Is It True? You're Sober Now?
Indeed. I have unspecified liver issues that could be anything from a reaction to antibiotics and Advil use, to autoimmune hepatitis (basically lupus moving into my liver), coupled with heavy alcohol use, so my doctors have ordered me to quit drinking. It's unclear to me if they told me this because any quantity of ( Read more... )

I took this from villagecharm, who took it from someone named wantedonvoyage who I don't know.

Class of: 1997

Class size: 43

Did you know your spouse?: No, but if I did, I almost definitely would have had a huge crush on her and been ruthlessly friendzoned..

Did you car pool?: Not that year. I had my license and drove my dad to work and then ( Read more... )

So I've worked at my employer [world famous non-profit] for close to 15 years now. I've worked here for a number of reasons which I'm not going to rank in any particular order, but just list.

• I actually like my job.
• I actually love my coworkers
• The perks of working at a place for years (vacation, sick time, etc) really start to add up
• They've been ( Read more... )

The only guy here on Livejournal who I've actually met in person, villagecharm, is heading to Belfast in a week or so, and that lead me to pull out my archive of photos from my trip to Belfast back in 2002. Back in the day when everyone took photos with film (rather than just purists who talk about the grain of photos or whatever it is that film fetishists ( Read more... )

One of the first music blogs I started following was Fluxblog, and at this point it's one of the last music blogs that I bother paying attention to. I don't follow their song a day, or even a song a week, but they put together a year end review of 10 discs (obviously, no longer put out on discs) that's a reliable year in review of the music that I ( Read more... )

As I may have mentioned here or elsewhere, I'm taking advantage of my illness to go through the detritus of a life I have in paper. I've just hit my archive of letters, birthday cards, and printed off emails. All the stuff my biographer would love to find if I had a biographer, or ever would have a biographer. And my first thought with all this ( Read more... )

I've been crazy about books my entire life. I mean, I love reading, and I always have. I was the kid reading through lunch in school, not really paying attention to the fact that I wasn't eating with friends that I didn't have. But I also was a little crazy about books as objects. I would go to lengths to make sure my books didn't get beat up; I ( Read more... )

It's a snow day, and a sick day, and I'm all over the place. I'm cleaning out my files, basically sorting all the detritus of my life out into separate boxes. There's a lot; I assume I should keep all my tax return stuff, of course, but do I really need all the medical bills from my hospitalization from 2008? Probably not ( Read more... )

I am a sick person. I'm a spiteful person. Surprisingly, there's nothing wrong with my liver.

I am sick, though. And it's hard to talk about, because I don't want to elicit sympathy from people. Or, at least, I don't want to look like I'm trying to get your sympathy. But I gotta talk about it. So I undershare and then overshare ( Read more... )

1. What did you do in 2016 that you'd never done before?
A: I don't think I did anything new at all. Apparently I'm at the stage where I'm just doing what's comfortable and reassuring.

2. Did you keep your new year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
A: My resolutions were resolutely low-key. I wanted to go to more movies with my ( Read more... )