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Finally shutting this stupid thing down. What am I, a fifteen year-old in 1998?

As soon as I finish archiving the crap on here. It's downloading now.

Good bye, LJ.

I can't remember the last time I enjoyed myself. I guess tennis. We played tennis a few times this year and that was fun. I don't think I'll be playing tennis for a while. Steph kind of lost interest in it.

We planted a tree yesterday, which would have been nice under other circumstances.

I don't hate every individual thing. There are legitimate moments of beauty and wonder in this world ( Read more... )

This story made me think.

http://www.themarysue.com/valerie-dorazio-online-harassment-chris-sims/The way I understand the story is this: Chris Sims is a comics blogger who now has a gig writing for Marvel. Recently it has been brought to light that he was (by his own admission) an inappropriate asshole to Valerie D’Orazio, writer, back in the 2007 ( Read more... )

I think I finally have an idea for "the followup to OtakuBooty" that I'm excited about. It's wacky, and it sounds dumb, but I think I could make it work.

But right now, I'm hovering on the edge of a panic attack. First time in twenty years or so.

I don't actually have friends any more because I am a bad friend. It's my fault. There are a lot of good-hearted, generally-amazing people out there who cared... and I drifted away.

There are people who like me and care about me, but there's nobody I'd feel comfortable calling up to hang out or just listen if I'm having a rough time.

Good news: Almost nobody is out to get you.

Bad news: There is a lot of apathy out there.

The world's not out to run you over with a truck... but it's not necessarily going to swerve to avoid you, either.

When it comes to happiness, I've learned to divide things into two categories.

1. Obstacles to happiness. They say money can't buy happiness but that's only half right. Lack of money can certainly prevent the fuck out of some goddamn happiness. A lot of things are like that. A nice pair of shoes won't make you happy but a horrible pair of shoes ( Read more... )