Comments | sevenstar: I'm not dead... yet.

sevenstar

I'm not dead... yet.

Mar 14, 2007 00:37

*grin*

Been over a year since I wandered through the door over here. Long time, no see.

How have you been?

- Áine

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lupagreenwolf March 14 2007, 04:47:30 UTC

Hey there :) Long time no see! Well, in a nutshell--married to teriel and still madly in love; living in Seattle, moving to Portland in the next couple of months; A Field Guide to Otherkin should be out in a couple of weeks; still making artwork and ritual tools; and still hopelessly addicted to LJ :P

sevenstar March 14 2007, 04:49:59 UTC

And still busy as heck, too, I bet. :)

Book's coming out in a couple of weeks? Cool! Can't wait to see what it looks like.

lupagreenwolf March 14 2007, 05:05:32 UTC

Of course! Though in need of a little R&R--been way too hard on my body lately, and I may end up taking a bit of a sabbatical after the move if finances allow.

So will we get an update on you, or is this just a random "Hi, I'm alive" kinda post?

sevenstar March 14 2007, 05:41:24 UTC

Well... it's been a year, and I've spent most of it keeping a column over at Newsvine, and have managed to work my way into becoming one of the top columnists over there. The site gets about a half a million unique users per month, so that's not too shabby, eh? I also created the Help Group there, so I answer a lot of questions and stuff.

My son, the Marine, is very likely headed off to war sometime this summer. So, we have to get busy and make that stop ASAP. :)

I'm still in love with the same person I was a year ago, and things are better than ever. *big grin*

I'm pushing for hearings on the Sibel Edmonds case (FBI whistleblower). And I've been corresponding privately with her on a somewhat irregular basis. She's a very nice lady, and I do think she's telling the truth... something we all need to hear about ( ... )

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arethinn March 14 2007, 05:12:25 UTC

Another nutshell: Went to Canada for six months, couldn't get enough work, came back to California, trying the immigration thing the other way around now that I have full time employment here again.

sevenstar March 14 2007, 05:43:37 UTC

I expected to hear that you were there and living happily ever after... Long damned process, eh? Stupid bureaucracy.

arethinn March 14 2007, 06:14:29 UTC

It was fun, but the area where he lives doesn't have enough population to support a high turnover in most job fields. Even together we couldn't get "moving-out" wage. I decided to cut losses and come back here where there are lots more job opportunities, both for me in my academic/service type thing, and for him even not having a BS CompSci (which in his town is de facto required, since one of Canada's major universities for that degree is right there - so many people have it that if you don't, they don't want you). Even so I am $15,000 poorer than I was at this point last year. *shrug*

sevenstar March 14 2007, 06:20:59 UTC

And even if he had the BSCompSci, he'd still have to be Whiz Kid with straight A's to compete with all the others there. :/

You might be poorer money-wise, but richer in many other ways. I kind of have to think of things in that way... it makes me a very wealthy woman when I do. *grin*

rhiannasilel March 14 2007, 19:23:11 UTC

Hey, how's it going? Was wondering if you were still around.

sevenstar March 14 2007, 19:47:37 UTC

Yeah, I'm still kickin'... mostly doing news/politics these days (but actually, I've been doing that for years on various sites).

Latest update: Newsvine is coordinating with NewAssignment.net in a project called Assignment Zero, that has to do with Citizen Journalism. We're just getting organized at this point, since the announcement just came out a couple of hours ago.