Yesterday I had to make a phone call to vent and the person I called very nicely reassured me that I had already resolved the situation and its done, which is totally true, but sometimes I need someone to balk with me. Balk at this bad behavior! BALK ( Read more... )

Sometimes I think, I don't know, maybe I'm supposed to just be working a job that provides a modicum of satisfaction, in the way that solving a long division problem is like itching a scratch in a brain, and then I just go home and do things like sit on the couch and read books and watch movies and get caught up in pop culture phenomenons on ( Read more... )

The past two days have been like Ye Olde Rustic House. I've been sick with a minor head cold, that started with my left armpit lymph node being swollen on Saturday and then started to manifest yesterday afternoon right before I took off running to catch a tow truck. But also, its 53 degrees in our apartment. Not because we're suddenly concerned ( Read more... )

I saw El Laberinto del Fauno (mintwaster, will that title make you go see it?) on Saturday with drinkasyoupour, and it was pretty fcking amazing, though I honestly had no idea how intense it was going to be. It was kinda like being pushed down a long flight of stairs and getting up uninjured but dazed and overwhelmed by the capacity of human existence. Yeah, that's my ( Read more... )

After an insightful IM conversation with limenal (which weirded me out slightly, seeing as saw her just yesterday morning but now she's back in San Fran), I was doing some therapeutic googling -- where in lieu of talking to a live therapist, one googles random psychological issues I wonder about and look into self-diagnosis, even though at this moment I ( Read more... )