Uncreated Conscience

My apartment is currently in such a state of flux I don’t even know what to do with myself. Life has overturned itself fairly quickly in the past month as to my great sorrow (but to her great delight), my wonderful friend and roommate Wicked Cool Riley announced she was moving in with her boyfriend [...]

This past weekend, Bear and I decided to go see Inglourious Basterds. I am completely behind the times as to what’s currently playing in theatres (I’m still stuck on Star Trek and Half-Blood Prince—clearly the geek wins out over everything else), but I figured Quentin Tarantino would be a decent bet. Review of Inglourious Basterds [...]

I had all these ideas for blog posts, but the soupy August weather has caused my brain to turn into mush. I am completely over summer. Sad as I am to have my skydiving season come to an end early this year (stupid med school!), I am more than ready to move on. August is [...]

Months after everyone else (but coincidentally about the same time as my friend Katranna), I decided to give Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse a go. Now, I’ve made no secret of the fact that I find Firefly the best of Whedon’s shows for many reasons, not the least of which is because I found its premise the [...]

A snippet bit of conversation here at Casa JJ: RUSS: Do you have SHIVER by Maggie Stiefvater? JJ: YES! OMG, here it is, it’s so amazing. RUSS: Yeah, I saw it in a bookstore the other day and thought about picking it up, but then I thought I’d better ask JJ if she has it [...]

Okay, I give up; not only am I a sentimental fool, I’m also a complete and utter SAP who apparently cries at the drop of a hat. Take this video for instance: I…I…I can’t even begin to describe how much this moved me. This woman is an artist. Her name is Kseniya Simonova, and she [...]

I need a Boswell who skydives, mostly because I keep forgetting to log my jumps after I do them and then have to do some detective work to find out which dates I was at the DZ. (Thankfully, this is what Twitter seems to be good for.) I have a gazillion ideas for blog posts, [...]

There is not enough coffee in the world to keep me awake. Serves me right for staying up until 2am rereading HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE and finishing Sarah MacLean‘s THE SEASON. (Review for the latter coming soon, I promise, as well as some thoughts about skydiving relative work.) But good writing is better than coffee. In [...]

Despite the fact that I’ve lived in New York for going on 5 years now and despite the fact that I am one of the world’s biggest fans of young adult and children’s literature, I had never stepped foot inside Books of Wonder before Sunday. (Even sadder? I used to live around the corner on [...]

Sometimes I feel as though I have two distinct blogging selves: the nerdy, YA-bookish half and the laid-back, adrenaline-junkie skydiving half. I’ve given my skydiving self some good blog time, so I figure I’ll let the YA-bookish self come out to play. I have read a lot of new books in the past few weeks [...]