I don't know how to start this off. I don't know how to finish it either. I sit here in my chair in front of my computer, making a mental review of the events that have thus far decorated 2008, as I enjoy a nightcap of the best herb the pacific northwest has to offer... gazing occasionally back behind me to make sure the half-naked goddess in my ( Read more... )

Goddess, how I missed Seattle ( Read more... )

Yesterday was my last day of work at the Fresh Market. Two days before that, I was forced to file a harassment claim against my boss (harassment, in this case, being defined as any repetitive behavior that makes an employee feel discriminated against, ostracized, unappreciated, ridiculed, and generally reluctant to come to work; it’s not like he ( Read more... )

Life is a strange sort of balancing act. Most times, I can’t decide whether it maintains itself regardless of our actions, or if we ourselves maintain it through constant internal struggle. Humans and the world we occupy can be at times compassionate, and at times savage. Just when one seems to dominate, the other declares its need to be ( Read more... )

So it comes down to this at last ( Read more... )

Long time, no post, I know ( Read more... )

I don’t think I did what I was supposed to do when I was born into this world. Somewhere along the lines, I learned the wrong things. I could swear I was told that I could be anything I wanted to be when I grew up. They should have been more specific, because I took them at their words and became the one thing they didn’t tell me was forbidden ( Read more... )

The day before yesterday, my roommate informed me that she wanted to use the other half of my basement as a rumpus room and time-out chamber for the obnoxious and bloodthirsty kitten she purchased last month (yet doesn’t have time to care for). Yesterday after some thought I tried to veto the idea, not only feeling that it wouldn’t teach the cat ( Read more... )

Work a day, get a day off, then work a day, then get a day off, then work a day, then get a day off… this has been a pretty good week, schedule-wise. Still, aside from completing two more Nevenzor chapters, this was the most uneventful Independence Day weekend in Dave Miller history. A far cry from watching fireworks displays all up along the ( Read more... )

Patience is the ultimate test, and perhaps passing that test is how you win the game, but how do you know when you’re finished? One cannot say, “I’ve already been patient!” without demonstrating impatience. It’s much like ending a brag session with the phrase, “And I’m modest, too ( Read more... )