I will admit I don't know if this is a concept taken from the work of Joseph Campbell, which for a student of screenwriting is a bit like a kid in divinity school admitting he doesn't know if the Beatitudes are taken from the Gospels, but there it is ( Read more... )

This is the walk I did to unwind:


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I can't remember the point of writing this.

I received my stimulus check the other day, $533 because that's all I paid in taxes last year. Most of it is going to the suit I bought months ago (and am still having tailored -- second time's a charm?) although I did do a little splurge along the lines of this and this.

More soon?

HAPPY [belated] BIRTHDAY, taj_mahal07!!!

Happy birthday, cat_mom!!

May you turn another year older without the slightest shred of dignity and never act your age!


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I have often thought it would be fun to make a list of supposedly rejected slogans for the agency where I work. Near the top of any such list would be the oft-repeated classic "Simple operation, total disaster ( Read more... )

I figure it's time for an update. I'm making some progress with my big spring clean, which is to say I've made it through my dresser, a closet and most of a second and third closet. What can I say, I have a lot of closets. (Please insert your own obvious closet joke here ( Read more... )

I am probably (probably?) not a totally well-balanced person. I have taken of late to waking in the middle of the night anxious, almost panicked, because I have too many things.Boxes of books I haven't read, will never read, CDs I will never listen to again, clothes I won't wear, collections of photos, notes, ticket stubs, business cards and the ( Read more... )

Last Christmas (or was it the Christmas before?) an ex of mine asked me to take care of his two bettas while he went home for the holidays. While he returned to L.A., he never came back to my apartment to collect his fish ( Read more... )

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MINA!!!


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