So it seems I'm in the midst of house-buying madness all of a sudden, and the free time that I used to have has all gone swirling down the drain. Add to that the fact that my workplace has gotten tremendously busy in the past few weeks and that leads to me not wanting to even look at a computer when I get done with work. This is why I haven't even ( Read more... )

I have never felt the urge to reproduce.

I see those eyebrows going up into the stratosphere. Of course I've felt the urge to have sex. I'm a guy; we think about sex an average of once every seven seconds, if the popularly stated statistic is to be believed. Sex is great and wonderful and awesome, and a fantastic way to grow closer, and I'm dating ( Read more... )

So I was out of town starting Thursday afternoon and got back late late last night. I checked the LJ Idol doings and discovered that I had been eliminated from contention while I was out of town ( Read more... )

I won't go so far as to say that I deliberately set out, all the time, to do the opposite of what I am supposed to be doing -- that sort of thing would be childish and stupid -- but I can't deny that it's a lot of fun to do the unexpected, to act in ways contrary to those that others may consider normal, and especially to find "strange" or " ( Read more... )

I've been on a lot of vacations with my parents, but only one of them affected me to the point where I wanted to change my entire lifestyle ( Read more... )

One of the really hellish things about being a voracious reader is that it invariably colors your own writing whenever you put pen to paper yourself ( Read more... )

I am always pleasantly surprised when a book, or movie, or piece of music, or whathaveyou, lives up to its hype ( Read more... )

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I'm a sucker for a feel-good story. I admit it. I'm cynical and sarcastic, but I'm a sarcastic cynic with the damp, squishy heart of a romantic.

And so it was with a big upwelling of emotion that I watched, with interest, a link that a friend sent me earlier this week, 19-year-old Andrew De Leon's recent appearance on "America's Got Talent". This ( Read more... )

The room was painted a soothing pink; the furniture was softly padded at the edges and anything remotely harmful had been removed from the place. There was a window to the outside world, opening to a colorful, flaring garden with a soft gravel walking path, but she could only look at it through the glass. They rarely took her outside anymore; she ( Read more... )