Current anime/manga interests: Naruto, Mahoromatic

Nostalgia anime: Gatchaman (but I remember it as Battle of the Planets!).

Current goals: Learn another language, keep writing, and keep my day job, and make it through the day with at least one good story heard or told or read. Bonus points for laughs.

Fantasies: find enough time to watch all the anime I want (until my eyes bleed), read all I want (ditto), and write until my hands fall off. On the Big Island of Hawaii. And maybe get paid for that. Talk about fantasies!

I am so happy and surprised that so many of you took the time to review and favorite my little stories! Oh. It warms the cockles of my heart. (And if you have some constructive criticism, I would appreciate hearing from you. Honest.)

Really interested in the concept of the Thirty Kisses Challenge, but am too commitment phobic to actually sign up and take the challenge. It's located here: http:///30_kisses/profile. (Shout out to Shawny Wong for having posted that. I'm really impressed by people who can commit to things like that.)

I have a great personal affinity for the oneshot - love reading them, enjoy writing them. Why? First of all, what a great word! Secondly, I have that problem with long-term engagements. Thirdly, it's hard getting things down, and then squanch it down enough to say what I want to say and not bore an audience, so I consider it a great challenge. Fourthly, when it's done, it's done - sometimes I feel hijacked by a story and I can't focus on my life until it's done - and maintaining that high level of mental energy and concentration is kind of hard on a person - but if I don't do that, then, well, I lose track of the story and often don't finish it, or will delete it in frustration, or will find that coming back to a story causes a strange break in the mood/pacing and am just unhappy with it.

6/7/11 - So if you don't have PM enabled, I can't reply to a review you've made. It makes me sad. I really do appreciate comments, and I'm sorry about this. (You can PM me if you have comments, please include email if you want me to reply. I try to be very good about replying.)

6/6/12 - The wonderously talented Ama.Amaya-chan has translated "A Booboo" into Spanish. Please, have a look and let her know how great her version is (it's right here on ff net).

6/1/2013. Everything I've ever written is located on Archive of Our Own, under emmykay. There's stuff there that I can't post here.

1/7/2014. The lovely and talented Rami-djan has translated "Mother of Shadows" into Russian. Have a peek and let her know how great a job she's done! It's right here: http:///printfic/1541387/4346670