But first off, I did something a girl I knew freshman year was shocked that I--a Renny child--had yet to do, and I got my own bodice ^^  I was sized last week and was looking at the patterns in that size range today, found a nice, vaguely shiny light blue one with a black pattern on it that contrasted nicely with a black-and-red Japanese scarf I've ( Read more... )

Such was the question my barista friend asked me when I went there yesterday after work.  (I've been working a lot lately, which I won't mind because it at least reflects well on my paycheck, haha.  Been feeling a bit tired the past day or two, though--I'm too well acclimated to being a night owl as well as an early bird, and it's not in my natural ( Read more... )

I have superstitions about hair, leaving shoes with the soles facing up, and cleaning things counterclockwise. Anyone else?

Because I wanted to post it this weekend, but may not have it fully revised by the day's end, so here's some bait in the meantime:

( Not the only fishing metaphor in this chapter. )

People I was hearing last night were actually family members of my girl roommate, who's not moving out but is moving essentially all of her furniture to her grandmother's place down the street.  I spoke briefly with her uncle and grandmother before I left the house last night, then sent her a text asking if she was moving out, receiving the above ( Read more... )

Like, some dudes, a little kid and someone he calls "Dad."

Could it be my roommate's moving out?

Basics on the guy: nice guy on his own, but he's a total bro, he leaves his hyperactive Jack Russell (which seems to be a breed designed for going to the bathroom in the house) behind when he travels for work, lately without bothering to tell anyone he's ( Read more... )

Totally stole this from akai_senshi ; I haven't done one of these quiz things in a while:



Funny.

Sister drama, o sister drama. Or sisters, because the Saga of Young Sam-Sam got its own Grendel spin-off. Haha, though I totally can understand why my other sister's frustrated/pissed off. I shall not touch it here but I was on the phone briefly with my father ( Read more... )

That shit being that of my youngest sister.  Particularly when it starts upstaging shit it has no right to.  She pulled some shit last month that wound her up in a behavioral health clinic for about a week and a half, and since it was nearby I was the one to pick her up the day she was released.  The biggest thing I did on my birthday was take her ( Read more... )

As in, I don't typically write (fiction) in the first person, and most--most, though certainly not all--things that I read in the first person, doesn't really impress me.  Mind you, I've read some pieces that were treated in first person and they were excellent.  Walk Two Moons, The Vesuvius Club, and Mary Gentle's Ilario books are a few examples ( Read more... )

Violent dreams.  Three nights ago I dreamt that I beat a vague acquaintance into a coma by accident, then wound up talking on the phone to her mother crying offering my insurance I think.  Then two nights ago I dreamt that a bunch of people were knifed in front of the bar in Riley; another batch of people were under bloody sheets up by the corner ( Read more... )