You can talk about the Vernal Equinox and say this is the first day of spring, and maybe it is - somewhere that isn't Providence. Our temperatures are a little warmer today, currently 45˚F, with the windchill at 37˚F. Not a sprig or green or a flower in sight. And brutal cold returning next week, with lows in the teens ( Read more... )

Sunny this morning. The temperature is currently only 43˚F ( Read more... )

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I am pretty much sick as a dog right now, thank you very goddamn much Mister Quetiapine, alias Monsieur Seroquel. That is to say, I am making another attempt to get off this shit. I slept maybe, maybe four hours last night. And now I'm enjoying the marvels of four nights of shitty sleep, plus the side effects of discontinuation. And trying to work ( Read more... )

We've been creeping back towards summer weather since Arthur passed by. Today, the high is forecast at 84˚F. It's sunny, with a few scattered clouds. I can stand to be under a sky like that.

Please have a look at the current eBay auctions, which are making it possible for us to pay an unexpected vet bill. Thank you. I very much hope that the copy ( Read more... )

Originally posted by faustfatale at On Cynthia Nixon, Bisexuality and Sexual "Likability"
After all the online hullabaloo, actress Cynthia Nixon has clarified her recent controversial "gay by choice" comments in the Advocate. As a fellow no-respect-getting bisexual, I'll admit I was stung by her statement: "I don't pull out the 'bisexual' word because nobody ( Read more... )

Outside, it's 80F and feels like 81F. Inside, 80F. Balance, kiddos ( Read more... )

How does one forget that she's supposed to be in Manhattan on Tuesday? That is, she forgets until almost the last minute, and...it's all pretty embarrassing. But I do. Have to be in Manhattan tomorrow, to see my agent and visit with Peter Straub and so on and so forth. I think it's a matter of inertia, the forgetting. The objects remaining at rest ( Read more... )

Hot now in Providence. Summer arrived (again) a couple of days back, and here in the House, we are sweltering. Dr. Muñoz tries to keep us coolerated, but he is such a very small droid and it's such a very large old House. But, still, I am glad for the heat. All that rain and belated March was wearing me more ragged than my usual raggedness ( Read more... )

Thought I'd share the gift from faustfatale that was waiting for me when I woke up this morning. Pretty much the first thing I saw. Every day should begin that way. Thanks, Iphy.

Oh, it's behind a cut, just in case any folks of the prudish persuasion are lurking hereabouts:

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