Good lord - I started this thing ten years ago. I was already working in this job, living in my current house, and eight years clean - so much the same and yet it feels like a lifetime has passed ( Read more... )

The lights are still on, but the place looks different. Anyone here?

It’s about a young, unhappy teenager who ran away to Piers Anthony’s house. Setting aside how amazing it is to listen to the narrator describe fanning in a time before the internet, it’s even more incredible to hear this man describe how he determined where Piers lived, flew across several states, and faced sentry dogs at the gate of the “oracle” ( Read more... )

I'm trying to figure out how the LJ app for iPod works; if you see anything weird from me, it's probably just me trying to figure the darn thing out. Help is appreciated.

(What I can remember of it, anyway...)

Then We Came to the End, Joshua Ferris
Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
Nightmare Alley, William Lindsey Gresham
Too Much Happiness, Alice Munro
After Dark, Haruki Murakami
The Broom of the System, David Foster Wallace
Infinite Jest (really!), David Foster Wallace

VH-1 is rerunning their "Top 100 Songs of the 90s" - hey, cool, the 90s are pretty much when I lost touch with music, right? I mean, the 80s really lasted a couple of extra years and I was clean by the end of the 90s but the middle there - that was my cloudy time. They return from commercial and start with "Sabotage". Okay, I was sort of aware ( Read more... )

The nutshell version is they blocked LJ at work and, despite my being higher on the food chain, the cat gives me hell when I'm on the computer too long at home. (Dear Santa, one laptop, please?) All is much the same with me - I really want to catch up with all you guys. Special thanks to Sam, who keeps sending messages to see if I'm alive.

Finished:

Griffin & Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence, Nick Bantock
Sabine's Notebook: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Continues, Nick Bantock
The Golden Mean: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Concludes, Nick Bantock
3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows, Ann Brashares
Kushiel's Mercy, ( Read more... )

They've blocked LJ at work! When I'm already two weeks behind! So you've missed the completely unexpected drama at work with the guy who gave me the sexually explicit note three years ago. The nutshell version is: I finally admitted to myself and my superiors that I could not work effectively with him, I was immediately switched to another team ( Read more... )

Scene: Tal has had no good sleep Sunday night, having gotten an extremely confusing, terse, and cold couple of text messages from the guy. She dragged herself to work on Monday, but went home a couple of hours early to get some sleep. She sleeps a little too long, waking up just in time to put her hair in a ponytail, throw clothes on, and get to ( Read more... )