Not kidding, I really wanted to read Todd's thoughts on costumes.

That Umbrella novel sounds insane.

I'm glad I'm not the only person who experiences this.  I don't know if my gender is a factor (nerds are afraid of ladies even at cons?!), but no one ever talks to me and I'm too shy to talk to anyone.  In fact, at the second most recent con I went to, people started conversations across me in two separate lines, and…

It's a really weird coincidence that the wind seems to blow something into both of my eyes each time I read Todd's posts about Comic-Con.

I've always identified as "nerd" rather than "geek" (not because I subscribed to any particular definition of either, so much as just preferring one over the other) but I am completely ignorant when it comes to comics.

In my city we have an anime con that so far has been attended mostly by teenagers, although they've been trying to branch out in the last couple of years.  It is tiny and not very good yet.

DragonCon was the first one I ever went to, three years ago, as a consolation prize for not getting SDCC tickets.  I wasn't quite prepared for the nightlife aspect (and didn't participate), but I thought it was a lot of fun and would go again in a second if it wasn't so far away.

I have an old copy of Hotel sitting on my bookshelf that I really need to get to soon, if it's anything like what this sounds like.

I think Wizard and Glass is indeed the one I've enjoyed least so far as well, which surprised me because a lot of people rave about it.  I wish King had spent more time on the relationships between the three boys—which he's usually so good at—than on Roland and Susan boning constantly.  There's a giant dead zone in…

I haven't quite gotten to that stage yet, as my company has all of HR centralized at a corporate office and no HR people elsewhere, meaning I don't have easy access to them.  I think my best options lie with my current chain of command.  Unfortunately I don't have easy access to them at the moment, either, and this…

Some of it is industry-wide, some is job-specific.  I definitely need to find some sort of different work, and have started looking, but I'm not sure when it would be time to call it quits on engineering as a whole.  A lot of engineers work, let's say, frequent overtime (based on a quick survey of my various engineer…

Thanks.

I had to return the two books I was reading throughout June, and started the fifth Dark Tower book, The Wolves of Calla.  I'm really enjoying it a lot so far, despite the fact that it's one of the final three, which I've heard are weaker.  A lot of the reviews on Goodreads complain about it being too slow and full of…

On the extremely rare occasions when I don't have a seatbelt on and am in a moving car, I feel like I'm seconds away from some sort of horrible accident.

Agh, I can't even articulate a response to this, the attitude upsets me too much.

I don't really have any recurring dreams, but I do have one recurring dream element, where I will be falling or jumping from an enormous height, plummeting toward the ground and expecting to die, and then will land safely as if I just jumped down off of a chair or something.  It's.. weird.

Anytime I dream about work, I know that I'm having a w way too stressful time there.  And you're right that it makes you feel as if you've just worked all the way through the night.

When I learned how to drive, I seem to remember being told that you should always back in to parking spaces.  I nearly never do, but it doesn't bother me when people do it, either.  Seems like it would take just as long to back into a spot as to back out of it?

Coffee-flavoured Caramilk bars.  MMMMMMMMMMMM.

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