So have a bullet-pointed list of what's going on in my life, since I haven't been on here in forever:

1. C. and I are now both unemployed, since our company decided one day late in August to declare bankruptcy and can us all. Thanks for the advance warning, assholes!
2. I'm doing my customary 31 days of Halloween posts over at (one of) my other blog(s), ( Read more... )

(x-posted from my other blogIt seems odd to me now that I got so far off track as an adolescent, though I know that depression and stress often have precisely such an effect. Still I wish I would have kept sight of what drew me as a child; I might have focused on those things, driven deep into them and perhaps shielded myself a bit better than I ( Read more... )

Did I mention that I cannot see worth a damn anymore? Seriously, all those people that used to tell me I'd ruin my eyes reading in the dark? Must have been right. I always thought bifocals were the first step on the slippery slope toward the walker and the rocking chair and the assisted living facility, but looks like they may be in my future. ( Read more... )

I'll be the first to admit that I just don't get the whole polyamoury thing. It's completely alien to my nature. I honestly think it has to do with my upbringing: I was the only child of a genuine death-do-us-part couple, so I not only had that kind of relationship as a model, but also the me-centric situation in which I never had to share or ( Read more... )

There are so many things I need to start making time to do regularly ( Read more... )