After a month or two (or more) of emotional turmoil (after way more sources of chaos that I have had to deal with at once, for years), I think that some time over the last few days I hit a mix between an exhaustion wall and boredom with the turmoil ( Read more... )

(I haven't written something like this in a long while. I try to limit my completely self-absorbed Livejournal postings to no more than one a year - this is that one. It's more an attempt to process than anything else, some expression to help lead me to where I am trying so hard not to go.

Sorry. Grieving is kind of a self-centered process.)
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I've just unfriended a number of folks who didn't have me listed as a friend, without a whole bunch of discretion exercised. So if you're wondering, that's why. If I was unfriended by accident, just refriend me and I'll catch up with it.

[This note is now orphaned - Facebook fixed the problem with my note hosted there, which is a better place for me to maintain it.  If you read this and have any suggestions regarding 1st and 2nd Doctor stories for an audience that is looking to hit the highlights, please speak up!]

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I fajl at Livejournal.

I am mostly posting knee-jerk thoughts, musings, and other reactions on Facebook these days,

I have a couple of thoughts that might turn into longer essays here at some point, but this LJ porch light is only barely on.

My Facebook, by the way: http://www.

Heya Pittsburghish friends! Um, which of you are still in Pittsburgh? Beccane and I are taking a break from the triple-digit temperatures of Texas in the 'burgh this week and would love to see lots of you! Post here or mail me, but let me know!

So what the CIA calls all of its, "we're trying to get as close to torture as we legally can" techniques (and what the Gestapo called "verschärfte vernehmung")1.

Enhanced Interrogation Techniques

EIT.

1 - Godwin's law doesn't apply when you're discussing techniques that actually appear in Gestapo interrogation manuals.

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I really would have expected to see somebody on my LJ friends list crowing about the Iowa decision by now. Mark? Regis? Surely Tom would ( Read more... )

Sometimes when you have the TV on with closed captioning, you see changes between the script ( Read more... )