Inventrix | March 8, 2010
We all know racism is a bad thing. “Don’t judge people by their skin color alone!” and so on are such common statements that I personally think they’re losing any sort of meaning to the general populace. But that’s a topic for another day.
The fact of the matter is, racism, sexism, and all of those [...]
Inventrix | February 24, 2010
I got a random anonymous question on my formspring account, which hit one of my ‘things I have a problem with’ buttons. I ended up typing up a really long response, and felt it was more suitable to be put on this blog. So I copied it here.
The ‘question’
You are gorgeous. You are smart. Life [...]
Inventrix | February 23, 2010
So, lately, especially since the Frog Princess first came to light, there’s been all this talk about Disney’s “princess problem” and how they’re setting up their movies in an attempt to reverse that mentality. So of course I am sitting here, being an animated Disney movie fan myself, and marvelling on the bizarre nature [...]
Inventrix | February 17, 2010
original post is here
You may all be pleased/excited/uncaring to know that, thanks to my mother’s excellent advice in pointing me towards the BookSleuth forum at AbeBooks, I now have the title and author of the bizarre and confusing book that I was so puzzling over!
It is “Lavondyss” by Robert Holdstock, and the reviews on amazon.com [...]
Inventrix | December 14, 2009
Sometimes I wish I had a camera attached to my scooter to take pictures of the scenery while I’m driving. Today was definitely one such a day.
I left for work this morning and what did I see? Fog. Glorious, wonderful fog. And at ten o’clock in the morning! It was wonderful, amazing, beautiful, I LOVE [...]
Inventrix | November 10, 2009
Funny story.
I was baking brownies for my boyfriend’s birthday, and I added twice the flour needed. Oops.
After much debate, I decided to finally just double the recipe, despite only having one baking dish. Unfortunately, when I put the batter in said baking dish, I apparently put in rather more than half. Fear [...]
Inventrix | November 10, 2009
A couple of weeks ago (actually, exactly two weeks ago) I finally got my scooter back from the shop. Among other minor cosmetic things still wrong with it (mostly by my choice), the little rubber thing that sealed the trunk lock against the side of the scooter was partially detached. My dad and [...]
Inventrix | October 29, 2009
I had an awesome dream the other night, and not for the same reasons that my dreams usually will earn the adjective of awesome. In fact, it had what would often have been a count against it: elves. Yes, the entire dream was about elves. Every single person in it was an [...]
Inventrix | October 1, 2009
I have a lot of things that I’d like to do in my life. Too many, in some respects. I’m generally good at recognizing the practicality/plausibility of achieving each of them, and in some cases trimming the ideas down to make them more doable.
But there is one such dream that I have which I honestly don’t think will ever happen, mostly because the first requirement would be having lots of money. And I mean lots of money. As I like to tell myself frequently, however, there is always the chance (however infinitesimally small) that I will someday come into a very large quantity of money, so sometimes I pass my mental idle time by planning out the logistics of achieving this dream if I had the money.
I’m sure by this point you’re thinking “is she going to tell us what this idea is or not?!” Whyever would I do that? (Just kidding.) The idea can be summarized in a single, simple sentence, actually.
Create a steampunk town.
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Inventrix | September 16, 2009
For a writer, I have an impossibly difficult time communicating thoughts in casual conversation. Spoken and written.
It’s like, you think it’s just other people not understanding you until you realize that it happens all the time, with everyone, and the only common denominator is you. Kind of like that joke about past relationships.
