Over the previous weekend, my younger brother had a life-threatening and rather disquieting medical emergency-- the kind that has me calling a bunch of doctors on my end, because what happened to him very obviously should have happened to me instead, and actually it's now clear I've probably been dead already for at least five years and everything ( Read more... )

Earlier tonight I made a rookie mistake I've been waiting to make for a few weeks now: posted a reply on one LJI account while logged into another. This is also not the first rookie mistake I've made this season. So the jig is up.

dont_be_first and crafty_callie were related experiments brought to you by lossfound, aka the_day_setup (Season 8), mc_lji (Exhibit A, self-shitcanned), acalculatedname (Exhibit B), and ( Read more... )

4/16/14: For those who have never read this entry before - I have since admitted who I actually am and what I was trying to do with the initial character of Callie. The below entry was written in several stages "as Callie," all of it written before I'd predictably blown my own cover while answering comments here under the wrong account. You can ( Read more... )

Even with all of the byes, I have read so many good entries this week! I don't know that I'll sit down and do this very often but I just wanted to mention JUST A FEW of my favorites that are struggling before the poll closes ( Read more... )

I know that I'm really, really lucky in a lot of ways. My husband makes enough that I don't need to work to help the two of us make ends meet, and he's really been very generous with his income in all the years we've been together.

I'm not saying I don't get pretty bored not working, though (there are only so many seasons of Portlandia on Netflix ( Read more... )

Back when I was in college, I played bass for a couple years in a band called Girlilla. Yes, that was our real name ( Read more... )

"I'm starting to worry that you may be perceived as lacking a sense of humor, Stephen."

"John, that's utter rubbish. My rapier wit is surely evident to anyone who's ever heard one of our songs."

"If they're into Wilde and view him as the cutting edge of comedy, perhaps. Otherwise, Stephen, I'm not too sure you've got much of a funny bone myself ( Read more... )

Hi, I'm "Callie." That's not my real name, but it's pretty close. I've done LJI before; it's been a long time and I didn't make it too far, LOL. I haven't used my real LJ account much in a long while, and I've been really missing LiveJournal. I recently saw that this would be my final chance at doing LJ Idol... so here we are, I guess. Decided to ( Read more... )

Not sure why we need a signup post, but here I go!