This is what woke me up this morning. Just kidding! My cats woke me up!

( fire-alarm clock )

This is my Intersection entry with my my partner, supremegoddess1, whose entry can be found here.

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What I am about to tell you is absolutely true. I have changed only the names of those involved. The events depicted occurred in the Year of Our Lord 2011, during the month of April. But the road that led me here had been paved six months earlier, in the ( Read more... )

Early spring is when middle and junior high schools take their trips to the nation's capital, where they get to marinate in endless monuments, museums, and history. More importantly, they get to spend a week at the dawn of their puberty with their friends and peers--far, far away from their parents and guardians. That being the case, it is very ( Read more... )

So, as you know from my little art dump last week, I went to the Small Press Expo in Bethesda, Maryland. Aside from the opportunity it gave me to babbly nervously at some artists and writers I totally admire, it really got my brain working, which is a very good thing. Now that I've had some time to mull it over (and, you know, edit and draw stuff ( Read more... )

I went to the Small Press Expo in Bethesda, Maryland, this past weekend, and it was full of ups and downs. The ups came primarily from seeing thousands of people in varying stages of dress (nerd, goth, goth-nerd, hipster, hipster-nerd, etc...) mingling and talking and having a good time together. The downs came primarily because the entire crowd ( Read more... )

I just yelled at a guy and hung up on him mid-sentence. He didn’t do anything to deserve the berating he received from me. On the contrary, he was polite and accommodating, and he listened to every word I said to him. But still I raised my voice and hung up on him and threw my phone across the room (onto a fluffy, comfy chair) because you can’t ( Read more... )

The day before the movers arrived, Magick licked a full pitcher of iced tea so hard it fell over and spilled all over the carpet. All of the frustration and confusion the physical pain of the past few weeks poured out of me that one moment, screaming a cuss word so loudly it would have disrupted a Spinal Tap concert. My neighbors, the teabag ( Read more... )

( Ah, editing, how I love thee. )