Ok - that was supposed to be 7pm EST and 4pm PST. Durn dyslexia.

Joe was on the episode. Hopefully you TiVo'd it.

I am proctoring some of the accommodated applicants at the California State Bar. I will be locked in a room with 10 really nervous people.

If I escape alive I will thank you all.

Much ~ma would be appreciated.

You may or may not have noticed my absence. There are a lot of things keeping me busy and b.org is a hard place to come back to and catch up if you're not reading regularly. I hope to keep my hand in here, but I don't know how long it'll be 'til I manage to get into a groove with fitting b.org into my websurfing again. (And I find I'm losing track of who's who on LJ on top of it all. I can only track one alias per person.)

I'm reachable at spidra@speakeasy.net in the meantime.

I'm hoping I can still get to know the various Bay Area Buffistae better in person even if I end up slacking online.

There has been a rather important addition to Jilli's Gothic Charm School Store - BLACK

So I can tell folks that I am weekly columnist for the new TokyoPop online, so for the time being I can be found...

Doing a weekly online column on movies, TV and DVD to TokyoPop

A weekly manga review on CBG Xtra website

A monthly manga column in the print Comic Buyer's Guide

With Ms. Havisham, doing a thrice weekly manga review blog called Prospero's Manga

Check out any or all of them.

Californistas, ahoy. Especially the TAR-watching ones.

Remeber back a few months ago my sister and I did something called Urban Dare, a sort of mini one-city Amazing Race? We had a blast, and are already lining up folks to do it with us next year.

I just got an email from the race organizer that they've added a few California dates to the calendar:

Urban Dare Santa Monica will take place on Saturday, August 26. The 11AM start will be right on the beach on the south side of the Santa Monica Pier. I have some good challenges lined up for you.

I'm not sure yet where we will start the September 23 Urban Dare San Diego, but the race will cover the downtown area. After the Santa Monica race, I'll go back for more scouting.

Urban Dare San Francisco takes place on Saturday, October 8. Needless to say, there will be some hills on this course.

You can check it out here: [link]

I strongly encourage y'all to check it out. You don't have to be athletes, though it doesn't hurt to be able to jog a few blocks.

My wig and cat and I are in San Francisco (area) safe and sound, despite the best efforts of the Canadian border guard; Park City, Utah; and the bizarre Bay Area highway system to derail us.

I have a place. We're doing paperwork and I'm moving in on Monday. I'm hella happy, and the place is wicked cool. And up on a mountain. I'll be posting pictures...sometime.

I also have a place! The paperwork has been signed, and I'll be moving in at the end of August/beginning of September. It's very pretty and in a nice location.

My MIL, who has terminal brain/lung/bone cancer is in hospital, in a coma, severly dehydrated, malnourished, in renal failure and with dropping 02 stats. The doctors/nurses at the hospital are not optimistic that she will come out of it.

~ma of all kinds would be appreciated.

So very sad.