In case anyone was wondering why I'm writing this book of mine... well... here's part of the reason, which I discovered in Charleston.

( WARNING: possibility of tears beyond this point. )

Back to work!  :-)

Boredom reeeks.  (It also, apparently, rots your brain, as I had to rewrite the first word four times to get the proper spelling.)

Boredom carries with it a stench--not an actual one, obviously, but an imagined one--that permeates everything.  I think that's why people shut up in houses or rooms for too long go mad.  I think it's the cause of "cabin ( Read more... )

...to my novel.  The one I'll write when I can spend copious amounts of time in various Virginia archives.  I read it to Mom and she said it sounded like a great idea... but I don't know.  Like so many of my pet projects, I'll probably never finish it.

“A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.”

-Thomas Jefferson

For ( Read more... )

I'm leaving livejournal as I don't really use it anymore and when I do it becomes a source of contention.  Nobody looks at the g-d damned bloody fuckin' thing, anyway, so why should I keep it up?  And the main reason I would come back to lj--i.e. a beautifully fantastic story by another user--has, I'm convinced, fallen completely by the wayside.  ( Read more... )

I'm writing a novel.

Yes, I know.

I've been attempting for years and every one that I start never gets finished.

But I think I might get through this one.  I'm taking a cue from Mary Higgins Clark and trying a historical fiction.  Fiction because the evidence just isn't there to make it non-fiction and it gives me a bit more wiggle room.

I'm not sure ( Read more... )

I haven't posted in a while, so I guess I felt I should.

And may I state that the Office of Residency at my school is full of cock-sucking fuckers?

Yeah.  That's really all I have to say about it.  Except that I'm calling a lawyer and suing.  Bastards.

OMG! I found the bestest Halloween cartoon EVER MADE!!!

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Anyone else remember this cartoon other than me? I used to LOVE this one... I felt so sorry for the pumpkin. HE CRIES PUMPKIN SEEDS!! How cute is that???

WAHHHHH!!!

I sent him an ultimatum, which he hasn't been stupid enough to test me on ( Read more... )

I don’t deserve this.  I don’t deserve to have to live through this waking nightmare… this living hell.  I don’t deserve to be made so afraid to open my door, to answer my phone, to open my email  I don’t deserve it.  I don’t deserve it.

It’s not my fault.  It’s not my fault that this has come back to revisit me.  It’s not my fault that he ( Read more... )