Recent content by Rowan

I've been in the same boat as it were. The point, especially of the picture linked in the opening post, and which people seem to miss, is that most people would never say to someone with a visible illness or disability (say a missing limb) to just 'think healthy' or 'try not being an amputee'...

Jae, in my family we've always done noodles with browned butter at pretty much every holiday meal. If I had to guess it's probably something that came of living on a farm in the depression era, you had your own chickens and cows so could provide your own eggs for the noodles and cream to make...

When my Gran was still alive and there were a dozen (or more) people for the meal: Turkey Stuffing w/ sage and onion (home made, cooked inside the bird the way they try to tell people not to do these days ... I don't listen) Ham Mashed potatoes Mashed rutabaga Steamed Carrots w/ brown sugar...

The new Patrick Rothfuss book is due out Oct 28, 2014. It's titled The Slow Regard of Silent Things and according to Rothfuss' site it's about Auri. Sadly it's not Book Three, but I expect it'll be a good read. He's also got a short story about the character Bast in the Rogues Anthology...

Reading the article I got the feeling that the company in questions is not based in Canada. I am not even 100% sure from the article if the job itself would be in Canada. So they may be applying a different standard for what's acceptable. I personally find the University's 'covenant' and all...

Strikes me as an exorcism. With somewhat different wording the form would be very similar to a cross between a Pagan Banishing rite and a Protection spell. Which is probably the intended purpose more-or-less.

I keep thinking of giving Mieville a go. The books look interesting. I wish Rothfuss would hurry it the heck up with book 3. I'm currently re-reading things from my 'old favs' shelf - I've worked through the first couple of Laurie R King's Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes novels for about the...

A lot of people tend to view a childless couple as something less than a "family unit" regardless of how long those people have been together. I don't think I've EVER run across the term 'starting a family' in any context other than as an inquiry as to when a couple intends to have their first...

Well, as predicted, thing have mostly gone back to normal to work. Things are still a bit strained between me and the person I turned in, but the person is talking to me again and is no longer actively avoiding me. Once that person started acting more-or-less normally toward me pretty much...

I really hope people at work get tired of the effort involved in deliberately avoiding/ignoring me soon. Having had a few days to work through my own emotions I've mostly settled into tired: tired of feeling like I am living in Jr High while at work ( I wasn't exactly fond of that whole...

Just finished re-reading the entire Harry Dresden series by Jim Butcher. Currently I have several books 'on the go'. Terry Pratchett's "Small Gods", Mercedes Lackey's "Fire Rose", and Dean Russell's "The Initiate Brother"

The person in question actually had what I consider to be the unmitigated gall to tall me that doing 'the hard, honest thing' isn't always right.

I am hoping that this will blow over, but that will take time and right now it's hard being basically shunned by my co workers... I did what I did knowing full well that there would likely be personal consequences. I suppose the acid test is 'would I do it again knowing what people's reaction...

I'm having one of those weeks when I almost wish I weren't the kind of person who does the right thing pretty much regardless of the personal cost. To make a long story short I turned someone in at work for doing something appallingly inappropriate and unprofessional, that person figured out...