Okay, we technically had the first day of spring a while ago, but it's actually lovely and sunny right now, tomorrow is Easter and thus the Day of Bunnies, and there were wildflowers growing beside the street, so I feel very springy at the moment ( Read more... )

Obama gets another four years.

First woman with a disability to Senate. First openly lesbian woman to Senate. First Asian woman to Senate.

Senators who say things like "legitimate rape" ground into the dust.

New Hampshire has an all-women house, senate, and governor.

Two more states allow same-sex marriage.

MN did not add a ( Read more... )

I have a kitty cat and he is cute and his name is Percy and I just got him this afternoon but he's already curled up with me purring and I love him and eee.

( Peektures! )

You know, once in a while--far more often now that I'm getting treatment--I find myself getting worried about something different: "Is this hypomania? Am I wrong--am I actually bipolar? Is it normal, feeling like this ( Read more... )

Wow, I was not going to do this but apparently there was a serious and personal post in me just waiting to come out.

( srs meeblings about depression and stuff )

I spent the last two days with theredoormouse, mostly at the Mall of America. I can report that she is not a 57-year-old fat man pretending to be a twenty-something student, and she can report the opposite for me. :D

We went to see Sherlock Holmes again (I would totally have sex with that movie), went to the MoA aquarium where we discovered that Mouse is the ( Read more... )

Okay, okay, so it's like the first week of actual winter-y winter, but man, I am so over this Minnesota business. I want to live on a sunny beach where an attractive cabana boy brings me fruity drinks with little umbrellas every hour. The cabana boy doesn't even have to be that attractive, actually, although the umbrellas are not negotiable ( Read more... )

I was going to do this long post about how in spite of my recent whiny tendencies (and aside from my financial fears) I'm actually feeling really good lately. But it got a little too "True Confessions" and whatever, so I will give you the short version.

I have been writing like this:


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In no particular order, and not necessarily having any basis in my life at the moment ( Read more... )

I had such a nice weekend! Friday was a snow day, so I went home early(ish) and I e-mailed my draft for Writers' Style. (I'm not actually sure where the apostrophe goes. I'm not sure if it's plural or not.) Then we went to Old Chicago where I had a delightfully mediocre calzone and an absolutely wonderful Turtle cheesecake. (Made with real ( Read more... )