I arrive home from work last night, and climb the three flights of stairs to my apartment. To my amazement, there's a chest-high cardboard box sitting on the landing in front of my door. It's completely unexpected; I didn't order anything, and therefore, the appearance of a large cardboard box on my welcome mat is a bit out of the ordinary, to say ( Read more... )

Last night I dreamed my family and I had been invited to New Zealand for an exclusive showing of the LOTR films, before they'd been released to the theaters. It's all a bit vague, but I think I dreamed I was on the production crew, since there was an amusing interlude with everyone shoving props in their cars and caravanning out to whichever coast ( Read more... )

It's a gorgeous day today. It's about 55 degrees already, which for Seattle is summer weather. There's not a cloud in the sky. I'm driving to work, window open, enjoying the lack of rain, when I take a moment to notice the woman in the car in front of me. She's got her her windows closed and the fan or air conditioning on, and turned up so high ( Read more... )

Many sincere thanks to Mr. Giudici, who owns and operates the lovely photography site at Timeless Wanderings. Not only is he an extremely talented nature photographer, but he generously granted me permission to use one of his avian images as an icon, a lovely little dunlin in winter plumage ( Read more... )

I recently admitted the existence of this journal to a group of friends, but got quite apologetic about it. In the admitting, I took a severe look at my journal and realized I was justifying the contents, as if there were some arbitrary standard of journalling that I hadn't quite achieved, which was odd. I took a look at why I felt self-concious ( Read more... )

My writing group is supposed to meet today, which is good, since half the time we keep postponing our meetings. It was my fault last time; I asked for an extension because of my knees. Nobody's emailed anyone, which worries me since I just love to have confirmation that things are going to happen according to a plan, so I suppose I'll show up in ( Read more... )

Apparently, bad knees and a cold room equals many bizarre and random dreams.

sir_chris, get out of my dreams. It wasn't like that, though. It was like hanging out at a friend's house after school, and we had dinner with your parents and everything. Dream parents, you understand, which are always nice and perfect and charming and laid back. Heh. Someone ( Read more... )

You know, when everyone was in L.A. I felt all out of the loopy and in desperate need for a blow-by-blow account of what was going on. Now that everyone's back and sharing their accounts of fun and crazy excitement, I'm all sour grapes about it and don't feel like reading it. Sheesh, what's up with that? LOL I'm so glad everyone had fun, though. ( Read more... )

I have no pictures, since I didn't go to LA. I don't have any funny stories. Angel was very good today. It felt like coming home, almost, a feeling that I haven't felt in a while. I miss Joss' hand in the writing mix. It just isn't the same without him ( Read more... )

Ha. I feel all accomplished and stuff. Went to the doctor and got me knees examined and pulled and moved around, and I found out that I have something that has a name, is quite common, and will NOT require surgery to fix. Yay ( Read more... )