So last night I settled in to watch the premier of The Vampire Diaries on CW. I had my tea at hand, Myra McEntire (who was lucky enough to see the pilot like 6 weeks ago) on GoogleTalk to compare notes and impressions, and my attention was rapt. For...

At the time of this writing, my laptop is on its last, battery-powered breath.  I have been able to prolong this death by considerable contortions and applying pressure to the wound.  You see, my laptop cable has broken.  AGAIN.  I have had this...

I’ve been writing for seventeen years.  Coming up with characters and stories for longer than that.  I have learned that characters have very little respect for personal space, time, prior obligations, or anything else relating to living life in the...

I’ve been on the warpath in one of my classes this morning.  One of my students called my call FIVE TIMES this morning while I was trying to get ready for work.  Did not bother leaving a voicemail to say what the problem was.  I didn’t call back. ...

It’s Sunday morning and I’m back from garage sale madness.  I left Thursday night for my mom’s and spent Friday and through noon Saturday trying to sell a bunch of stuff I no longer needed or wanted.  I’m pretty pleased.  I made $158.50, got rid of...

This is my 1,000th post at Shadow and Fang.  I would like to say that I have some brilliant insight to share that everyone will want to retweet, but to be perfectly honest, I’m having one of my rare “I hate writing.  Why am I doing this to myself?”...