• How the biopsy went this morning

    How the biopsy went this morning

    I posted a bit about this on the social networks, but here’s a somewhat longer report. What I went in for this morning at Evergreen was a stereotactic biopsy. Which basically means, a minimally invasive procedure in which they use targeted imaging and a thin needle. I had to lay face down on a table…

  • Well, today just got really, REALLY annoying

    Well, today just got really, REALLY annoying

    Just the other day I was posting to the social networks that I’d just realized that I’d passed the five-year mark since my original breast cancer diagnosis in 2007, and was closing in on five years since I’d been pronounced cancer-free and had commenced reconstruction surgery. (All that got started in 2008, until everything was…

  • Tri-lingual Hobbit re-read: Chapter 9

    Tri-lingual Hobbit re-read: Chapter 9

    Well, Chapter 8 was pretty exciting with all the Bilbo being heroic and OHNOEZ SPIDERS and YAY STING and OHNOEZ THORIN and stuff. Now, though, we get daring barrel-based escapes from cranky elves! (Because I’m kind of with Thranduil on this; if my house was infested with dwarves I’d be a bit cranky too. Unless…

  • A few words about expectations management

    A few words about expectations management

    Every so often well-meaning family and/or friends ask me questions like “So when do you get to quit your day job?” or “When do you get to be the next Tolkien/J.K. Rowling/Stephanie Meyer/Amanda Hocking/etc.?” Which are lovely questions and I do appreciate the support, but the long and short of it is, the likely answer…

  • Christmas at the Murkworks

    Christmas at the Murkworks

    The holidays are always a pretty low-key and kind of drawn-out affair at the Murkworks. As happens every year, Housemate Paul went to Virginia to see his family; thus, we held off the house gift exchange until he returned. Mostly, the holidays for Dara and me meant a relaxing vacation that nonetheless also involved working…

  • 2012 Book Log #16: Sweet Enemy, by Heather Snow

    2012 Book Log #16: Sweet Enemy, by Heather Snow

    My rating: 3 of 5 stars Sweet Enemy was a recommendation I picked up from my regular visits to SmartBitchesTrashyBooks.com, a book that falls into the general category of historical romances with bluestocking heroines. This book’s heroine, Liliana Claremont, is a brilliant chemist who chafes at the restrictions that society places upon her, keeping her…

  • Tri-lingual Hobbit re-read: Chapter 8

    Tri-lingual Hobbit re-read: Chapter 8

    This is the first of the Tri-lingual Hobbit Re-Read posts I’m making from angelahighland.com rather than annathepiper.org; I hope those of you who’ve been following me on the other site will pick them up again here. And for those of you who may be just recently joining me on angelahighland.com (hi, fellow Carina authors!), I…

  • Site update announcement

    Site update announcement

    This is my official post to note that as of the beginning of the new year, I’ll be doing the majority of my posting on my other blog, which is about to shift primary domains from angelakorrati.com to angelahighland.com. This is to consolidate my posting activity, and to make it easier for people who are…

  • Tri-lingual Hobbit re-read: Chapter 7 (third post)

    Tri-lingual Hobbit re-read: Chapter 7 (third post)

    Nothing quite like two viewings of the brand new Hobbit movie to get me in the mood to keep up with the Tri-lingual Re-read! Though I gotta say, people, it’s going to be difficult swinging back into Tolkien’s descriptions of the various dwarves, now that I’ve seen the movie–twice now–and have completely fallen in love…

  • 2012 Book Log #15: Cape Storm, by Rachel Caine

    2012 Book Log #15: Cape Storm, by Rachel Caine

    My rating: 3 of 5 stars The second to last Weather Warden novel was one that it took me a bit to get to, on a couple of grounds. One, that one of the plot threads in it sounded like something we’d already seen happen earlier in the series. And two, that I’d started reaching…