The irony (if that's the right word) of relationships is that when they are going right I feel as I have discovered the secret formula or just got lucky and happened across the right combination to the safe. When they sour and crash and burn, as they always do, I am reminded of how shitty I am at maintaining them and futile it seems to even put ( Read more... )

1. I left work just before 6 tonight. Despite the fact that I put in almost 9 hours I felt as if I was leaving early. That's just not right, on more than one level.

2. Charles Ardai, aka Richard Aleas did it again, he got me. His second novel, Songs of Innocence, ends in an even more dark and twisted place than the first one, Little Girl Lost, did ( Read more... )

1. I'm still not ready, nor sure that I ever will be ready, to jump back into the world of online dating. I'm enjoying the two scrabble and cribbage meetup groups. I get some of what I need in the way of social interaction from them ( Read more... )

Very cynical, but I love it: Pearls before Swine (May 13, 2007).

I've got a date this weekend. Still not sure what we're going to do, but it'll be my first date (first or otherwise) in a couple months so I'm giddy and nervous ( Read more... )