Month: October 2012

  • Backing out of Seattle Sherlock panels

    Backing out of Seattle Sherlock panels

    I go and announce a thing I’m attending in a writerly capacity–and then keel over and have to go to the hospital. Figures. *^_^*;; Due to the previously mentioned hospital incident, folks, I feel I must play it safe and back out of the panels I agreed to participate in at the Sherlock Seattle convention…

  • Missed CoyoteCon, oops, and a fellow author recommendation!

    Missed CoyoteCon, oops, and a fellow author recommendation!

    Y’all know how I said I was going to be participating in CoyoteCon this past weekend? Um, yeah, well, that kind of fell through with the whole suddenly having to be in the hospital for five days thing I just had to do. Happily I’m fine now, but I was sad to miss the CoyoteCon…

  • Anna vs. H. pylori, or, the Very Bad No Fun Not Good Weekend

    Anna vs. H. pylori, or, the Very Bad No Fun Not Good Weekend

    A lot of you who follow me on the social networks and/or who also follow got all this in real time as we were posting about it, but for those of you who might have missed it, I was in the hopsital from Wednesday night until yesterday morning. What put me there was a bleeding…

  • Vertical Movement alert! GBS at the Moore, 3/8/2013!

    Vertical Movement alert! GBS at the Moore, 3/8/2013!

    Attention all Seattle GBS fans! If you don’t know already, the B’ys just announced the first leg of their massive 2013 tour plans, including a show in Seattle at the Moore on March 8th, 2013! Tickets for this show go on presale TOMORROW! You no longer need an account on greatbigsea.com to buy tickets–they removed…

  • Et maintenant, une journée avec Anna

    Et maintenant, une journée avec Anna

    Dans ce post, je vais pratiquer mon français! Si vos etes un francophone, j’invite vous à m’enseigne si je faire une erreur! Au matin, j’étudie le français avec SuperMemo sur mon iPhone. Je peux étudier sur le bus pendant que je vais au travail. Je suis un testeur pour notre site web à Big Fish…

  • Reading Grey Larsen's Essential Guide to Irish Flute and Tin Whistle…

    Reading Grey Larsen's Essential Guide to Irish Flute and Tin Whistle…

    … and even though I’m only into Chapter 1 thus far, already I’m finding this thing highly informative. Some of what he’s going over in the first chapter is familiar to me–basic stuff about how time signatures work, for example. And the difference between a tongued note and a slurred one. I remember these things…

  • Tri-lingual Hobbit re-read: Chapter 6 (still ongoing)

    Tri-lingual Hobbit re-read: Chapter 6 (still ongoing)

    And now, it’s time again for the Tri-lingual Hobbit Re-read! When last we left our intrepid band of short adventurers, they’d managed to escape the goblins only to run smack into a lengthy scene of exposition. This is what Bilbo gets for sneaking up on them all with a magic ring, doncha know. And then…

  • Fun with reels and podorythmie!

    Fun with reels and podorythmie!

    It was inevitable, O Internets, that when I fell in love with the podorythmie in Quebec music, I would of course eventually have to try it myself. Those of you who have seen me post about the monthly Quebec music sessions I’ve been going to know that I’ve already tried it a time or two…

  • An evening of flute practice

    An evening of flute practice

    As y’all know I’m a writer first and a musician second, but Musician!Anna is really only a few steps behind Writer!Anna, and if the instruments yell loud enough I have to pick them up. No questions asked and no quarter given. Tonight, the instruments yelled loud enough. So I grabbed Norouet and Shine for some…

  • Tri-lingual Hobbit re-read: Chapter 6 (ongoing)

    Tri-lingual Hobbit re-read: Chapter 6 (ongoing)

    Picking up again in Chapter 6 of The Hobbit, Gandalf is finishing up cluing in Bilbo on what happened while he was playing at riddles! General notes: Goodness, a book released today couldn’t get away with so much telling of action that the protagonist happened to miss, I must say! Much argument could be had…