If you ever want to know what growing up in Reno in the '80s was like, read this blog.I'm not sure I actually knew Courtney. We ran in similar circles, but she's a few years younger than me, so we likely didn't actually cross paths. But her stories feel like my stories. To a frightening degree ( Read more... )

Normally, I'd be writing about the Lost finale over on fanbitch, but a) That journal is pretty heavily about a different fandom (and the trashy fic I'm writing in it) right now, and b) This is more about personal stuff than the show, so...

I already made a post over here about the religious stuff (though I may do more navel-gazing that direction later); ( Read more... )

I can't decide whether it's sad that I'm getting such a kick out of getting back into writing fic again ( Read more... )

I just closed a chapter in my life. Fitting, I suppose, to do so on this day ( Read more... )

This is probably the coolest, most hilarious, most awesome thing I've seen in MONTHS.

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Goodbye, John Hughes

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Maybe I'm just imagining it, but it seems to me that the quality of online discourse has declined at the same rate of improved connectivity to remote areas in red states ( Read more... )

Now that we have a pending offer, I figured I'd take a few moments to think about all the time we spent in Chez Fou, and the big events in our lives in the nine years we were there ( Read more... )

So, part of today's house tasks involved cleaning out the closet where the formal wear and other gussying-up gear lived. I ended up tossing out the vast majority of it because it just didn't fit me anymore. Some of it is stuff that hasn't fit me in 15 years, and was horribly out of fashion, but some of it really was gorgeous, and it's quite sad ( Read more... )

Something today reminded me of the library I used to spend a lot of time at when I was a kid.

It was really cool--probably one of the only truly awesome places in Reno, actually.


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