Uncreated Conscience

After two long years (with a 10 month hiatus in between), Bear and I have received our A licenses at last. It’s been a long journey, but completely and utterly worth it. Skydivers are a curious breed. To call us adrenaline junkies would be over-simplification; of course, we are adrenaline junkies. Not many people would [...]

My dearest, most darling Sofa is travelling in Europe for three weeks, seeing her family in Belgium and enjoying the sights before buckling down to attend law school. This means I am apartment sitting, which means I am living in Manhattan part-time to make sure her abode doesn’t…I don’t know, burn down or something. (Sofa [...]

I don’t know, what’s it like being a human? Alas, since the weather was 10 kinds of hell on Sunday (with tornado warnings!), Bear and I were unable to jump. Again. However, I did relish the time off to rest my shoulder, but more than that, it was unexpectedly nice to hang out with my [...]

All over the blogosphere and Twitterverse, there are opinions about Justine Larbalestier‘s book cover for her latest novel LIAR. LIAR is about a multiracial girl named Micah (her father is part black) who is a compulsive (possibly pathological) liar, but the cover features a white girl. Now, I read the ARC of LIAR back in [...]

Thanks to everyone who recommended books to me. I have not yet taken up everyone on their recommendations (I am totally running out and getting Catherynne Valente’s PALIMPSEST when I get the chance), although I did spend part of my birthday giftcard on two books to read on my road trip down to North Carolina. [...]

Indoor skydiving can really take it out of a girl. Especially if she’s developed a previously unknown shoulder problem that has a propensity to dislocate in the middle of a skydive. I mean, what the fuck? This has happened to me twice now and it’s never happened before. I’ve never injured my shoulder in any [...]

I currently have a bit of a dilemma. Nothing major, of course. But my dilemma is that I have $50 to spend on books and I don’t know what I want to read. Here’s my problem: in the past year, I have accepted that I am almost exclusively a reader of young adult books. I [...]

Attending midnight viewings makes one feel suspiciously hungover the next morning, even when there was no alcohol involved. How is that possible? Is it because I’m old now? I am 24 years old after all. Last night, Wicked Cool Riley, her friend Chris, and I attended a midnight showing of Harry Potter & The Half-Blood [...]

Has it really been a week since I’ve updated last? Yikes. As seems to be the tradition since I’ve reached “adulthood,” my natality seems to be a week-long celebration. Wednesday night I went over to Sofa’s apartment for an evening of Bones and wine coolers as we are wont to do, except she surprised me [...]

I had completely forgotten how mentally taxing skydiving can be. And I’m not talking about the possibilities of malfunctions or problems on a jump (which should be percolating at the back of the mind, of course), but just what concentration it takes. What focus. The complete and utter awareness of the body and how it [...]