That's right, bitches, I will now be sporting a totally awesome shirt from IZZE. I'm so excited :) My winning entry can be found here, or go to www.izze.com and click on win a t-shirt and then contest winners.

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so i'm being deployed to atlanta for the red cross tomorrow night. i'm excited and nervous - to be expected, i s'pose. if i take a few deep breaths i know everything's going to be fine and this is what i'm good at and what my heart tells me is right to do, but i can feel the voices in my brain reminding me of the hard things i dealt with last year ( Read more... )

sometimes i come home and put my things down and close the door behind me, and the pressure sucks the door back, and i jump ( Read more... )

once upon a late late hour i was floating in the sea, warm and twinkling inside and out, my eyes not vital to taking in my surroundings. closed or open, they registered the same - that i need not look to see. i found myself facing the horizon when i wasn't facing up, but it made no difference: it was all an endless expanse of gray meeting gray ( Read more... )

argh. i'm having one of those days/weeks where i feel like a failure at just about everything. i know it's just horomones and circumstances, but all the same i really just want to have a(nother) good cry and hide for a while ( Read more... )

sometimes all i want is a hug from my mom. or a phone call. or a letter. i usually talk to her once a week, but that still doesn't sate the occassional urge that we should communicate outside the regularly scheduled program. don't get me wrong - my mom and i are close; but there are times when i wish she were close enough to hug.

sigh.

so i've been sucked into this knitting thing full force. this afternoon i gushed over my first successful scarf with the ladies at picasso's moon and picked up new yarn while i was there. i've been home less than four hours, and i'm already halfway through with the new creation. on the last scarf i mastered the yarn over and the drop stitch; this ( Read more... )

My house has the internets! We're all, like, 21st century and stuff now ( Read more... )

My pirate name is:

Mad Morgan Flint


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1. i'm writing a collection of short stories. please ask me how i'm doing on this periodically, so that i feel pressured to keep writing ( Read more... )