Shadows of Amun Plot staff were notified that we had been thrust into a terrible situation Friday of last week ( Read more... )

Tired ( Read more... )

You needed two bombs,
black backpacks, nails and shrapnel
to express your rage.
I only need one candle,
one match, to defy your dark.

PSA: I cut my hair off to a length it has not been since 1990.
It does not touch my shoulders.

I did 25 pull ups this morning.
10 of which were unassisted.
15 of which were on the machine that supports part of your weight.

My arms now feel like useless noodly appendeges. 

So, I just want everyone on my Friend's List to be aware of the following. You can make your own judgement on these things, but I thought I should say something, since this is timely.

You know that neurological incident that put me in the hospital?  The one that looked like a stroke?  
Near as my Neurologist and I can tell, it was caused by the anti- ( Read more... )

I am eating dinner at JD's by myself at Birka on Friday night.  Glass of wine. Swordfish sandwich. 
It is the calm before the storm. I have packed HRM Quilliam off to dinner with Duke Icefalcon and his household for as much Brazillian BBQ as he can eat and I am savoring the downtime.

I hear a quiet ringing in my ear. I realize that I am still wearing ( Read more... )

startling awake
from sheet tangled horror
the smell of fire
of wood, hay and acrid hair
lingers in my nostrils

my closed eyes still see
sheets of skin sliding off flesh
lurid orange glow
horses staggering to knees
begging for help I can't give

I had a dream this morning where I met Ceinwen (Countess of the Middle) in the center of a mostly deserted town, so that we could travel together, away from the zombie apocalypse. We were going to meet dagmarhalvdan who had prepared a safe place for us, in a castle on the other side of some border. Along the way, in the middle of a fight against those zombies ( Read more... )

I read this article and found it fascinating. As a quick overview: Sissell Tolaas is a chemist and a professional nose, only rather than working for a perfumer she is more of a scent artist. Allow me to quote from the article:

"Tolaas created a small device that collected the sweat of twenty-one men with severe phobias during their panic attacks ( Read more... )