Life happened. I took a bye. Heck, the second one I actually couldn't even get online to POST a bye. But I'm gonna ask myself later why I didn't have topic posts for it, so this is the placeholder. About to start work on Topic 5. Woo!

So, my house is a house full of not-straight people. And accordingly, we have fur babies to keep us in tune with the 'natural' order of things. We lovingly refer to them as '2 of 6' and so on down the line, having adjusted from '2 of 7' last summer, when the oldest of the bunch, Stella, passed away. She was 16 ( Read more... )

Tonight doesn't have any real reason to be bad. I worked hard, got a lot done, hung out with Jon, made plans to see Nick on the weekend, even had a running joke about breakfast for dinner with M and M, who made fun of me because I don't put syrup on anything but breakfast sausage (we had French toast ( Read more... )

When I was a child, I devoured books like they were food. And when I ran out of my own books to read, I'd run through my mother's library. Though now I can recall that she had mostly mysteries and a few romance novels, she had a few of the old hardbound Readers' Digest condensed books. One of them contained a story that I have yet to read in full, ( Read more... )

The funny thing about speed reading is that you let your mind fill in the spaces as your eyes drift across the page. At least, that's how I do it. At roughly 700 wpm reading, that's a LOT of blur for the brain to make sense of. Of course, when you're reading something predictable - or at least, somewhat predictable - it makes it easy to skim ( Read more... )

Far be it from me to criticize your choice of marital aids or otherwise happy fun time toys... but your door is wide open and I can see it lying on the floor in the middle of the room. This isn't to say I was looking in your doorway. Oh no, I just came upon this as I left my own room since, as I said, your door is wide open.

What a day. What. A. Day. I literally had to stop three different times today and say to myself (audibly, no less), "You cannot afford to not have a job." It was like people either took stupid pills today, or asshole ones ( Read more... )

Greetings and salutations, fellow competitors! And to all you out there who are just voting, please help yourself to the complimentary cookie and alcohol (whichever your preference) bars, just across the room. Oh fine, I suppose you fellow competitors are welcome to some as well ( Read more... )

Gay. Kinda.

Fat. No, really, fat.

Musical.

Effulgent (joyfully enthusiastic).

Employed.

Single.

Nerdy.

Kinky.

Lonelier than I thought I'd be at nearly 33.

Heaven help my sanity over the next x months, but I'm doing it. Final season of LJ Idol, here I come.