Well, I'd like to take a second and talk about my latest piece, "There was a point". I had a horrible nightmare in which I replayed a portion of my abuse, except in the nightmare I played both parts - the abuser and the abused. After I woke shaking and crying, I was left with the story, which took about 5 minutes to write. Just goes to show something beautiful can come out of pain, yes?

Keep Wren Phoenix in your thoughts and prayers. She is awaiting news about her arm and it doesn't sound very good. I know she has had her ups and downs lately. I am really hoping that she does get some good news because she really deserves it.

Oops... I said I was going to ave a 300 Rains chapter ready for Sunday and here it is Friday and no Chapter. Well, life and school has been crazy and the edits have not been really high on my list of tasks. I fully intend to get to it and I will post it as soon as it is done regardless of the day.

Sorry. Mea Culpa.

Our very own author, Cyclist, blogged the other day about a Very Important Programme* on the subject of intersex births that aired on the BBC.

Hey all!

Just wanted to let you know what's been holding up chapter 24 of Becoming Robin Book Three. Well, the short answer is, I have a new website, http://www.robinverse.info in preparation for launching the Robinverse as an actual universe!

If things continue as they normally do, then I should post episode 1500 on around Sunday. I'm pleased to see that I still get 6-700 reads per episode, not as many as some stories or some authors, but I suspect I get as many Kudos as most, and rightly or wrongly assume my cadre of readers enjoy my output.

I assume those readers want me to continue turning out tales of Cathy and her family for a bit longer, and also that Erin is prepared to have me clogging up her servers with my ponderous, prosaic and precipitous prolixity for a persistent period.

Are my assumptions correct?

I seem to be pretty much good to go. My vision in the eye that had the cataract is now 20/20. After careful testing by my doctors, I have no further eye issues in that eye at all. No macular issues, etc.

(Another title which is a line from Fiction, the song has especial meaning to me right now, which I think you can imagine why: http://www.kovideo.net/fiction-lyrics-yuki-kajiura-810763.html)

So I talked to the other fish yesterday. Remember, my sister just older than I and myself were called Fish in high school? Because of the massive amounts of water we'd both drink.

Anyways, I'm not sure why I did it, in retrospect I probably should have waited until after the family meeting and just hoped if things went south no one beat me to it.

Hi all. If anyone here read my story, Unfinished Business, and balked at the idea of a Teen TS model becoming the "it" girl in fashion... It seems that reality has caught up with fiction!
This is fantastic, and she is gorgeous!!
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/genderless-worlds-popular-mal...

Ciao!
Brianna

Today's Wall Street Journal had an article with the headline "Ye Olde Menu: Dormouse, Anyone?" in the Personal Journal section. The article was about a "trend-in-the-making" of finding recipes from old to ancient sources to spice up menus. The article does state "One recipe he won't bother to explore: Stuffed Dormouse."

A subscription is required to read the article online.

Well, yesterday while I had the day off, I went back over my blog here, and its hard to believe how much has changed for me from the beginning. Then, I was still struggling with accepting myself as a woman inside, still hoping somehow I could be the male person everyone wanted me to be. And even as I started to accept myself internally, I struggled with feeling like there was nothing I could do - no way I could pass dressed as a woman, much less begin a transition, and yet here I am, on my way, able to go out unafraid, accepted at work, and even started hormones.

Hi everyone! I have a new story up at StarDust. As usual, I'll leave it there for about a week before bringing it to BCTS. It's named 'No Man's Hand.'

Have all you high fantasy fans out there ever wondered about other explanations when it was you read that the Witch-king, demon or whatever the baddie is would not fall "by the hand of man?" I have.

Enjoy!
Hugs!
Grover

I am revising a part of Through the years: Tracy emerging part 15.

The more I read it, the more I realized I added stuff and meant to add a bit more before I sent it off to be edited, but I totally forgot to add it. It's in the part at Brooke's house. I make several comments to Tracy looking over, but forgot to finish what I had planned for that.

So I shall edit it to make it whole, plus change a bit in another post of reflect the change. And also, the rating is going up too

I ran across a phrase today I had never heard and it inspired a story idea. It's just that I don't think I'm the right person to write this story and besides, I already have too many things to do and write now. So, I thought I would just throw it out here and see if anyone wanted to do something with it.

The big thing holding me up in terms of several other stories is near the end of the first draft. I have three chapters left, maybe more, but the end is right there. I can finish that fairly soon and that will be great. Then I can write other stuff as I edit that, which will let me feel like I am back to writing again. Whee!

I had a bit of a funny moment at work yesterday. I was walking down the main aisle, and I could hear someone bringing a pallet behind me. I glanced behind, and saw one of my co-workers, and for some reason I thought, "Is he looking at my butt?" I had to restrain myself from adding a little extra wiggle to my walk, and I don't know why I felt like that.

Just Released... the first trailer for May 2012's The Avengers movie:
The Avengers

Tony Stark: "Dr. Banner, your work is unparalleled and I'm a huge fan of the way you ...lose control and turn into an enormous green rage monster."
Bruce Banner: "Thanks."

YAY!
Diana