I had lunch with my mom today, and she asked how work was going, so I was like, “well. everyone’s real intense right now since we have [big upcoming product] deadlines.”

and her eyes lit up and she was like, “oh yes! that’s going to be downloaded over the internet and just…appear for me, right?”

(so proud)

and I nodded and described the upgrade process and she goes

“so how much will that cost?”

…leaning forward, ready to pay whatever price, ready for it to suck…

and so it was with an immense amount of pride that I got to be the one to inform my mother that:

“it’ll be free. if you get it this year, you have it from now on.”

I am not wholesale on board with everything this company does do not get me wrong and yes there are ways they’re going to make money

but fuck. that was cool.

And then there were two alien seductions

Overheard in the library. I don’t even think it was a mistake, I’m pretty sure he really did mean seduction. (via mylifeinthelibrary)

if I truly liveblogged my life I would have a metric fuckton of great material but I’m not willing to sacrifice my privacy and dignity for y’alls amusement

finished RLS read-through. sending it to editor tomorrow. starting to garner small following by word of mouth. need to set up website and quick.

I work with the kind of team that fights me over claiming good character names