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I was away at my mum's for Easter weekend. I went horseback riding on her horse, Mack.

I didn't fall off and break anything, which is a good thing considering he's 17.5 hands. Of course, he doesn't look that big with ol' Amazon me on his back...

For those who didn't see:

I'm totally rocking the riding hat.

Mack in his saddle. He's a Belgian.

Third time in my life I was *actually* on a horse...and this is an odd thing considering my mum had two horses for the first fifteen years of my life (two m

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I've been putting off writing this all day.

Today is the two year anniversary of the death by public stoning (or "honour killing") of Du'a Khalil Aswad. Had she lived to today, she'd be nineteen years old.

Du'a was Iraqi (from Kurdistan), and an adherent to the Yazidi faith. She fell in love with a Muslim boy. Her tribe found out, and, you see, this crime "dishonoured" them. Her parents hid her and planned to get her out of the country. Honour or not, they didn't want their daughter to die.

Sh

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So a brief commercial for the news popped up on Global TV a short while ago. There was mention of the prime minister criticizing the new law passed in Afghanistan that severely limits womens' rights.

The newcaster then describes it as a bill that, "would legalize forced sex within marriage."

Huh.

You know...I'm *pretty* sure we have a word for the phrase "forced sex"...let me think...yeah, yeah we do...

It's called rape.

I find it extremely disappointing that media outlets so often refuse to use t

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I've decided to put Curio Killed the Cat on hiatus for a couple of weeks. I have student reports due soon at work, I'm working an extra long shift tomorrow for my boss, and I need to start packing 'cause I'm moving next weekend. I don't want the added stress of scrambling to finish a bunch of chapters too. So I'm thinking no Curio chapter tomorrow due to my work schedule, none the Monday after 'cause I may not have my internet up and running, and none the week after that due to it being Easte

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Consider yourself warned...there are important spoilers about Children of the Apocalypse here!

22/03/2009

IM Conversation between Skyla and Elaine regarding Children of the Apocalypse characters and plot twists.

Skyla: no, for reals! they all get new love interests
Elaine: Because all their current love interests die horribly?
Skyla: um...
Skyla: actually, I can't kill any lesbian love interests
Skyla: apparently that's a horrible cliche and I don't' want to Tara anyone
Skyla: I mostly hate Janine's na

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So we all know the story of Skyla accidentally overwriting the file for CotA Chapter 3-3. And how she was supposed to have it done and up by the 15th. And by now we've probably figured out that it's not up yet.

Truthfully, I've been insanely busy. I've been working a lot (promotions are awesome, although they usually come with more responsibility, meaning lots more to do). I just signed the lease agreement for my apartment. I've been spending several hours on my free days to do fundraising f

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Yes, I'm doing a meme. Shut up.

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Dear Dan,

I don't really know how to tell you this, but I'm in love with your cat. I think I realized it last year when you peed your pants at the mental hospital and I saw you sit on my illegitimate child in Ghana. I'm sure you're middle-class enough to understand that I'm allergic to your earlobes. I'm returning your Hannah Montana underwear to you, but I'll keep your collection of butterflies as a memory. You should also know tha

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...and it has nothing to do with this blog entry, but I just thought I'd comment.

I've been on the apartment hunt ever since I got my last promotion/raise. Unfortunately, I can't afford much. There's a bachelor apt that's definitely affordable, and I'll look at it, but...I have no idea how I'm going to fit a double bed, couch, desk, and all this other stuff in there if it's as small as I think it is.

There's one that I'm coveting. I even have dreams about it (when I'm not dreaming about a huge s

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- Dye my roots.

- Answer sane-sounding author inquiries.

- Answer insane sounding author inquiries.

- Write Monday's Curio Killed the Cat chapter.

- Read slush.

- Play Kung-Fu Panda to regain some sanity.

- Work on an art piece I have a concept for (called Wild).

- Spend quality time with boyfriend.

Okay, so it's more like I *nearly* have finished Monday's chapter. A couple more paragraphs, and I'm there.

And I'm about fifty/fifty on the answering of author inquiries, be it insane ones or not. H

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So here's the short version of what happened.

I pulled out the chapter to beat into shape today and saved it in a file type that I could use on my friend's version of Word. Turns out I saved over the real file. I've lost a nearly 5000 word chapter.

Add to this the fact that I currently work around 12 - 14 hours every day...and you hopefully understand why I didn't have time to rewrite it--and when I'm not sure when I'll be able to get to it. Why do I work 12 -14 hours a day? Why, so that I can

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