I have formally been accepted to matriculate at my alma mater. I'd pretty much accepted that they weren't going to take me, at least not until fall. I got the letter today; classes start Tuesday. I've missed much of orientation but I'll get myself a zipper (someone to help "zip" me into the life) and all will be fine ( Read more... )

I went up to the Portland area for christmas week. Actually, I went to run away from home for christmas week, since there was going to be unwelcome company at my house.
. Regardless, that part of the world is Home to me, and it was nice to go up there and just ... be. Someday I will live there again ( Read more... )

It's time to come out of my sorta-self-imposed exile and take a look around at my environs... 2003 will henceforth be known as "the lost year of the couch potato" since that's about all I was able to do. The short story there is that I was victim of seriously debilitating side effects to Lipitor, the cholesterol drug that the TV says is magic. ( Read more... )