I haven’t done one of these in about 10,000 years, so let’s get this show on the road.


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I've acquired a few new friends over the past few days, so I guess I should explain myself a tad ( Read more... )

If I've repeated myself here from the other "info" posts, I apologise. I'm tired, addled, and fairly alarmed.

• Whenever Aunt Tudi is in the hospital, I rent Fellini films (usually Fellini Satyricon and 8 1/2) and I sit in the middle of the night, watching them and eating cake batter.
• Ever since I saw a used band-aid floating in the pool at the ( Read more... )

There are a lot of things I've never done. Some things most everyone has done at least once, but not me. I don't know why. I have no reasons, no answers. It's just the way things are.

I have never:

• been in a fight
• been married
• had a child
• gone to the beach in Summer
• been skiing

A question from earlier this evening prompted me to ponder on all the roles I've played in my life. To anyone who reads this, I challenge you to post your own list of roles.

( the list, in alphabetical order )

popfiend made a post in his journal about putting his best foot forward here on LJ, and it got me to thinking about how I tend not to do that. Why? Well, like popfiend, I was a nerd/geek/outcast/whatever in school but, unlike popfiend, such a social state didn't encourage me to want people to like and accept me. Just the opposite. My treatment at the hands of other ( Read more... )

I've been tossing something around in my mind for quite a few days now. As anyone who reads my journal on a regular basis already knows, I'm currently rereading Stephen King's The Stand for the first time since I was 12 years old. I'm 38 now, and I'm responding to the book in different ways from the first time I read it. Age and experience are ( Read more... )

• I am 37 years old. In a few short months I will turn 38. What does this mean? It means that I was born in the Age of the Hippie. It means that I was wearing bell-bottom pants with multi-coloured patches on the knees and dancing kid dances to "That's the Way (uh-huh uh-huh) I Like It" by KC and the Sunshine Band on the Bicentennial of the ( Read more... )