I just realized that my whole plan, my whole idea for making 2008 a great year, makes me an incredibly boring person. And that I am very attached, in a backwards way, to being not boring, despite avowedly celebrating and enjoying the boring things in life, and the boring everyperson. I was pretty excited and prideful of how well I did at not being ( Read more... )

I started out with visualizations of a cool, still pool of water. I imagined placing my hand on the perfect surface and watching the ripples go outward ( Read more... )

Let me tell you internets, bushels of crabs are expensive. To anyone who's hosted a crab feast that I have attended, my eternal gratitude. Also I will not be hosting one anytime soon because whoah ( Read more... )

I never posted about my trip to Philly a few weeks ago. It was excellent in every way. My friend Tara from the Genesis boards was there to greet me and cart me around to dinner and to the show. We had cheese fries at Chickie and Pete's which were, I believe, the best cheese fries I have ever had. It was endlessly wonderful to talk with people who ( Read more... )

okay, so first off: i haven't been reading that much livejournal. i sneak in a comment here and there but there's so much, it's so overwhelming. many of my friends are going through tough times and some i probably don't even know about. i hesitate to think this way, but before livejournal, i wouldn't even have known about three quarters of these ( Read more... )

5 things that lower my stress/anxiety level ( Read more... )

Okay, I wish I could describe the past few days as a success, but overall, I can say there were a few successes and mostly unpleasantness. Starting friday things just spiralled out of control. Moodwise, planwise, I just felt like I wasn't driving. Nothing to do with the great LJ outage, just life ( Read more... )

Every once in a while I get this feeling... it's like a flashback, only not of any memory. It's a thing, it's a time, it's a feeling. It's a shag rug. It's a macrame plant hanger. It's brown. It has curves, and makes me think of art deco. It has a deck, and it has a woman with long, flowing hair. She might be wearing a jumper. It almost feels bad ( Read more... )

I am obsessively concerned with my memory, or lack thereof. I am always surrounded by intelligent people; I have had incredible luck with that or perhaps it is simply because of my socioeconomic status - who can tell. But I do know that I can't keep up. I am an "educated" person. I hold a Bachelor of Science in Sociology. I went to an expensive ( Read more... )

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