JillDragon

One of my favorite authors, Anne McCafrey, passed away yesterday.  It's perhaps not a shock because I knew she was an elderly woman, but that doesn't really lessen my sadness. She was an extremely influential author being one of the few women writing sci-fi way back in the late sixties.  She opened the genre to other women writers and she also made the genre more open to female readers. I first started reading her books in Grade 5 when a friend introduced them to me.  They were some of the first 'adult' books I read and we always got a thrill out of reading about dragons and spaceships when everyone else our age was reading The Babysitters

I got a job!  I just got a call to say that I'll be working part-time at Chapters bookstore - I'm so happy that I'll no longer be unemployed and broke. ^_^ |Watch Me|My Gallery|My Scraps|My Stats|My Watchers|Journal Creator| ~dajc-s1 (https://www.deviantart.com/dajc-s1):icondajc-s2::icondajc1g::icondajc2g::icondajc2g::icondajc2g::icondajc2g::icondajc3g: :iconquestionstampplz::iconquestionstampplz2::icongivechocolatesplz::iconchocolatesplz::iconteastamp1plz::iconteastamp2plz::iconnosubbystamp-plz1::iconnosubbystamp-plz2: :iconcanada1plz::iconcanada2plz::iconCoconutstampplz::iconCoconutstampplz2::iconyourstupid1plz::iconyourstupid2plz::iconcancer1plz::iconcancer2plz: :ic

First cold of the winter - blah.  At least it's the weekend so I can stay at home in my pjs and drink tea all day long.  It doesn't exempt me from homework unfortunately.  :sick: :tea: I'm getting the hang of my (as yet nameless) shiny new HP Pavillion laptop.  I still need to download GIMP onto it, but then I should be back to editing photos and posting them here on DevArt.  I've got some really nice ones too (at least in my inexperienced opinion). |Watch Me|My Gallery|My Scraps|My Stats|My Watchers|Journal Creator| ~dajc-s1 (https://www.deviantart.com/dajc-s1):icondajc-s2::icondajc1g::icondajc2g::icondajc2g::icondajc2g::icondajc2g::icondajc3g: :iconquestionstampplz::i