So, it never bothered me to have complete strangers reading my LJ. But I find something inherently weird about having people who peripherally know me in real life reading this journal without my knowledge. So, if you want to read all about it, leave a comment here. If you're a total stranger, I'll likely add you. If you peripherally know me, I'll ( Read more... )

Read her story here. This woman is a friend of mine. She divorced her (asshole) husband a while back, and has been largely supporting her daughter ever since. (Icky ex provides some support, but not much.) She and her daughter have one of the most fantastic mother-teenager relationships I've ever seen. And if she's gotten to the point where she's ( Read more... )

A couple weeks ago, I left my brand new expensive sunglasses in Ian's car, and he offered to mail them to me. Literally, they were brand new - I'd owned them for less than a day. He sent them, insured, in one of the flat-rate boxes, along with a check to reimburse me for some travel expenses. Today, I went to the post office to pick it up ( Read more... )

My wallet is gone. I very distinctly remember taking it out of my backpack at the gym and putting it into my coat pocket. I zipped my coat pocket and walked to Target. Upon entering Target, I unzipped the coat pocket to take out my phone, as my list of stuff to buy was on the phone. When I got to the register - no wallet. I frantically retraced my ( Read more... )

It took me a while and quite a few detours. But I finally like what I do. I win :)

I just voted. Relative to the eight years I've already been waiting, the four minutes I spent in line at the polling place was negligible.

So, I'm finally done unpacking and hanging curtains and hanging pictures and stuff. If you're curious, pictures of my apartment are ( in here. )

Take a picture of yourself right now. Don’t change your clothes. Don’t fix your hair. Just take a picture. Post that picture with no editing. (Except maybe to get the image size down to something reasonable. Don’t go posting an eight megapixel image.) Include these instructions.


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