Inspired by this discussion at Pandagon and countless others like it, I've drafted a bingo card for dating discussions. (For those of you not familiar with the concept, it goes like this: you mark off a space when someone in the discussion makes this point, and the first to get five in a row "wins."  For particularly trite conversations, players ( Read more... )

Today is a very good day.

It's been six months since I got the courage to send an email to kerikeri thanking her for some comment she made on the American Idol forum of Television Without Pity. I don't think anyone could have predicted how well that would have turned out.

Also on a less personal and disgustingly cute note, the Interactive Fiction ( Read more... )

(The icon is from a photo we took on the trip; Keri came up with the tagline.)

It took a while, but here's a belated account of my trip in late August to visit kerikeri again. It's kind of haphazardly impressionistic because my recollection isn't exactly chronological.

( Southern California wants to be Western New York )

So for the past few days, I've been in Pittsburgh with kerikeri. (Her account of the trip is here.) Here are my impressions of the trip now that I'm back in California:

( Act I: Plane Rides, Sandman and Nuclear War )

"ALISON MARRIED KEVIN! I AM FINE NOW!

"Married her junior high school sweetheart. Kissed me on the bench, kissed Kevin on the bench, married Kevin. This is great! This has got nothing to do with me. This is fate, this is destiny. It is beyond my control, beyond my fault. I love this!"

We now return you to your regularly scheduled journal.

Once again, LiveJournal has turned into a depository for every quiz I see.

( Let the sparks fly )

Okay, here's another attempt at restarting this journal, now that my site at Columbia has been taken down.

From a recent conversation with Jessie, the top 5 incidents I wish I'd handled differently, opposite sex version:

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