Lila Prime

This Is How You Lose the Time War  by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone is an epistolary romance novel(la) between opposing time-travel agent...

My desk already had fun math puzzles, as decoration and to occupy my hands and mind while I spin my brain-wheels on research problems. To ...

Carol tells the story of a woman (the titular Carol) who meets another woman (Therese); they strike up a friendship and go on a car trip. T...

A nice, depressing, abstracted rumination for Valentine's Day: "lovers cradling one another on the beach, murmuring the three words...

Another couple months, another set of life experiences and retrospective thoughts about them, posted to the internet for all of noisy poster...

Mawwiage ... is what bwings us here togefah... today. And it also permeates my social media of late, a symptom of the pleasantness of July...

Happy Valentine's Day. Octopus! Fish! This post's theme word: mawkish, "excessively sentimental, especially in a false or chil...

For my birthday, my very affectionate boyfriend R. kidnapped my bicycle (I was out-of-the-country) and repainted it green. I really appreci...

I've been to two weddings in as many weekends. It never rains but it pours, and apparently my peer group has just broached the marriage...

Impressions of the rehearsal dinner from the J. & N. wedding: the food was delicious, and all home cooked , which is both impressive an...

The boy bought me some cute flowers that were brightly colored by feeding them food coloring. This had an interesting effect on the water. ...

Happy Valentine's Day! This week I blew off steam at the archery range. I shot this cute, chubby little cupid right through his adorabl...

The boy brought me flowers when I came back from California. He also brought me flowers when he came by to pick me up to go to the symphony....

Vacation is a few days over, and I've been back to work. My last post of the year will be how my brain works: all the referential highl...

It's Saturday, it's snowing, and I am happy. Yesterday was 4 hours of office hours, and board games, and finding the Madison, and th...

These are, of course, crushes from afar. Probably in real life, these actors do not manifest any characteristics I find attractive. I invi...

This post's theme romantically-attractive feature: nerd jokes.

A few times, guys have hit on me at the gym. I don't know why -- I'm all sweaty, I'm out of breath, I'm listening to music,...