when I moved to Florida and got my new driver's license, I registered to vote here. back in Wisconsin, you don't have to pick a party in order to vote in primaries, which I think is pretty excellent, but because Wisconsin and, like, Kentucky or something are the only states that do this, I was apprehensive about registering here. I figured I had to ( Read more... )

this evening Bethany happened to find a newly unearthed cicada crawling around our lawn. it was meant to happen, clearly, because she was following a baby bird that ran under the yew bush, and then her eye fell upon it. tonight was thus gripped with cicada intrigue.

( cicada pics! as taken by Bethany's fabulous Nikon )

I've never done this before but I'm cutting folks from my list I don't talk to, have never talked to, have stopped talking to, don't feel comfy confiding in, didn't really like in the first place, with whom I've felt grow a little gulf of chilly, or, most importantly, never ever comment on my posts anyway. if I'm mistaken in removing anybody, leave ( Read more... )

okay, I've been going on and on about this custom pixel LJ moodset business in my blog and over on my deviantArt site but it's time I wrote a solid, public block of information about my commissions--terms and conditions. so here goes!

I will draw a basic custom set of fifteen animated mood icons for $30. a "basic set" consists of the fifteen basic ( Read more... )

Love? said the Commander.

That's better. That's something I know about. We can talk about that.

Falling in love, I said. Falling into it, we all did then, one way or another. How could he have made such light of it? Sneered, even. As if it was trivial for us, a frill, a whim. It was, on the contrary, heavy going. It was the central thing; it was the ( Read more... )