I'm leaving Something Something with sadness in my heart, because this house is full of people I love to be around. Nevertheless, I'm leaving, and that means that there's another open space for other lucky people to fill. The location of the house is excellent, the company is excellent, and the price is right (for someone who, unlike me, has had ( Read more... )

For the record: so very less suicidal now. In case folks were worried. I'm not all rainbows and unicorns either, but I'm on an even keel.

I'll be moving in with anotherjen et al. over the course of November. The landlords are part of the "et al.", and we've all talked together for a little while about some basics, with more discussion to follow. My ( Read more... )

I'd like to borrow leather pants for a Halloween costume. Anybody know anybody who might have a pair I could borrow? My waist is 36 or 38 and my leg is somewhere near 32; material color is irrelevant.

I'm in a state of financial crisis. Debts are mounting, I've got big expenses coming up soon, and I seem to have a serious mental block against finding regular paying work (not like it's easy to find in this economy anyway, but seriously, I just can't seem to try it the way I need to). The only reason I'm not in trouble right now is that I've ( Read more... )

I recently had another physician's appointment in an ongoing attempt to discover any physical issues that might be contributing to my depression/anxiety/insomnia/fatigue complex (each component of which is both cause and effect of the others). Lately I've been trying to figure out whether part of the reason I have a hard time going to sleep is ( Read more... )

... is not particularly applicable to most people's lives, and is much much longer than I remembered it being -- namely, several paragraphs. So I think I'll give it a pass. Move along, nothing to see here. =)

I've run across some very clearly-phrased insights in various fields recently. I'd like to share one here, and another once I get back to my zine library in a few days. This is from Bay Windows, 7/2/09, page 15, in an article about denying a delay of a new law's enactment ( Read more... )

A while back, I posted about needing one housemate here at Something Something, since I'm not in a position to pay half the apartment's rent myself. The person we got via Craigslist didn't work out (read: "didn't pay rent"), so we're looking again, and I'm now more resigned to the need for patience. Ideally, barodar and I would like to have as a ( Read more... )

starphire's recent post about biking in this area reminds me -- Papercut Zine Library lends out the biking magazine Urban Velo. It's a well-produced, thick, dense monthly production that gets lots of good reviews and re-borrowing from people who've read it. Come check out a copy!

I've put my pics from Poitiers up at Flickr. There's a little commentary to guide you through. Nothing earthshaking, given that neither me nor my camera had much in the way of photographic aptitude, but I managed to capture some interesting scenes ( Read more... )