When I was a kid - I'm talking elementary school, even junior high - being successful was a huge deal to me. I was the perfectionist, the kid who kicked himself because of a stupid mistake on a test that caused him to walk away with a 99 instead of a 100. The kid who would read chapters and chapters ahead of the rest of the class in his science ( Read more... )

I'm jobless, battling writer's block fiercely, and probably going to be getting braces sometime within the next few months. I've lost numerous people I really cared about in the past year, and my extended family seems to be getting steadily crazier and crazier. My best friend is too depressed to do much other than talk about how depressed he is, I' ( Read more... )

I am very, very tired of being lonely ( Read more... )

So...today was kinda awesome XD. That's all, really.

So despite the events of late, I'm back onto LiveJournal again. Or, rather, I'm still here; it's not that I didn't think I would be, since I've decided I'm determined to keep my head above water, no matter what. Instead, let me just say that I'm in better shape than I would have imagined I'd be, mentally and psychologically. I haven't found myself ( Read more... )

So the funeral's over. Now I just have to get through the burial in the morning. Hopefully, the hard part's over and done with.

This week, I've had the usual Eberron game - complete with warforged hijinks, a heavy metal soundtrack, and more fodder for Drake's ever-expanding diary file - and the World's Largest Dungeon game - where we once again survived against the odds, and my half-celestial changeling cleric/sorcerer possibly decided on his next new form to adopt. I also ( Read more... )

I got the strangest urge the other day. I decided I really wanted to write a romance story ( Read more... )

I want to write tonight. I know I should be - Altair and Ciela probably miss me. But even though I want to, I don't feel that I can. There's definitely something in the way, and I can't really put my finger on it ( Read more... )

Usually, one might expect to see more words in that title, such as "Memories Redux" or "Pirate Robot Attack Redux," but I didn't think it was necessary this time, for reasons that are about to become evident. I took a good long look through my LiveJournal last night(I actually think I may have read over just about every entry I've ever made over ( Read more... )