* If you went back to age 19, would you make the same choice of college major/career again? Why/why not ( Read more... )

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Back when the rocks were cooling, and I was still young enough to touch my toes without having to be taken apart and reassembled, upright, by a crack team of orthopedic surgeons, I went to work for Waldenbooks, running the SF/Fantasy section at one of their busiest mall locations. As an unexpected "bonus" of that job, I was gifted with the ( Read more... )

So, celtfiddler, your LiveJournal reveals...


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I didn't know Anna Nicole Smith, other than a face and a body on a screen and in a magazine. I never particularly cared for her, 'though I sort of admired the way she often seemed to care so little for what others thought of the way she chose to live. I liked the fact that she was willing to put it out there, even when she wasn't the "perfect" size ( Read more... )

So, November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo, for short). I'm thinking about trying it again this year. For once, I don't *seem* to have anything majorly time-consuming on my plate that month, for the first time in three years, I'm only working one job, and a lot of the self-destructive/distractive behaviors that have kept me from ( Read more... )

So, we had a *second* absolutely beautiful North Carolina day. Which was lovely. Windows down, wind through my hair, wishing-I-had-a-convertible bliss ( Read more... )

Holy crap, that last entry sounded like some kind of cheesy-ass commercial, didn't it? Sorry about that, sometimes my exuberance gets the better of me ( Read more... )

Aside from the great fun of being constantly surrounded by electric violins that barely look like violins at all (or look like violins not at all, from electric violins made of high-tech polymers and kevlar/carbon fiber composites (for gigs in *really* rough clubs?), to those with five, six, and even seven strings, there is the amazing coolness of ( Read more... )

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