Ooooh! Ooooh!  *Raises hand*  I was just thinking about how I would choose to die the other day, so this ties in quite nicely!

( Cut for me being my twisted self. )

So, hokay, I'm back from the housesitting.  Actually managed to get some work done while there.  For the past five years, on and off, I've been working on a novel, Lounge Wizards, an urban fantasy slightly like the Dresden Files, though I hadn't read any of them when I first started writing.  [One of the reasons I stopped was that I thought Dresden ( Read more... )

Kidding.  You are bloody kidding, right?   LUST.  I have an overactive libido.  I'm probably lusting after someone right now.  Oh, wait, lemme check . . . yup.  You know, the deadly sins that had to do with thoughts always seemed to me like a stringent social control.  Especially lust.  You see, see understanding the value of industry (vs sloth), ( Read more... )

Does might make right, in the case of someone having power over others?  98% of the time, I'd say absolutely not.  But if rules are removed, if they no longer apply to you (or if you feel they don't), your sense of what's right and wrong can become awfully skewed ( Read more... )

I feel ugly lately.  Not that I'm in an ugly mood, no.  I just feel really unattractive.  I looked at myself in the mirror yesterday before my shower and just felt repugnant.  That feeling is not being helped by the dreams I had last night, when I was rejected twice by the same guy in different scenarios.  In one I kept trying to talk to him and he ( Read more... )

Yes, I'mma posting this to both my journals. My friends here know very little about my top secret double life, and I want everyone I know to know how I feel about this ( Read more... )

So-o-o-o-o, I was watching a documentary on the Roman emperors today. The first official Roman Emperor was Caesar Augustus, original name Octavian. He tried to promote a clean image and family solidarity throughout Rome, and criticized Marc Antony's drunkenness and affair with Cleopatra before eventually forcing his rival into suicide. But his ( Read more... )

 Some random thoughts ( Read more... )