I haven't been here in a long, LONG time. And I can't say that I am apologizing for that, because I think that the time away has been good--for me, and maybe a little for you, too ( Read more... )

Wow--you guys went wild here today, didn't you?

In considering all the things surrounding the Boob Project, and in reading all the objections to it, I don't find that many people have hit on exactly what disturbs me about this whole thing.

( A little story... )

"We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are."

-Tobias Wolff

"Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little."

-Plutarch

"If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, ( Read more... )

Sometimes I find myself wittering away about stupid shit--work shit, or LJ shit, or food_porn shit, or shit that I see on the news that annoys the crap out of me. And I know that I can pointlessly whinge away with the best of them...I know that I can turn molehills into mountains and irritation into drama ( Read more... )

"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
- Danny Kaye"

Some things have to change.

We are in that process.

The extent of the change will be in direct correlation to my own level of need for change...plus, if history is any indicator, two or three points beyond what change I think I can bear. Because when it ( Read more... )

There's a whole lot of hoohah going on about Six Apart and the latest chapter in its little course of Ineptitude 101 ( Read more... )

"objective ( Read more... )

For a long time, I had been taking Rt 422 to work ( Read more... )

Donna came over last night, to accomplish our annual Yule exchange, where she gets a plate of cookies and I get some wonderful, tiny, eclectic treasure that sang my name to her.

( Why I'll always love her, no matter what... )

In the last post, bayarts points out that there are many, many reasons for people to have a Live Journal, and many different levels of acquaintance that comprise a "friend's list".

The term "friend's list" is, I think, unfortunate--not because it's altogether inaccurate, but because it sets up expectations that may or may not come to fruition. But at the ( Read more... )