Apparently I didn't lose access to my account after all?

I have laid around today, caught up on emails, cooked ...it was glorious.

I am starting a fic. Tonight's part can be found below. 
( In the caves )

In the Mass, we pray for those who have already met their deaths. In the traditions that I grew up in, there was very little emphasis on this. How can I tell you, though...it gives me some peace to know that there are those prayers every time the Mass is said. Sometimes, you do not know your friends have died. It is some peace knowing, at the very ( Read more... )

My father had a kind of folk superstition about the direction one should orient the body when sleeping. For instance, I think he said that the head should not be oriented downhill or in the direction of the nearest source of running water. I don't think the feet were supposed to point towards water or downhill, either. As I recall, it was not ( Read more... )

Journalism on the mortgage crisis annoys me. "As many as one in four houses may now be underwater." Now, does that mean that one in four houses with a mortgage is underwater, or does that in total, one in four American houses is underwater? What does that even mean, if it is the latter? Believe it or not, not all American houses have a mortgage. A ( Read more... )

I am outlining for my NaNoWriMo novel... The outline veered away from me...at the moment, there is less sex that I originally intended... but the sex that is there is *much* more kinky than I originally intended. Well, you do the best you can ( Read more... )

Instead of giving in to the consumeristic impulse of buying organizing racks do this instead: on getting rid of stuff.

Modern architecture: basically fantastic, but sometimes you suck your breath in and say, "now that's just ugly." http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/real-estate/skylights-windows-of-house-bierings-archdaily-098070

http://kateharding.net/2009/10/08/guest-blogger-starling-schrodinger%E2%80%99s-rapist-or-a-guy%E2%80%99s-guide-to-approaching-strange-women-without-being-maced/

This a very, very insightful piece. As someone who has had bad experiences with men in the past, I'm telling you, this is very, very insightful.

Have a read.

"...is said to be as lonely as it is beautiful. " What the hell is this supposed to mean ( Read more... )