Sara Ryan

…unsullied by spam, but I haven’t done the full upgrade to my WordPress software yet. Please email or comment if you see more evidence of spam in the posts, because rest assured that I have NOT decided that my blog would be a fine vehicle for promoting spammers’ sordid wares, or warez, as the case [...]

My apologies to anyone who clicked the “More” link on my last post and ran into a whole bunch of super creepy links. I haven’t figured out how the hack worked, but it was indeed a hack. Ew. I probably need to upgrade my WordPress.

Folks have been blogging about the new Borders “concept stores,” [...]

I’ll be sharing a table with Mr. Lieber in Artists’ Alley, # AA10 according to the website.
I will have comics and stickers and books. I’ll be there Saturday and Sunday. I hope to see some of y’all there!

Years ago, when the romantic lives of my circle of friends (and me) were more dramatic and volatile than (for the most part) they currently are, some of us took a road trip and saw a sign reading “Caution: New Traffic Patterns.” It immediately became code for “Uh oh, relationships are shifting again and nobody [...]

1. We are hosting a cool cartoonist for the next few months. Since she’s been staying with us, we have cooked at home more than we have in an embarrassingly long time. Yay for the good influence of houseguests!
2. SF! I think I’m going to WonderCon. I don’t have the tickets yet but I think [...]

I wonder if they got enough for new uniforms.

The tile is embedded in the middle of a busy street. I saw a few similar ones, but they were more fragmentary. Turns out it’s one of these.

Perhaps an honest self-assessment?

Never know who you’ll run into.

Did the paint just happen to peel in the shape of a [...]

…you carefully assemble all the documents you need for the conference, including your e-ticket, your badge, all the agendas for all the meetings, and your hotel confirmation, all very tidily in a three-ring binder…
AND LEAVE THE BINDER ON YOUR DESK WHEN YOU WALK OUT OF THE OFFICE.

Hey, everybody. It’s been a while.
Man.
You go away from easy Internet access for a week and somebody hacks your dang MySpace. For any of y’all who got bulletins from “me” alerting you to the latest horizontal hijinks of a young lady who I will not name, who is famous for being famous, please accept my [...]

Steve and I may have a new career with great prospects.

You probably can’t read that, but it says “Check Left Front Tire Pressure.”
We did. At which point we noted the furious, tea-kettle-esque hissing sound of air rapidly escaping.
Note that this was an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT RENTAL CAR than the one we had last weekend.

Out of idle curiosity I totaled up the number of days this year I’ve been (or will be; there’s more to come before the end of the year) traveling, according to my calendar.
86.
A month of that is parental visiting (split into two two-week chunks, once in spring, once in fall, as longtime readers will perhaps [...]