"The new king, usually the son of the former monarch, often ached to punish the woman who had hurt his mother the queen. ... One day in 1444, Louis, running into Agnes, cried, 'By our Lord's passion, this woman is the cause of all our misfortunes,' and punched her in the face."
- Sex with Kings, by Eleanor Herman

That is all.

It still utterly shocks me how every time I come back into writing and drawing, how I am just hit with this sense of belonging. I don't believe I'm the greatest at either of them. I get frustrated more times than I care to think of when blocks hit me and nothing comes out the way I want ( Read more... )

I did it ( Read more... )

* Take a picture of yourself right now.
* Don’t change your clothes.
* Don’t fix your hair
* Just take a picture.
* Post that picture with no editing. (Except maybe to get the image size down to something reasonable. Don’t go posting an eight megapixel image.)
* Include these instructions.


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About my physical reactions to extreme emotions:
( Cut on account of it being huge and me being crazy and so this is containing huge amounts of crazy )

So my three best friends are going away to college. Separate colleges. One has left already, without even seeing me, without even setting up plans to do something before she left, even though I told her I missed her and wanted to spend time with her. But, you know, anyway, I can get over that. It's not that big of a deal.

But it's like...

my best ( Read more... )

So, I'm not really one to be on the subject of politics, because honestly I find debate exhausting and feel it causes an unnecessary rift between families, friends, and, oh, I don't know?, maybe the whole country. But my dad coerced me from my room into the family room to watch Sarah Palin's address to us at the Republican Convention. "This is a ( Read more... )

Am I just a magnet for sexual advances on the part of my male friends? Is there just something about me that screams Use me to have a good, sensual time because, don't worry, I'm not looking for any actual commitment or feelings to back up that hand you just placed there? Should I just feel blessed that I'm even getting this kind of attention at ( Read more... )

Is it weird that I get excited when something happens in real life and I think, "Wow, that response was just like something out of a satirical novel or a witty screenplay"

As opposed to...

reading something in a satirical novel or hearing something in a witty screen play and thinking "Wow, that was like real life."

Is that weird?

Part of me is dying to start completely over, while the other part is frantically trying to record the things I've meant to remember before I allow myself the reboot ( Read more... )