I'm pretty excited about the Friend Map I've been working on. It's been an idea for years, then a piece of scratch paper floating around my apartment for months, and now hours worth of work on open source software.*

What is it, Andrea?


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So, let's say you have a couple young children.  [Some of you actually do, so that should be easy to imagine.]  Let's also say that you're at the beach, and you've brought along a couple paltry toys : some plastic cups and a bucket.  You've left them in the sand while you wade in the water.  When your kids want to build a sand castle, you find that ( Read more... )

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I got home from therapy a little over an hour ago. It was a good session, or at least one in which I asserted myself quite a bit. There is some radiance around the grief of seeing how rare my [imaginary] partner is ( Read more... )

You may have bad feelings with or about your [potential] partner, or even feelings you are not comfortable having with/about someone in that position. This is completely normal and to be expected, even with the most compatible matches, since we are such complex creatures and feelings range the vast gamut that they do ( Read more... )

I want to like someone very much
and for him to like me very much
and for us to get on well
and make something beautiful
why is that so hard to find?

that's a pretty tall order

but why?!!

honestly, you may wanna lower your expectations
I'm down around, "hang out, be low intensity, and low drama" these daysexpectations I can change ( Read more... )

beaucoup trop = too much

There's too much going on, too many responsibilities and issues alurk.

I have a build up of laundry and dishes. I'll blame that partially on the 18 Nov Day w/Out Natural Gas. We're running out of clean undies and socks for Jasper. He's peed on (but not in) his trousers at school almost every day the last week or two. ( Read more... )

I think I wish there were something word-wise I could say right now, but it's not surfacing. My mind feels like a changeling soup, as that from which Odo might have come. It's a little frustrating, b/c there's a lot of stuff to process lately and I want it done now... or do I ( Read more... )

From Bryan:
High school; tell me about it.You felt like an outcast, no ( Read more... )

It is raining outside right now. It rained a bit today at lunchtime, too. This morning, I woke up to grey-sky, as anticipated by the forecast. I got my bag packed for the day, Jasper and myself dressed, some oatmeal ready in a metal bowl, and the two of us out to the bus stop on time ( Read more... )