My mom's cancer treatment is going well and the doctors are confident that things will turn out for the better. My family is back to being very happy and concerned with dumb stuff like business, work, school, and very intentionally not caring about egypt (tl;dr I have a lot of egyptian family and the volatile politics of the region has frustrated ( Read more... )

I got this book for a dollar in a second hand store. I wanted it for it's cover, which featured an image I found funny and weird. It would seem like a wasteful purchase to buy a whole book just for one image, but then again it was only a dollar. The content was dated and, even when it was new, very niche. As of today, a book like that would have a ( Read more... )

I skipped sleep last night. I wasn't busy or working hard or anything. Insomnia runs in the family and it's effect is so well known among my kin that they colloquially named the putative gene that causes it after our family name. I'm lucky in that I don't have to force my insomnia to bend to my schedule. If it's time for me to be nocturnal then I ( Read more... )

So there's been a lot of nerd conventions in my life recently. My old rule was only go for free. If I payed to attend like a chump then I'll be one of those weird con people. I was safe as long as I only loitered on the convention grounds or got free tickets somehow. But last year I paid money to a con, albeit at a discount rate, and broke my vow ( ( Read more... )

Yesterday I was out for a walk and I passed by a crow eating another, recently dead, crow. Further on I saw a modem on the grass by the side walk with what was clearly a pile of feces layered atop of it. Even further down and I saw a t-shirt with an image of the moon on it, also with feces on it. I take these to be omens.

So this is it. My penultimate challenge in life is to survive being given exactly what I spent my whole life wanting to have. At this moment everything is better for me than it has ever been. I have no reason to complain about anything ... but I still don't feel right. It has become evident that my state of well-being, self-esteem, and self- ( Read more... )

I almost saw a dude get run over just now by a motorist speeding through a crosswalk. But I didn't shout or yell or try to alarm anyone. I just sat there watching as if I was ready to accept any reality I was presented with. I was okay with watching some innocent guy get squished by a car and I was content to politely watch it like it were some ( Read more... )

Sometimes it feels like there is no future. It feels like I've been told that I'll be dying in a week and that I'm not allowed to have any fun or to tell anyone else during that time. So I have no option but to continue to go to work knowing that nothing I do will have any impact on anyone, I'll never be able to enjoy anything, and that in a few ( Read more... )

A friend of mine is an avid trap. That is a crossdresser. He's hetero, has a girlfriend, and really likes women's fashions. He's entered a contest put on by la senza. Women who enter the contest are voted for online and then high ranking contestants are presumably judged by someone affiliated with the contest. Together his friends have watched as ( Read more... )

I went to Anime Revolution today. I went dressed as bullhorn from the black dynamite animated series. Two people knew who the character was. Everyone else thought I was gay mario. I can live with gay mario ( Read more... )