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Finished! Rifinito! Fertig! GeÃ«indigd!

14JuneSuzanne5 CommentsHome in the Rookery

I am done with my degree. Done. All done. A few facts about the monsterÂ I’ve justÂ slain: I’veÂ sought five or six majors over the years, and ended up with the one I ranked most boring when I started.Â As you can imagine, this means I’m weighing in a little heavy on the credits count–in these last

TGIF the 13th

13JuneSuzanneHome in the Rookery

Otherwise I might think I was jinxed or something.Â The exam I took today should have been relatively easy, as I’ve been prepping for over a week, and I should have had it wrapped up in less than one and a half hours.Â Instead, it was a bruiser, definately in the top two hardest tests

Rejection Flowers

5JuneSuzanne2 CommentsHome in the Rookery, Writing

When a significant rejection letter comes in, people sometimesÂ give themselves a consolation prize.Â A chocolate treat, maybe a book.Â I have a friend who buys shoes. When your house isn’t selling, you buy flowers. In fact, I’m beginning to see a direct corrolation between the seller’s level of concern, ranging from mild to manic, and

Doing the WorldCon Jig

19MaySuzanne2 CommentsHome in the Rookery, Writing

We’re in!Â The last piece of our puzzle, the hotel suite, just fell into place.Â We’ve got the tickets, of course the membership/passes, and now the room.Â Yahoo! We’ve been so crazy busy, and life has been so crowded, I’m not sure I believed this would work out.Â Of course, we’ll still have to get

Three Weeks, and Gas K.O.

12MaySuzanneHome in the Rookery, Rumblings

I feel rather like a puffer fish who’s taken in all the water/air he can absorb but must still absorb a bit more.Â I have three weeks of classwork left, during which time I’ll also take four of my last finals.Â Then it’ll be a bit of mopping up, so to speak, and one last

Ducking into the New House

6MaySuzanneHome in the Rookery

We closed on our new property approximately a week ago, and have started the planned painting, etc. which the slow market has made possible by dint of leaving us the proud owners of two houses. All around the new place are these giant hardwood trees, and when we pull up I feel my soul expand

Exploring the Underworld

14AprilSuzanneHome in the Rookery, The Human Condition

I’ve wondered what my attraction is to caving.Â It seems an odd pasttime for one who is not entirely comfortable underground, but I’ve now visitedÂ five or sixÂ caves, sometimes in multiple visits,Â and haveÂ more on my list. Perhaps it’s the thrill of exploration, the awareness of potential danger, or the acute peak of the senses while underground.Â Â Our

Dry Ice and Sassafras Memories

9AprilSuzanne1 CommentHome in the Rookery

Our son came in today and asked if “some time we can get some dry ice to play with.” After taking a deep breath (he caught me in the middle of dinner prep.) I reminded him that frozen carbon dioxide is not a toy, and he will not be ‘playing’ with it.Â Of course, I

New Meaning to Red Eye

2AprilSuzanneHome in the Rookery, Rumblings

Note to self: Red means danger.Â Red means stop.Â Red means don’t-put-it-in-your-eye. I have the kind of contacts which soak overnight in a peroxide solution.Â They get nicely cleaned, and by morning the peroxide’s neutralized.Â Then, I keep a saline solution at hand, and squirt a bit of that in the contacts before putting them

Sightseeing From Space

26MarchSuzanneHome in the Rookery, Speculative Science

WhileÂ I was packing for our spring break trip to Mammoth Caves, in Kentucky, I stumbled across this blurb about the new Lynx.Â Perhaps after we climb out of the depths of the earth and shake off the dust, we’ll plan our next trip–in the opposite direction.

Suzanne Warr

Narrative designer, game designer, author

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