I can't help but notice that lately, much of the news I am hearing is making me sadder than usual. Maybe I am just paying better attention. Sometimes, it is not even the news, but the reaction of a certain demographic of people to the news. For example, the whole "Santa is white" fiasco. The reaction to that made me so sad ( Read more... )

So, I had to open the shop this morning. I don't open often, which is great, because when I have to I get anxious that I am going to sleep through my alarm and not open the shop and then my shift partner will come in at 8:30 to find a still closed shop and an angry mob trying to rip the newspaper stand out of the sidewalk and throw it through the ( Read more... )

I like to write fiction. Kind of. More like tiny vignettes. I wrote this a while ago, but I think about it often and have been feeling this way for a while. It is an infomercial selling perfection. It isn't great, writing wise, but I think many people focus on attaining some imposed idea of perfection. We can kind of buy it. What if we could buy it ( Read more... )

Well, hi there Livejournal. It has been, what? Three years now. You look great.

I have a sudden and pressing need to start blogging again. I am not particularly tech-savvy, and Blogger confused me and messed with my Google accounts so, I am back. The prodigal blogger (?) has returned.

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I finally finished my Mary Baldwin application to the MLitt/MFA in Shakespeare and Renaissance Performance program (meep). It is being put in the mail in 15 minutes when I leave work. So, pending GRE scores (to be taken in March) and transcripts (should arrive there in 2-3 days) I am done with that process. I figured, I might post some photos from ( Read more... )

So, on the road to attempting to become a "real artist" some of my work is now up for sale on www.printsandpieces.com ( Read more... )

Worse than the total agony of being in love?

No. There is not much to top it.

I have so much work to do.

Guys, I should be a doctor. I was right about everything. I have a 102 fever and strep throat. Am I good or what ( Read more... )

I know American Idol is over (and YAY Taylor won!) but I was just reliving the hotness that is Ace Young singing "Father Figure". I don't care how much of a loser it makes me, when the man sings "warm and naked" I die inside JUST A LITTLE.


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New Johnny Depp themeage going on at my journal.
Please check it out and tell me what you guys think!

I am liking the way the background turned out, even though it isn't the picture I wanted to use.