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"This is a math rock song about the Algerian War."
As Nablopomo or what-have-you arrived upon us, I thought to myself: maybe I should participate! I remember when I had a full, wide-ranging emotional engagement with this writing space that brought me great pleasure, even though I mostly used it to wrestle with a bunch of unattractive emotions and childish behaviors. I have been spending a lot of ( Read more... ) -
A blast from the past.
This evening, I had cause to visit my first HP-era livejournal and came upon this sentence, describing my ideal fanfiction:
(For me, it's baseball, fisticuffs, protestations of heterosexuality, and menacing handjobs in inconvenient locations.)
Five or more years have passed since I wrote that, but I stand by it today. Thank you God for candle_beck. -
I SEE MOVIES: Away We Go
My special kryptonite as a moviegoer are dead parents and cancer. This is certainly because, in the space of five fairly recent years, I had cancer, got cured, immediately lost my father, and then, more slowly, lost my mother, too. I also know from my own youthful fiction writing that cancer and death are irresistibly dramatic story arcs. So I ( Read more... ) -
Oh job hunt.
The weirdest job interview I ever had was for my first copywriter job. I drove three hours to Houston on a Saturday morning, and when I arrived, after getting lost in a suburb made up wholly of streets named after some combination of the words Babbling, Water, Brook, Rolling, Valley, or River, I discovered that the man interviewing me had been in a ( Read more... ) -
I'm an island of such great complexity.
So I've got a job interview today and have spent the last 24 hours freaking out, you know, as you do. I can clearly remember saying to my former coworkers, about two weeks before I got laid off, that I wouldn't want this very same job under any circumstances, and I guess I stand by that. I wouldn't want it under any circumstances. But I may take it ( Read more... ) -
In the spirit of full disclosure.
Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and ladies, this is just to say that I poured a glass of red wine and immediately spilled it on my white shirt. Lacking soda of any variety to rinse the spill, per the conventional wisdom, I reached for the only available effervescent in my possession: a mostly flat bottle of champagne I opened a couple of weeks ago. ( Read more... ) -
I looked like someone I used to know.
There are certain moments in early spring that get to me. I mean, spring gets to everybody; it's the reason why we have the concept of spring fever in the first place ( Read more... ) -
Meme no. 2 (Of Limited Interest to Serious People)
This is a meme about a Japanese boy band named Arashi, and I expect only two or three of you will even know what I'm talking about, much less care. But just in case you are trying to follow along, I suppose a primer is in order ( Read more... ) -
Untitled Meme No. 1 by font
I'm really sorry about this, but font tagged me for this and others, and here I am clogging up your friends page with content-free content.
a. People who have been tagged must write their answers on their blog and replace any question that they dislike with a new, original question. I forgot to do this ( Read more... ) -
your standard holiday epiphany
My sister and I are celebrating our first post-parents holiday together. Tomorrow we are eating dinner at one of her friends' houses, but tonight, we ended up cooking a whole other holiday dinner ourselves over the course of several hours, as we were preparing the dishes we are contributing to tomorrow's meal. (My sister, like my mother before her ( Read more... )