... not blogging as much these days, but here's the latest news ( Read more... )

Am alive stop Been terribly busy with school and work stop Will write when less busy and have something, anything worth saying stop Feel free to email me though folks stop

Yesterday in my Family Counseling class I discovered that I have a paper on Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake due in two weeks; there's a mid-term in between which I also have totally blotted out from consciousness, but which doesn't concern me terribly ( Read more... )

I started work at Rushford, the rehab in Middletown ( Read more... )

TJ gets out of the hospital today. He went in a little over a week ago for psych-related issues - I guess he was on the wrong meds or something. Last night at the meeting Gay Keith, a friend from the rooms, gave me a little more background on TJ. His father is abusive and commanding/demanding. Mom, as I knew previously, is suicidal (literally). ( Read more... )

As presaged, it was on day four that I almost cracked. Though, funnily enough, it wasn't about food: it was coffee.

I first noticed this curious feature of the fasting on the first day, actually - how much I really didn't care about not-eating, or even not-smoking (which struck me as even more odd), but rather, the fact that what I craved most was ( Read more... )

At least, I assume it's Ramadan. I didn't actually see the moon last night myself, but it appears that somebody some place on the East Coast did, so I'm just gonna go with that ( Read more... )

My symptoms as follows ( Read more... )

Irvine Welsh fans: good news.

They're making a film version of the final short-story in Ecstasy.

If you haven't read it, you should. It's a lovely sick & twisted romance story that I adore (and not just because Welsh found out a way to write exactly what it feels like to be on acid).

I hope it's good. Trainspotting was well done (better than the ( Read more... )

Compiling a bibliography of children's fantasy books. Looking up a pithy synopsis for James and the Giant Peach in the library database, stumbled across this:

"A picture book based on the film version of Roald Dahl book in which a young boy escapes from two wicked aunts and embarks on a series of adventures with six giant insects he meets inside a ( Read more... )