I thought I'd take a moment to update, as it's been such a long time ( Read more... )

I woke up with that uneasy feeling that my dream/s had delivered me to an impossible place -- generally, among people who'll I never really speak with again, but whom I'll always miss ( Read more... )

I am so happy ( Read more... )

I'm $400 poorer because my car needed brake work. And my left hand's fingers are raw and blistered from attempted guitar-learning. So, naturally, I turn to a little diversion here on lj ( Read more... )

I don't usually like New Year's, because it makes me sad to so finalize the conclusion of a year.  Though I know time's really rather arbitrary.

Still, this past year was one of the craziest I ever lived through.   I kept thinking I'd certainly wake up, and discover people weren't so strange/cruel/downright absurd as they seemed.  I lost a few " ( Read more... )

... though I'm not a huge football fan, I sometimes can be.  Hard to explain.  I don't practice it like a religion, but it's nice to "root root root for the hometeam" (yes, I know, borrowing from another sport).  And the University of Alabama has always been the hometeam, as long as I can remember.  I even had one of those little cheerleading ( Read more... )

Robert has passed away - my first betta fish and pet/friend that I acquired when I moved to the basement apartment in Homewood, two years ago Nov. 1st ( Read more... )

I'm just about to finish up Wicked, and it's got me thinking back on the original Wizard of Oz.  (Incidentally, this book and the halftime show - Baum's characters are really becoming a weird, integral part of my daily thoughts.)

Unfortunately, I think it's been over a decade now since I read the orignal.  I also read the second book in the series ( Read more... )

Alright.  I confess - I gave in and made a myspace account.

It was kind of fun to set-up :).

I really will do constructive things again, I keep telling myself.  But not until one more week of freedom....

That is all.  Just had to confess.  I feel so much better now.

"After two World Wars and the Holocaust and the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and after the Roman games and after the Spanish Inquisition and after burning witches...shouldn't we call it off? I mean, we are a disease and should be ashamed of ourselves." - Kurt Vonnegut

Apparently, Vonnegut was interviewed on NOW (on PBS) today - and ( Read more... )