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Write here, write now
So. That question I mentioned last time: "What do I want to be doing with this life?" There's really only one clear and obvious answer.
Why the hell aren't you writing?
(I now understand that the lifelong dopamine deficiency has always played a very large role in this. I'm hesitant to ascribe total blame to it, simply because I'm suspicious of ( Read more... ) -
Moments of transition
I've been feeling very frustrated with my life in recent months.
It's been a rough time. A brutal year, to be honest. Leaving G-Mart at the end of April was necessary. And frankly long overdue. But I've continued to have trouble remembering simply how to relax.
A lot of that has just been feeling the weight of everything: physical pains, mental ( Read more... ) -
Customer Service FAIL. (And it was me.)
Soooo, this is fascinating. And mortifying. And bizarre.
I've been doing customer service for about 20 years. As with anything you do for a long time, I've gotten increasingly better at my job with time. Occasionally I'll see an email I sent 15 years ago and will be embarrassed by the rookie mistakes I made. But hey, that's progress!
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Halloween and the Fretting Thereof
So here's the thing.
Halloween has never been a favorite holiday, just because coming up with a decent costume is something I've never felt particularly skilled at, and doing so stresses me out. The number of costumes I've been happy with over my life has been astonishingly few.
When I was a kid, I dressed up as a vampire a couple of times; ( Read more... ) -
The Strut That Would Not Die
Earlier this week, as I walked into the theater for that evening's performance of The Tragedy of He-Manlet, Prince of Eternia (for which I'm running lights & sound), the bartender - drinking at the theater's bar, her shift not yet begun - looked over at me and grinned, "I like your swagger."
Oh. Geez. That."Thanks," I mumbled, feeling a self- ( Read more... ) -
London 2014: The Prep.
In June, I went to Lakes of Fire ( Read more... ) -
I Like a Dirty Martini, But This is Ridiculous.
So here's a thing that happened.
Ryan & I are at Township before the Hamell on Trial show, with Alex running late. So we order food. Ryan has ordered beer, and I order a dirty martini. Cool.
Except when the bartender brings it over ... it looks nothing like any dirty martini I've ever seen. I mean, it's in a martini glass, and I know other ( ( Read more... ) -
UK 2012: The Scenic Route
I lived in London from September 2007 to April 2008. I could spend many words on what a great city it is (and I have), but one of its features which I never really took much advantage of was its convenience as a hub to the rest of Europe. Living in the US, any trip to Ireland, or France, or Spain (and more) is a massive undertaking of both ( Read more... ) -
Those 2015 Hugo Awards...
[A couple of posts I recently made on Facebook. Cobbled together and reformatted because oh hey LiveJournal lets you do that sort of thing.)
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"In any case, this slate of nominees has already launched a Twitter firestorm, and lots of people are planning to vote "No Award" in every category except "Best Novel." It's definitely a weird turn of ( Read more... ) -
When I Was Quite Young, and Computers Were Too
Several months back I discovered a fantastic blog called The Digital Antiquarian. It's written by an author of interactive fiction (text adventures and the like), and is a compelling and astoundingly well-researched history of the early days of computers and electronic gaming. After first sketching in the very earliest days of the 1950s and 60s, ( Read more... )