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Ride the lightning
I recently -- say, in the last year or so -- came out as an atheist. I was raised as a lackadaisical Catholic by humanist-leaning parents who taught me to ask questions and think for myself, so it wasn't really a big surprise* to anyone. I had always had a big problem with the Angry Daddy In The Sky model of creation, which got me in trouble in ( Read more... ) -
It's like The Swiss Family Robinson, with more cursing
And another two months passed, and lo, it was boring to tell of so she didn't.
Seriously, so boring. I went to work and ate some food and slept and watched TV shows* over the internet.
Want to know what I didn't do? Um, lets see: finish unpacking. Finish my thank-you cards. Organize my studio area. Get my bike fixed. Have more than one area of the ( Read more... ) -
Oaktown Booty
What's up? I know it's kind of a blog cliché to start your first post in months with an apology for being away for so long, like all three of your regular readers were waiting with bated breath because you didn't tell them how your new job was going. So I won't apologize, though I will say that one of the unintended consequences of getting rid of ( Read more... ) -
Selling My Soul
The moving preparations are many, and daunting, and overwhelming. My first day is one week from now (!!!) so I'm leaving on Monday, and handing the packing and cleaning yet to be done to my husband. Then it'll be another month of separation, as he gathers up our life here, and I look for a new place to live there, and we meet back up at Halloween ( Read more... ) -
Big news, big moves
So.
I have been pretty honest about our job situation here in KC. For the most part, Lo Has It Sucked These Many Years. I have been looking for a better, more lucrative, more satisfying job since last year - but in July, when the Husband lost his position at Local Cultural Institution, we started casting a wider net.
Like, a really wide net.
I sent ( Read more... ) -
Things I've done this week
The Husband left on Wednesday evening, and I've been coming home (or staying home) to an empty house every day since. It's been okay, I guess. I've done some chores and some reading, and I've got some resume-updating to do as well, so I might as well be alone and undistracted. It's a little sad having no one to share my weird thoughts with, though ( Read more... ) -
Trainwrecks
- The Husband was given an unceremonious lay-off last week, slashing our home finances by two-thirds and thoroughly pissing us both off. He got 24 hours' notice that he (and everyone else hired in January) was not going to be staying on after his contract was up --- a complete 180 from what he was told only two days previously WHEN HE SPECIFICALLY ( Read more... ) -
My new grilling technique is unstoppable
Happy goddamn Fourth, y'all! Woooo! The neighborhood was popping with quasi-legal fireworks all day, and at 1 am (when I was trying to sleep off my food coma) there was still a staccato of explosions every few seconds. AWRIGHT USA!!!!
Still, though, I can't complain about the overall tone of yesterday's festivities. The Mister and I took advantage ( Read more... )
