Category Archives: Personal

Phone Trouble

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Cora

I was away for most of today and when I got home, I found that the phone system had broken down and stubbornly refuses all repair attempts. The phone system won’t even connect to my laptop. The internet is still … Continue reading →

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The Bacon Cat Law of Internet Popularity

Posted on July 12, 2011 by Cora

I had a different post drafted for today. A serious post about German literature, linguistics and unusual narrative perspectives inspired by the awarding of the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize yesterday. But then something happened. I went online and found that my … Continue reading →

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I accidentally corner the market for Strunk/White fanfiction

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Cora

I just went online and – as always – checked my sites for stats and new comments (replies coming tonight) and found that my stats had literally exploded over night. This site has already twice as many views at midday … Continue reading →

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Introducing Pegasus Pulp

Posted on July 3, 2011 by Cora

It has taken a while, but Pegasus Pulp, my independent e-publishing company, is finally open for business. A skeleton version of the Pegasus Pulp website has been online for a while, but I put the finishing touches on the site … Continue reading →

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They all go to Walle

Posted on July 3, 2011 by Cora

Since my Mom is on her own this weekend, I picked her up this morning and we drove out to Walle, a neighbourhood in West Bremen. First we visited Walle cemetery where my grandma (and grandfather and great-grandparents, but I … Continue reading →

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Holidays at Last

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Cora

Today was my last day of school before the summer holidays. The kids still have three more days of school, but those are dedicated to school trips and sport festivals in which I am not involved, so today was my … Continue reading →

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Four things I did today, two random cool links and some searchterm weirdness

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Cora

Four things I did today: Searched for flights to a town in western Greenland I had never heard of before today. And while the various Internet flight portals are useful for finding cheap flights to various Mediterranean holiday destinations or … Continue reading →

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A Visitor Spike

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Cora

This blog has been experiencing an influx of new visitors and a spike of hits of late. Mostly this is due to people looking for my Game of Thrones related posts. Even more amazingly, my latest post on the ABC … Continue reading →

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Speculative fiction by women – and what exactly are the neighbours hiding in their garden anyway?

Posted on June 15, 2011 by Cora

Even though I didn’t have school today – Pentecost holidays, hurray – I’m awfully tired. First of all, my sleep this morning was cut short by an infernal noise that turned out to be my stupid neighbours from across the … Continue reading →

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The Internet has shut down for the weekend – and some other crap

Posted on May 30, 2011 by Cora

The internet seems to have been largely shut down this weekend, because the Americans are off celebrating one of those American-only holidays and much of the online speculative fiction community is hanging out at Wiscon. Since there’s not much going … Continue reading →

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