seen every episode about half a dozen times, and yet, when it is on I can’t stop watching it. I even have difficulty stopping if there’s something incredibly important going on. Like, as a completely random example, needing to leave for work.
continue reading "My Kryptonite"

Too much of a good thing is still too much.

My friend Geoffrey did a post a few weeks ago about networking for the busy writer. How to spend a little bit of time optimizing SEO and networking to other blogs and such without it taking over your life. All good solid advice, most of which I already knew, though the reinforcement on some of it didn’t hurt. In any case, well worth the read.
continue reading "Network Overload"

Current pictures of Holly.

Holly has been growing again. She now weighs 14.6 pounds, which is right on target for her weight-gain goals. She also is getting taller, and stronger, and prettier. I’d say she’s getting smarter too, but she was already smart as a whip. Anyway, some current pictures from this weekend of her.
continue reading "Holly in Pictures"