It's been a year and KatRita still has the power to give me the shakes. Because of this and this only, I stand by Nagin's rather controversial rebuttal to the question of why New Orleans is still pretty much in disrepair after a "year" of "recovery". Yeah, it was crass, but you have to understand. New Orleans has not a full year of recovery ( ( Read more... )

Whoa. I've been away for awhile. I apologize for that. I've been extremely and unusually tired of late. I went to bed at 7 the other night - SEVEN and I didn't get up till I had to get up for work the next morning (i.e. 7 am ( Read more... )

This weekend I:

Cleaned the House
Washed my Car
Posted a shitload of stuff on ff.net and fictionpress
Bought Kallee's b-day present

And . . .

GOT THE SCANNER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HOLY SHIT!!!!!

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU --

THANK YOU ALL
to Azurite, Janime Lee, cutieme4u, and SamanthaI'm just awed and grateful and so many other things I can' ( Read more... )

Whew. This week has been one huge stress ball of energy. Let's begin with the BIG NEWS.

I've been home as of last Sunday - in other words I've been home (with INTERNET) for a whole week WAHAHAHAHAHA. angelica_love and kelkatan know this as they were the first to get the news . . . on the night I moved back in. As for my prolonged absense in spite of the happy ( Read more... )

To view the Rita adventure, go here:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/guardian_kysra/2005/10/03/

Apparently, lj did not want me to post it under TODAY's date >-<

- Kysra

This epiloge, I'm proud to say, is being written from the house of yours truly in the room of yours truly. God, my room's a mess. But since I haven nothing remotely interesting to say as I've spent yesterday unsuccessfully Christmas shopping and today simply packing and unpacking, well . . . I think it's high time you guys got the play-by-play of ( Read more... )

Well, Friday I was terminated from Halliburton *sniffles* And I'm on the job hunt even worse than before. Somehow, though, I don't feel as stressed as I did about it ( Read more... )

I'm at work though my termination date is slated for tomorrow if the requisition Candace sent out to make me a permanent employee doesn't go through ( Read more... )

Since I am located in Terrebonne Louisiana and not New Orleans, Houston, or Galveston, I am reasonably certain none of you know what the hell is going on here in my humble neck of the woods. I am in less than good spirits so I'm warning you now that this will be a very depressive, pessimistic post ( Read more... )

Well, I ended up sleeping afterall when I realized the thing wasn't making landfall till today (that and I was pretty much brain dead all afternoon and night). I got up at 2, 3, and 4 to check if the water was rising and . . . couldn't see shit. Ah well ( Read more... )