Only tangentially related as this is a BCO:

No long vacations planned - but going to go to the hills surrounding Alba over easter, to Kiel for the 1st of May weekend, a week to the côte d'azur end of June and a long week/10 days to Sweden in August/September. It feels weird to not have planned at least 2 weeks of vacation for the whole year. There is a nebulous…

Beer Bike is basically what we call College Christmas. =P Only a few hours of it is actually the Beer Bike part (a relay race where each team has people chugging water (used to be beer before the drinking age was raised) and then a biker to go around the track). Before the races, the students start drinking and…

Does anyone have vacation plans?

I'll be doing a lot of traveling this March! Tomorrow, once my I get back home from my night shift, I'm taking quick shower, then leaving for the aiport to go to San Francisco for most of the week (I'm just tagging along on my dad's business trip in between my current job ending and my new temp job starting on the…

Very jealous of your Japan trip, I would love to visit there someday. The husband and I are going to Hawaii at the end of April. I was promised this trip shortly after we got married. We're finally going 8 years later....

Nothing (that) interesting. Going to Vegas yet again with the boy to visit my parents. I love that they decided to move out there since I get a free trip every year.

I am going to Edinburgh and London in May. I haven't been on vacation in more than a decade, and I really need this, though lately I have been questioning the financial wisdom of the whole thing. I have been planning it in my head for a few years, and finally, on Christmas Eve I just said fuck it and booked plane…

I have vacation fantasies in my head but sadly that's all I get right now.

Thanks for the tip, I'll def check that website out. I would SO be torturing myself over hotels if I were in your shoes....I feel ya.

Oh wow, I just read the description and that sounds really interesting. I'll have to see if my library has it. Thanks!

Super rough week over here, but good weekend so far.

I got to visit Louise today. She comes home with me permanently in 2 weeks. She is one month old today. Her sharp teeth are coming in, and she is eating moistened and dry dog food.

I'm inclined to give him a pass for being 20, but this is very bad writing.

You are entirely right to ridicule this man and his writing. I can tell by the sample that he is an awful person to be around and an unbearable writer. That second sample reads like Yoda was the editor.

I'm doing a" Great American Road" trip in the fall, following as best I can, Route 66 through the Southwest and hitting up every tourist trap along the way. It's months away but I like planning in advance. I spend a bunch of time on line sussing out historical sites to stop at, local dive bars and restaurants to…

There's this guy on my Facebook who considers himself a serious fiction writer and has been trying to get his work published. I find his personality insufferable but always figured he must be a pretty good writer if he's so into it. Well he just posted a link to a blog where he publishes his work and wow... Maybe I'm…

There is no wrong time for breakfast.

Just a fun feel-good set of stories for everyone.

I wrote a romance book about a character who suffered from a panic disorder. I got an email from a reader who said she decided to get help for her anxiety disorder, which she never told anyone about before. She's been dealing with panic attacks and general anxiety her…

Yesss! So glad I'm here early; all the better to fight my way outta the grays! And I need (fun) advice tonight.