And in today's news -- heart attack

[rthstewart]

I came back to our rental property from an afternoon at the beach and found my mother in law trying to get into my laptop.  And my spousal unit, bless him, "Sorry, mom, but I don't know my wife's passwords."  Boundaries people.  Respect them. 

In other news, the Narnia Fic Exchange is going great guns!  Check it out!  Read!  Review!  snacky  and caramelsilver are doing an awesome job on it!

And what the heck, everyone else is, so... 
[Meme] If Alfred Hitchcock Made Cinderella
Seen in several places on the F-list:

If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
— Alfred Hitchcock

What do you expect to find when I write a story?

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[linneasr.livejournal.com]

What do I expect when you write a story?

Hm.

A piece of fiction that is well-researched (if set in This World), intelligently conceived with a worthwhile narrative structure, really amazing characters who I begin to think about while my attention should be on Latin, subtle humour (Jalur's toy otter, snort!), and, mostly, a mature understanding of the role emotions play in people's lives. How feelings colour, shape and motivate some of the most important bits of life, even while we're trying to be oh-so-rational about it all.

If my mother-in-law had ever tried to open my laptop, I would have wanted to bite her (hard). Then laugh, 'cause I keep some pretty raunchy things on the box, and it would almost have been worth it to see her face finding them. Rrrrrr.

Sigh. That's a bit of a fantasy. Realistically, I probably would've had a huge fight with my husband about his mother, and your anecdote inspires me to install passwords.

Gay finches??? Ahahahaaaa, wonderful. Thought: could finches all be gay by general predilection, and only find opposite-sex mates when in, um, heat? (What do birds have, anyway? It can't be estrous!) Tee hee!

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

Awww, thanks. I'm sensing a theme here in the research. Fortunately, I had turned the laptop off and did not have, oh I dunno, the latest reading from the Oxoniensis porn battle 12. I get really twitchy when anyone is even NEAR my laptop.

As for the reproductive cycles of birds, I knew this at one point because I got interested when paleontologists checked the fossilized bone marrow of a T.Rex and discovered she was female and pregnant and that the blood markers are some such thing were very avian. I also know that some songbirds in our yard mate at least twice in a spring season. Same sex bonding is really common in birds, too.