I have cried a lot today, but there are joyful things, so that's what I'll focus on.

In no particular order:

• Dodge Poetry Festival is online this year


• Work paid for me to go to Compounded Oppression: Sister’s Circle today


• Takeout Chinese food (we don't eat out much; joy is joy)


• We signed mortgage papers this week. Okay, I signed, but we own the ( Read more... )

• Kicked butt at work today.
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( The numbers )

Happy Lunar New Year!

I spent the first half of the day just sleeping or staring into space, but I'm a lot less sick now as a result, so that's a good thing.

I was just made disability team lead on the Resistance Manual, and I would love it if some of you came and joined me in building those pages to be really great, as well as checking to make ( Read more... )

Back in 2011/12,
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Fifteen years ago today, I made my first entry in this journal (at LiveJournal at the time). It was my 35th birthday (which makes today my 50th). Some changes:

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It just took me 260 posts to catch up with y'all. Thank you for being so productive in your entertaining-Serene duties ( Read more... )

Up since 4 for no good reason. Enjoying the quiet of a solitary Sunday. These are the times when I want to catch up with my peeps, so I've read your posts (haven't commented much, but I'm listening. Lisa, I love how you notice things about all your kids ( Read more... )

Was just reading a nice update post from a friend I see a lot of online, and it was really good to hear the details of what she's been up to. That made me want to give an update, too. I will put it under cut tags, because I'm feeling chatty.

( We've been in San Diego for 18 months )

Awoke at 4 to a random sound that my brain processed as something hitting the house. It was probably just someone closing a door in the house somewhere -- it's a big house. I also had the beginnings of a migraine, so it could've been exploding head syndrome, which I do get sometimes, and which is one of the coolest-named benign pschophysiological ( Read more... )