Yesterday Mr. Big was in town for a charity event for which I had agreed to help with. The provisions of my help were that “we would make dummy buy us dinner.” The event itself went off rather well and at total of $2,400 was raised for cancer research, or awareness, or something. It was cancer related ( Read more... )

I am in a foul mood to say the least.

My doctor did not allow my prescription to be refilled as he wants me to come in for a visit. Of course, with it being the holiday(s), no one is in the office to schedule an appointment or to have me get a temporary prescription. I am now experiencing the withdrawal symptoms (or rather, I have been ( Read more... )

Have not written for several months. Through speed skating I met a wonderful, dedicated, and beautiful young woman from Texas. Almost immediately a strong connection formed between us in a way that I have never experienced before with anyone. She accepted that I had problems and was committed (and more importantly, willing) to help me get through ( Read more... )

Completely unrelated to September 11th. I find that I have been neglecting this journal and I should write something ( Read more... )

I have very little patience for writing today so my intention is to be succinct. This should prove to be an interesting writing exercise ( Read more... )

A dream: Sitting at my laptop when it finally loads in safe mode. Trying frantically to load every document on my hard drive. The documents open, I copy them all to the clipboard and try to paste the text into one huge email so that if my computer is utterly destroyed, I will at least have a copy of all my work. Just as I paste the text into the ( Read more... )

The most fascinating aspect about the whole night was that while the figure of speech is "like getting kicked in the balls," while waiting for and riding the train one of my testicles felt as though it had been twisted around upon itself. Perception creates reality.

False hope.

Hope is terrible. It can make one happy before anything has actually happened.

Woodstock is 1709 days old ( Read more... )