It's been three weeks.  Three weeks since I realized that the bottles were empty and I'd need to get more.  Three weeks of putting off the phone calls or e-mails, then finding out that I needed to go somewhere else.  Three weeks of descending, slowly at first, then picking up speed like a cart at the top of a roller coaster.  Three weeks without ( Read more... )

Andrew Koenig was found dead in Vancouver. My heart goes out to his family and friends. Walter Koenig's site is down, probably from people coming to offer their condolences. That's where I (think) I first saw this ( Read more... )

Well, I made it through another round of LJ Idol. It was a Gatekeeper round and those always make me nervous because I'm not certain how the Gatekeepers feel about my writing. If I were to base it on the comments I got, I think it was a well written essay (and thank you, everyone, for your well-written comments). And I was happy about it, which ( Read more... )

The scene: A get together of friends from a message board I frequent. While we've talked together, becoming close through the words we right, this is the first time we've met face to face. I'm fairly popular on this board, known as a flirt, a sweetheart, a geek, a joker... I'm a little bit of everything to everyone. And when we all meet, I try ( Read more... )

I've been reading over most of the posts made thus far and each one has brought me to a similar fear.
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