Coming back on and what do I see ( Read more... )

In a complete fog this morning. Aside from my normal mispellings and typing issues ("teh" for "the" and the like) I have added "ben" as "been" and "me" as "my" and "wwwwwwwwwwwwwwww" as, well, me falling asleep at the keyboard with my hands in typing positions ( Read more... )

So, I have been through the various designs for journal styles and have come to the conclusion that the only way this journals begins to look the way I want it to is either by becoming a paying member or...all right, so really that's the only option.

Journal needs an overhaul. Any profile suggestions?

So I have had the Plague off and on for several months now...since the beginning of last semester actually. Well, Mr. Sickboy on his horse came back again four days ago and stole my voice. On top of that, he apparently thought it would be amusing if he clubbed me out of my senses last night so I wouldn't hear my NPR alarm, thus making me miss my ( Read more... )

Hello again all! Yes, I'm back, or will be attempting a return, to active journaling starting now as I have been told that I need to either post or die. Well, perhaps it was not quite that dire, but I am at least under threat of being de-flisted, which has already happened in a few cases. I may need proper encouraging words, pokes or outright ( Read more... )

Last night I awoke with a start, wet with sweat in a tangle of blankets. My dreams had unsettled my state of peace. In them, the sun was high in the night sky orbited by Alpha Centauri. I sat on my porch, watching a cardinal bang itself repeatedly on my window. It was desperate for something. A short while later a friend from high school came to ( Read more... )

"So, I know I have had a full week to absorb and process Obama's deafening election to the highest office in these United States, but I still get choked up when I see an American flag, hear people speak his name in public or listen to Edith Piaf...not sure about the last one, but I think it has something to do with realizing I can finally go to ( Read more... )

"Yes we did. I have not taken a breath in the past eight years as sweet or as memorable as the one I took at 292 this evening. For once in a very long time I can be an American in love with and proud of everything this country has stood for in our two centuries of nationhood. I wept and when I opened my eyes I realized that something profound had ( Read more... )

"Nerves. Frayed and stressed nerves that will last all. day. long. Welcome to Election Day! After the last two elections, I am in a constant state of fear that something is going to go wrong; that America will prove me right on my opinions of the general intellect of your average Joe Plumber. Call it Pavlovian. I, thankfully, took care of my civic ( Read more... )