The alpha quadrant is a sad place this month. Majel Barrett Roddenberry, better known as Nurse Chapel, Lwaxana “Auntie Mame of the Galaxy” Troi and the voice of every Starfleet computer, died Dec. 19. (Link via Jimbo.)
Entries from December 2008
December 18, 2008
Basics and rent parties, or the real problem with chapter three
Three of my friends are unemployed. I have been distressed about this—though, I’m sure, not nearly as much as they are. And honestly, the past year that I spent being under-employed and searching for a new job cannot quite compare; I still had money coming in (albeit at a trickle), I had health coverage (though [...]
December 7, 2008
“Is this the party to whom I am speaking?” or “Pissed Off”
Which is my way of saying that I’ve really been phoning it in as far as this blog is concerned. It’s not that I haven’t been busy with a new job and a literacy student and my own writing, but let’s face it. I haven’t been that busy.
So let me tell you what had been [...]
December 5, 2008
The sky is NOT falling, but…
After reading this story about Harcourt Houghton Mifflin suspending new acquisitions, Barnes and Noble seeing same-store sales decline for the first time in its history, and the horrific state of book returns in the month of October (and really, why do bookstores and publishers agree to this arrangement?) and realizing that I still would one [...]
