My wife says to update this here Journal, so here is my update. Things are going Ok, although we are homeless, and I only get 3 hours per week at my job. We are living in a shelter, my wife said to add this and wants to know if I want her to update my Journal. Anya is going to Headstart, and hates when mommy and daddy leave her there, my wife says I am a dork. She does get over us leaving her at school quickly (<----- My wife typed that.) my wife says. She keeps calling me a dork, I don't know why,though, plus she keeps laughing at me. Am i funny and dorky? Or what? So anyways, this is my update. Is this good enough wifey pooh? She said yes, so I will update when she tells me I need to again. Bye for now.

http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/11/amazing-audio-things-and-pictures-no.html

For those of you who missed it, here's the NPR "Open Mike" piece I did on audiobooks... You can listen to it here, or download it, or email it...





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I was reading the book "Coraline". I finished then told my parents about it. I was wondering if this book has any religouiseness to it. I tried, but only found what you've writen so i'm hoping you can tell. Just curiose

I don't think so. Although I think people bring religious points of view to books, and read them from those perspectives.

You sounded good on NPR this morning, so good you need your own radio show.

If I sound good, it's because Maeve McGoran, my producer, and Barry Gordemer, the editor, did such a sterling job. Finding the time to make this, to do the interviews and put it all together, took months. I'd love to do more radio, for NPR or for Radio Four in the UK, but I think it will always be little one-off projects. But I loved doing it.

...that a person who cooks is called a "chef-er". So, for instance, when he helped make pizza tonight he and I we both "chef-ers."

It's so cute that I haven't tried to correct him.

Tonight is the first day in weeks that Tenzin hasn't spent several hours in his Jedi costume.

I should not be surprised. And yet, every year I am...

I have a nice short commute, only 1 junction on the M3, but in the 20-odd minutes it gtakes me to get from A-B I always come accross missing headlights. Sometimes a single light, even more fun when its both...

A few years back I nearly smashed into someone at 2AM on the motorway because they had no rear lights what-so-ever and were driving at 30-40mph on an otherwiose dark and empty bit of the M25... Which put the wind up me a tad...

It always strikes me that the vast majority of these vehicles have one thing in common.

They are all relatively new cars. With those nice super-bright headlights, and quite often quite decent cars that one would realistically expect the lights to last as long as, oh I dunno, my 10 year old car that has never had to change a bulb (yet)...

Maybe its is a case of the old Blade Runner/Tyrell quote in action, but I really find myself cointinually amazed at just how many people seem to be getting away with it, often quite dangerously (IMO).

Bloody annoying.

http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/11/bit-sad-but-it-ends-with-toast.html

I went to Boston and spent Thanksgiving with Amanda and her family. It was wonderful. I spent any spare moments reading comics for a book I am guest editing next year. (This is a photo of us on the pavement outside her house.)Now I'm home. Typing a blog entry, listening to TV Smith's Live CD.

marindade

1 c olive oil
1/4 c lemon juice
3 cloves of garlic, minced very fine
2 T dijon mustard
2 T dried oregano
1 t dried thyme
parsley (2 T fresh)
ground pepper
1 t dried rosemary



dressing

1/4 c + 2t olive oil (not ev or v)
3/4 t garlic powder
3/4 t oregano
3/4 t basil
1/2 t pepper
1/2 t salt
1/2 t onion powder
1/2 t dijon mustard
1/3 c + 1 T red wine vinegar

mix all, let sit over night.

Here's what I have been doing/feeling/thinking between yesterday at 4 p.m. and today at 4 p.m. Time is on a 24 hour clock, so 13:00 is 1:00 p.m., 16:00 is 4:00 p.m. etc.

• 21:48 Been home about 2 hours....would ya believe I'm hungry!?! #

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Note to self. While it may be immature, it is amusing to pretend to use the force when walking through an automatic door.

However to pretend to use the force whilst driving is silly and will get you nowhere...

A few years ago on a 4th of July weekend I was eating a pretzel which helped a filling fall out of my mouth. I won't go into gruesome details. Since then that tooth has been crowned and root canaled. Today, on a holiday weekend when I am far far away from my dentist, the crown has either cracked or chipped while I was eating pretzels.

Can't sleep of course.. yay..
Got some perspective after spending the day with my mom and sat here at 3 am writing a little letter to my dad telling him I love him and am thankful for him. It's not that I don't love my mom.. but she just disappoints me at times.

On a side note.. I am very glad I have a doctor with a sense of humor. Yesterday I emailed and asked if me bloating up so much was an ok thing or not.. because even when I hardly eat anything I end up looking like one of those starving kids from africa. His reply was something a long the lines of "Hmm no that's not ok, unless of course you are a starving kid from africa and haven't told us yet."

I lost my best friend.

At her memorial Bodhi had said something about each day that passes is another day further away from the last time he saw her. I wonder if this pain will ever truly dull permanently.

Guess what? You can totally do that! It's totally allowed. It always has been and, check this out, it always will be. Nobody is trying to take away your right to do that however often you want. Everyone is completely and totally fine with that. It's like if I had a bumper sticker that read "I demand gravity!" Mission accomplished already!

It's like if you go into an ice cream shop and want a plain vanilla ice cream cone. That's fine. Everyone's okay with it, in every ice cream shop in the country. The people who like other ice cream flavors don't want to take away your right to buy vanilla ice cream, nor do they want to smear their ice cream on yours. They're perfectly happy to eat the flavors of ice cream that they like and let you eat the flavors that you like. And that's good for everyone who likes ice cream. And guess what, it doesn't make your vanilla taste any less vanilla-ey to let other people eat other flavors. Not a bit. It doesn't affect you in the least.

So good job. You've got what you asked for. Try not to look so angry all the time.

not even an hour here and she is already making me feel like crap for things I shouldn't feel bad for.

I loaded my Christmas music on my MP3 player the other night. But that did not actually mean I wanted it to start playing it...Still, I did use the opportunity to streamline some of the track-listings to remove the so-so tracks that you keep skipping when they come up.

@ The new BBC time-travel drama 'Paradox'. Is there a department at the BBC that goes through all the crappy ideas that didn't work last time (aka. 'Crime Traveller') and juggle the ideas around to see if they work better again...

Police Unit, Time Travel, Former Eastenders actor... Again...

and lying in bed last night, suffering an unusual bout of insomnia listening to the wind, I finally drifted off wondering where the hell Jimi Hendrix thought he could hear the wind cry 'Mary'...