I woke my parents up when I got over-excited about the thunder/lightning storm. Standing on the second floor foyer, looking out our giant window... I couldn't help but squeal with excitement every time lightning lit up the 'hood. Sometimes it was as bright as day, and I could see that it hit as close as the subdivision next to us. Once, the light ( Read more... )

I've been working on my website recently. Tell me what you think.

And yes, I already know that most of the links don't work.

Suing is not something you can do casually. Suing isn't something that will take a few weeks. It's not something you can do without already having money. It's not something you should threaten at the drop of a hat. It's not something you should do without reading the law and knowing it by heart. It's not something without physical and emotional ( Read more... )

Today, I went to a Catholic healing mass. When you're half-dreading, half-anticipating something to happen, the feeling you get when it does happen is singularly odd. The mass itself went along normally. The homily was wonderful (as it is, good sermons are hard to come by) and the priest seemed really nice ( Read more... )

My revival of my Visions blog is inspired in part by Simon's posting of his Nano1 + rewrite, and in part by my revival of my middle school self.

Yesterday, I dreamed I was a girl in a science fiction novel. My brother appeared and told me that since I'm not sexy, I serve as much purpose as a redshirt, so I'm probably going to die soon. (I'm glad he's here to tell me these things.) I walked around a starship and realized that I was so stupid that I couldn't figure out how to make any of the ( Read more... )

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(That is NOT a play off of the "Someday's Dreamers" translation ( Read more... )

So I'm putting something on at my house on Friday or Saturday night, (looking towards Saturday since apparently Leslie has something on Friday that might drag my people away), and you, right now, should check your email. Either that, or email me first. Rides are being arranged.

Recently, I've been working on my graphics editing skills, using PSP since Adobe isn't on my computer. The results are that Mint Adnade is turning into a very skewed version of what I think Vera would look like, and I've lj-cut the image below. On the left is my edit (done with mainly layers, color balance, brightness, the smudge tool, saturation, ( Read more... )