Welp, as of Friday I am 30. I feel like my 30's will be better than my 20's in general. On Thursday I worked in the morning and as I was driving home in the early afternoon I decided that I needed to do something special and also that it was too damn hot for my late September birthday (95 degrees, ugh). I hated the fact that I hadn't got to go to ( Read more... )

September 15th, eh? Tomorrow Lou and I will have been together for 2 months. Wow, that went by fast. :) In a week and a half I turn the big 3-0. A few days later I start my clinical internship at the sleep lab. Things are still a bit hairy and rough around the edges, but think that the hell that was the first part of this year may really be over ( Read more... )

Brief update: As incredibly shitty the last 6 months or so have been... well, that is how awesome things are now. Fuck yes for new beginnings. Back to your regularly scheduled programing.

In Greek mythology, Cassandra was blessed with gift of prophecy, but when she garnered the scorn of a god, she was cursed so that no one would believe her predictions. While Cassandra foresaw the destruction of Troy, she was unable to do anything to forestall the tragedy since no one believed her ( Read more... )

I was asked to compile a list of my top 10 favorite albums from Champaign-Urbana from 2000-2009 for background for an article. Faltered that I was asked. Here were my choices ( Read more... )

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Time for an update, finally ( Read more... )

Solstice was spent outside trying to tame the yard. I got a lot accomplished. I've been meaning to write a real update. Hopefully will get around to it at some point....

I got my Line 6 DL4 shiny pedal!!! Yay! And the funny thing is that I probably wouldn't have if I hadn't gotten the concussion/black eye.... sorta ( Read more... )

Have I got a story for you guys ( Read more... )