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The Never Ending Battle

Not to be confused with the Never Ending Story. That’s something different.* The never-ending battle is the fight to get something, anything, done when all I really have the energy to do is wander around watching cat videos and reading cool science articles. Fellow Turtleducker Siri the Amazing (She works! She knits! She dances, and […]

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YA is as Dark as it Needs to Be, and Librarians are Superheroes

YA is as Dark as it Needs to Be, and Librarians are Superheroes

At my high school, the library came in two sections. Because the middle school–grades 7 and 8– was on the second floor of the high school, the library had a middle school section and a high school section. High school kids could choose from either, but middle school kids had to stay out of the

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Names are Hard, Man

Names are Hard, Man

So I’ve signed up (once again) to write for the Goodreads M/M Romance group event. This year it’s Love Has No Boundaries. (That’s my prompt, but you have to be a member to follow the link. Here’s the group if you wanna join.) One of my early steps in creating a new story is naming

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Should Have Put Him in a Headlock

Should Have Put Him in a Headlock

Warning: not-graphic discussion of women’s parts and problems below. If you can’t handle that, I’m gonna suggest you go somewhere else till you mature a little bit. If you don’t want to read, well, I said it wasn’t graphic, but whatever. It’s a big internet–take care and have a good day! So. I’m seriously getting

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Procrastination Help

I mean, help for procrastinators! Pretty sure nobody actually needs help to procrastinate… Anyway. I use Chrome to surf the web, and I use the web to procrastinate. Whoo boy, do I ever! Especially Tumblr, and that one game I play on Facebook… Meet my new best friend. Found it in the Chrome app store

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Weekend of ACCOMPLISHING STUFF

Weekend of ACCOMPLISHING STUFF

Weekend, yay! I’ve been needing it all week! When you start on Monday afternoon going “it really needs to be Friday,” you can guess the rest of the week is not going to be peachy. I spent much of it going “I’ll get that this weekend” and then fretting that my weekend would be miserable.

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Because Dental Care is a Luxury, Some People are Poor, and Toothaches HURT

Because Dental Care is a Luxury, Some People are Poor, and Toothaches HURT

So if you’ve been around lately, you may have read that due to a Financial Aid issue, I had to pay for my spring semester myself, and I found this out two days before tuition was due. That wiped me out. I don’t know about you, but I don’t have $500 just lying around. I

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