Month: October 2012

  • Updates

    I’ve started watching Friday Night Lights. It really is as awesome as everyone says. YA + football + great television = Kristan’s dreams come true. Also, Gaius Charles (aka Brian “Smash” Williams) is a Carnegie Mellon alum! Supposedly he landed a recurring role on this season of Grey’s Anatomy too. Work-wise, I’m still editing my manuscript.…

  • Stuff worth reading

    “Loud, Ugly, Wild, Free” by Veronica Roth For me, it doesn’t really help to decide to write a shitty first draft and let that be the end of it, because it goes completely against my nature and the core of my person— it’s too hard for me, in other words, to just say “oh well.…

  • 5 years

    Dear Puppa, It’s hard to believe you’ve gone from this… To this… But I have photographic proof, so it must be true. Sometimes I wish you could have stayed the adorable little fuzzball we brought home from the shelter forever — purely for the cuteness factor. But really, you’re a great grown-up dog (most of…

  • TV Talk: Character

    Spoiler level: Low. Highlight or hover over the white text to read spoilers. Scandal 2.01 – “White Hat’s Off” If you, like me, somehow found yourself rooting for the completely inappropriate romance between Olivia Pope and President Fitzgerald Grant, then First Lady Melinda Grant probably isn’t your favorite person. She definitely isn’t Fitz’s. But of…

  • Let’s talk television

    In addition to the gorgeous colors and amazing weather, autumn brings back two of my favorite things: football and television shows. All my must-watch series are back — and crazier than ever! (Except for So You Think You Can Dance, which airs during the summer and is wonderfully low on crazy.) Unfortunately, the networks have…