Blame Onyx for making me play WoW. Fuck that game's fun, if a bit too XP-happy ( Read more... )

1. Total number of books owned:
I've never kept a count of my books. The answer will always be "not enough."

2. The last book I bought:
Well the last time I bought books, I bought six of them, and I can't remember which one rang up last. For the record they were Diary, Blood Meridian, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Glass Bead Game, The Magus ( Read more... )

My mother sent me a card for my birthday containing a check and a bookmark. The bookmark is metal and oval and elongated, purple with a silver trim, and a pink tassle is attached to the end, held on by a coil of silver. It's not a very manly bookmark.

It is engraved with this: "It is never too late to be what you might have been." -George EliotI ( Read more... )

Stupid convalescing weekend. Made some extra dough working overtime today. I need it.

Now I try to shut my fucking brain up.

Since my schedule's changed I've been having some of the shortest long weeks ever. Thursday already. Next time I blink I'll be 60 ( Read more... )

Two things on the subject of my last post ( Read more... )

It's been a long time since I've been this angry. I'm shaking. I punched my pillow, I punched the shower's wall.

I am shaking. Wound tight like a steel fucking trap.

Breathe. Just fucking breathe.

Mighty Monju: I never thought I'd have anything in common with him
Mighty Monju: but I guess we have that sole communal burden
Mighty Monju: oh wait
Mighty Monju: we both put up with you too
XmittensofdoomX: ahhahaha
XmittensofdoomX: I'm totally laughing out loud righ tnow

So I went to the beach with Dana today. It was cold and windy but clear blue skies hung above our heads with nary a cloud in sight. It was so windy that it felt like a sandblaster had been turned on us a few times; sea foam was being blown from the surf and rolled down the shelled dunes as if, in the words of Dana, "God is doing his laundry!" I ( Read more... )

When I talked to my ex-Beth on Saturday, she told me she'd call me after Tuesday to tell me about the meeting with her recruiter to determine her future Army career, as she spectacularly failed the linguist exam she took last week ( Read more... )