Happy new year, and happy end to decade of evil and disaster. Somebody seems to have put the goddess Hera in charge of this decade: pointless Trojan-esque wars, suspicion and paranoia, scheming and bickering - but punctuated and relieved by some wonderful weddings, and the right to same-sex marriage ( Read more... )

The Noughties are nearly naught, so I for one would like to welcome our monolith-hurtling overlords.

I have a feeling this year will be better than the last. There's quite a few things I'm looking forward to - the return of friends from Australia is one. As a demographics-loving geek, the census is another - though I'm probably alone there. ( Read more... )

Happy Christmas to those who celebrate it, and a belated Io, Saurnalia to those who don't. It's also my fourteenth year of being a Montrealer - I arrived on Christmas Day, 1995 ( Read more... )

So I've got a confession to make - I put the novel through one more edit, and then the first fifty pages through yet another one ( Read more... )

So, yeah. I finished the novel about an hour ago. Not as in, pending another edit. Done done ( Read more... )

So the anniversary-that's-more-important-to-me-than-my-birthday just passed, when I hit the 16-year mark since I came out as gay. I came out at sixteen, so that's almost half my life ( Read more... )

The second request for something outside-the-ordinary in my journal came from infinitecomplex:

"Blog about your plans for the future, and the steps you're taking to get yourself there..."Actually, in a way I do that all the time. But in greater detail ( Read more... )

So, yeah -- today's the 15th anniversary of my coming out. I've always sort of marked this day as a second birthday, since coming out so completely altered the direction of my life ( Read more... )

Time Elapsed for all versions: Two years, three months
Number of pages in the current version: 213 ( Read more... )

I updated my other blog, with yet another historical entry. This one is about France's commoners. I meant to get it up this morning, but wordpress kept trying to re-write my HTML code ( Read more... )