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Bastille Day 2013
Yep, once a year ( Read more... ) -
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I find myself coming back to this stupid old thing once a year. I should come more often, as not writing for fun has seriously impaired my ability to write for not-fun. I really need practice stringing together thoughts to produce some coherent piece of writing, if it is born of bitchiness ( Read more... ) -
Another decade passed, and other assorted maudlin crap.
December 10, 2001 ( Read more... ) -
Tennessee Homesick Blues--a therapeutic rant.
My adolescence and early twenties were marked by a complete hatred of the state of Tennessee, and the south as a whole. This afternoon, I'm thinking about and verbalizing why this was so. I'm certainly not engaging in these activities for the first time ever, so perhaps I should say that I'm trying to figure out why, despite my fierce love of ( Read more... ) -
Seditious relationship flotsam.
I was talking to a friend in Colorado on Gmail chat the other afternoon. She's one of my more recent best friends. We met in 2006, but I didn't really get to know here until 2007, when I was her internship supervisor at Big South Fork ( Read more... ) -
My choice?
I didn't choose to be conceived by a twenty-one year old U.S. citizen in 1981 ( Read more... ) -
If I knew any songs about Irkutsk, I guess a line would go here.
There's probably several hundred to choose from in the Russian language, but I guess I'll have to content myself with western ignorance for the time being ( Read more... ) -
Time to resurrect this thing.
Logging into LJ just a minute ago, I felt as though I was walking into a bar I haven't been to in ten years. It feels right, but something is wrong. I've made at least one post a year since 2005, which is roughly when I stopped composing LJ entries in my head to amuse myself throughout the day. And what a shame. This LJ has been therapeutic on so ( Read more... ) -
Non, je ne regrette rien. En particulier, les femmes dans ma vie!
For what am I grateful? Well, with a well intentioned suggestion (aka advertisment) from Nature Made Bakeries, I guess I'm supposed to say bread. But since they asked, selflessness--a quality I rarely, if ever, possess ( Read more... ) -
Non, je ne regrette rien. articularement les femmes dans ma vie!
For what am I grateful? Well, with a well intentioned suggestion (aka advertisment) from Nature Made Bakeries, I guess I'm supposed to say bread. But since they asked, selflessness--a quality I rarely, if ever, possess ( Read more... )