Sunday Post

Hey folks. I was on holidays last week--a real, actual vacation away from home. I brought all kinds of work with me to do and only ended up doing a bit of it AND went like two days without checking my email. I'm sure that had people pulling their hair out waiting for me to reply, and I grant you I have a week's worth of work to catch up on, but...this is an important step for me, a workaholic.

Of course, I've been in hermit mode since I got back. I've found new and exciting things to do this weekend, including colour coordinating everything hanging in my closet. And my landlord is bringing a new fridge tomorrow, so I had to hide the meth lab. (KIDDING. If my landlord is reading this, hi, nice to see you, I swear I don't have a meth lab. Just pot plants. And I'm also kidding about that. Probably.)

We went to see Shutter Island, and although I was accidentally spoiled ahead of time for the twist, I thought it was a really well done film and quite enjoyed it. Then we saw Alice in Wonderland, and I adored it--as far as movies-that-aren't-intended-to-be-feminist-but-have-some-great-feminist-messages go, it was a great example.

Since I wasn't online for a week, I'm kinda short on things to link to today because my mum is on dial-up and so I don't bother trying to do much on her computer. But here are a couple of things:

* Lili Saintcrow on not knowing if your writing is good enough to submit. Because I work in slush so I see a whole lot of stuff that I can clearly see wasn't good enough for the author to submit (that's like 80% of what we see), but those writers thought their work was ready. How do you gain the objectivity to tell and keep yourself from being the writing equivalent of the tone-deaf people on American Idol? Well, if you keep working and writing, eventually you'll probably get some objectivity, but you'll likely always have those moments of "OMG, this book sucks." Welcome to being a writer! It never gets easier. Here, have a beer.

* A high school cancels prom over one of the students wanting to bring her girlfriend. You know, I was going to write a long rant here, but I`d likely be preaching the to the choir 'cause I know such awesome people. But FYI: a huge portion of our (meaning N.America, 'cause this happened in the US) population really fucking sucks sometimes.

* A great piece by Jenny the Bloggess over at Good Mom/Bad Mom on being worthy.

* An article from February, but a fantastic philosophy that it sold me on hiring Michelle myself: Eat food. Stuff you like. As much as you want.

* I'm on Formspring. Go ahead and ask me anything anonymously. I'll probably answer.

I can't think of any entertaining videos this week, 'cause again, I didn't see any...so if you have some to share, Tweet me or throw 'em in the comments!