Today has been a daze. I did not want to sleep last night, so instead, at 4 in the morning, I took up the book that had been gleaming in front of me from my packed bookshelf like an opalescent moonstone amongst black dirt, and I have not put it down since. Thirteen hours have passed, and I'm maybe 3/5ths of the way through. It is by the author of ( Read more... )

One of the things that I've always struggled to understand is the Omega role in the pack, and why it was even needed/wanted. I struggled to find an analog to my pack, but it didn't really work until just last night I realized it was Kim's friend, Waffle. This certainly bears further watching, and watching I have been; I still don't understand the ( Read more... )

Excerpt from Jari's Domain Diary, 2003/01/04 -- I want to point out that I was proposing a theory to explain a collection of observations I had made here, not declaring (what I viewed to be) a fact.

I was wrong, in a recent entry. Well, okay, I've prolly been wrong a lot, but in this case, because I write to work things out in my mind. In this ( Read more... )

Excerpt from Jari's OLD (on-his-own-website) diary, 2002-09-11

Dear Diary,

No, I won't say "dear diary" because I'm not writing to my diary, I'm writing to the world. This isn't the first entry I've written. Sure it's the first I written on this website, but when I get swamped by emotions and the like, I have to write them down. For a while, ( Read more... )