I've created a new blog at http://noldoaran.wordpress.com. It's bare bones, and I haven't posted anything yet, but I'm going to work at filling it out over the next few days ( Read more... )

( The Dull Ramblings of an Even Duller Writer Struck with a New Idea )

You were never quite the sharpest tool in the shed. You've broken three times before with different problems. But, my darling, you picked a hell of a time to go kaput, when I need to be making long calls, checking voicemails and looking for texts. I wonder why. Today my mom called you, then I checked the time. And somewhere between downtown ( Read more... )

"Packing a Musket"
by Jerri Blank

When you work from your home
and Johns call on the phone,
you're a call girl.

When you walk till you limp
and give a cut to a pimp,
you're a street whore.

When they're begging ya "please,"
to get down on your knees,
near their groinage,
scusa me,
but ya see,
don't ya touch
where they pee,
without

I am positively obsessed with Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke. My roommate C gave it to me as a Christmas present, and I was finally able to get to it a few days ago. I swiftly pushed for it to become my new book club's first book to discuss but have been unable to slow my pace while my three friends get their copies and begin ( Read more... )

Someone, a girl I have never met and only friended out of a sort of duty or reluctant pity, became quite irate when I sarcastically attacked the effort to help Haiti amidst a status update whose true intentions were to sneer and complain about Facebook. Instead of polite disagreement, she called me selfish, something that, of course, called me to ( Read more... )

I just finished a mass trimming of my Facebook life. Of people I know I'll never talk to again. Of people I never want to talk to again. And of people I want to talk to again but shouldn't ( Read more... )

and I'm sure I won't finish it like most things I start. And I'm okay with that ( Read more... )

Dear Life ( Read more... )

Because the media tries to convince me I should be charitable for a week or two, probably because it's being leaned on by the gov't who is trying to distract me from the greater problem like, oh the continuing conflicts in the middle east, or the fearless leader's low approval ratings.

And I don't even read/watch news that often.

End Rant