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New Song: Keris' Guitar
The year after keristor was killed, I purchased a guitar that belonged to him at the Filk Fund auction. It took me two and a half years to write this song.
Still not OK.
Lyrics below the cut tag
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New Song: You Don't Look Back
This song surprised me by making me cry when I performed it. I am quite a seasoned performer, and I really, really don't cry onstage. It was ... odd.
Lyrics below the cut tag.
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New Song: Gwyneth's Dream
This is the one about the Second Life roleplaying game. Lyrics below the cut tag.
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Some of you will already have seen this link, but here are some photographs from our trip to Tenby.
This is a link to my iCloud Photo Journal from our trip to Tenby, Wales, over the bank holiday weekend. It was a great trip.
Tenby, 4-6 May, 2013The link should load pretty quickly. For those of you who won't want to click through, we had a great room, Tenby is lovely, we saw seals and birds and great sunsets and sunrises, and I always love ( Read more... ) -
Whew! Bullet dodged.
I almost posted something serious and potentially controversial here, but then I realised people commenting on it all would just make me feel like shit, so I deleted it.
Sorry; my trust level is pretty low at the moment.
It's hard to re-open my life for discussion. I just really don't talk about important things to anybody but filceolaire and alpacaaddict anymore. -
In lieu of screaming, I offer the following list of links.
Please do not even think of commenting on this entry unless you have read and understand the first link. Seriously.
21 Things To Stop Saying Unless You Hate Fat People
Big Fat Blog
Why I'm Fat Positive
The Body Impolitic
This Is Thin Privilege
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The late shift, the chest cold, and the enduring value of chicken and chips
I had to work later than usual tonight. Not that I'm complaining: it's the only night of the week I ever have to work late, and I don't always have to work late. But the body makes habits, you know? My body's habits are incompatible with managing somehow to sleep until 9am except on days where I don't have to get up at all ( Read more... ) -
A recap.
For the many of you who have more of a life than I do and cannot be bothered to play the home game, here are the headlines from the last year.- I outlived my father (Spring/Summer 2012).
- I got a Master's Degree. Seriously, they just sent it to me in the post. It has a stamp and a seal and everything (Summer 2012).
- I changed job roles and locations ( Read more... )
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Things I Am Worried About Today, In No Particular Order
- That strange noise from the bathroom was more than just the drying rack I tripped over falling forward.
- My cat hates me.
- People I like hate me.
- People I don't care for all that much hate me.
- Strangers take one look at me and hate me.
- By having all the colour cut out of my hair, I will get to experience the joys of being discriminated against both ( Read more... )
- That strange noise from the bathroom was more than just the drying rack I tripped over falling forward.
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I had a flying dream
It was the weirdest thing. First, I was in trouble for not going to rehearsals with this orchestra I was playing with that was actually a bunch of kids in their teens and twenties. I have no idea what I was doing running around with these children, but there you have it. I seemed to see the director as some sort of authority figure. I may also have ( Read more... )