Allo, allo.  I've been very quiet over here, I know (which doesn't mean that I haven't been watching...), and my only real excuse is that I've been putting a lot of effort into the blog.  I mean, I've still got absolutely no traffic and my only consistently regular reader is my mother (who still doesn't really get the whole automatic update e-mail ( Read more... )

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After months of waiting, today I received word: I've been accepted into the Corcoran's History of Decorative Arts MA program!  I'll begin in the fall.  I honestly had no idea whether they would find me to be "grad student material," as even I have trouble imagining myself as such.  But we'll see how it goes.  At least the commute is simple, ( Read more... )

Because you all wanted to know what I looked like when I was young and ugly.


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Alright, so I'm not unemployed per se, but I am without a job for all intents and purposes (at my instigation, so it's cool), and having to wait at least a week more to know whether I'm a student again or what.  WHAT.

I actually did stuff today, so I'm in a goofy mood.  What stuff?  I'M GLAD YOU ASKED.  I got rid of maybe one-tenth of my belongings ( Read more... )

One of the pretty things I bought for myself this past year was a new camera, as the lens on my trusty world-traveled Sony somehow became jammed during my move out of the dorms.  I bought a Sony Cybershot DSC-W200, which is essentially an updated version of my old one.


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Wow, I'm coming dangerously close to daily posts.  Scary.

So I've had this livejournal for a long time, as evidenced by my username.  It was 2003, the guy I was crazy about had just introduced me to Mahler, and I was listening to melodramatic German symphonies all the time.  I still think Mahler's an OK guy, but he's not number one on the playlist ( Read more... )

I'm so much of a homebody that virtually any outing I make (aside from going to work) is a cause for celebration. That said, today Summer and I went on a quest.

We began simply enough, by dropping my prescriptions off at the store. Then we kicked it up a notch: we went to the Borders in Fairfax to pick up a new toy I'd put on hold (more on that in ( Read more... )

Novelists' Strike Fails to Affect Nation Whatsoever

"The strike kicked off last fall when the NGA announced it had hit a roadblock in negotiations with the Alliance of Printed Fiction and Literature Producers, failing to resolve certain key issues concerning online distribution, digital media rights, and readers just not getting what writers were ( Read more... )

I've been in a bad place of late.  By which I mean that I've been more depressed than I can ever recall being before.  At 10, I was told that I had Bipolar Disorder and put on Prozac.  Since then, the medication has varied some, but the results have been largely uniform: I've been calm and as happy as anybody else, all but entirely unaffected by ( Read more... )