( Turns out my thoughts on derby are long enough to hide behind a cut )

As many of you know from my incessant facebook updates, I start my first day as a derby girl tomorrow. I am going to be on borrowed skates and pads, but I'll be doing it ( Read more... )

Okay, so those of you who have been watching my facebook or have been around me long enough for me to open my mouth in the last couple of months knows that I've recently become a ( little obsessed with roller derby )

This weekend was lovely. It was perfect in about nine ways. In many moments, everything was covered in a soft golden light. This weekend was the embodiment of contentment and hope for the future.

( the first half: garden and apartment )

I posted these on facebook, but totally forgot to post them here! I'm sorry all of my updates have been full of art and basically nothing else.


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My icon says that all art is quite useless, and that is especially true for ( this stuff: )

So I guess Tuesday was Hourly Comics Day only I DIDN'T KNOW and now I'm wracked with self pity and remorse. It was such an epic day! There was a lot of cleaning and productivity and preparation for the blizzard, and then there was the blizzard. The blizzard that made this happen on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, a short drive south of me:


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Some day soon I will have actual, interesting stories and experiences to share instead of brief updates on my bedraggled life. I am catching up on that, and there will be a day in the near future when you will get to read exploits instead of explanations. Until then, here's a ( list )

I don't like reading sad posts. It makes me feel bad, and I do it anyway because often they are written by people I love. But I don't like reading them. Often they are too much a jumble of emotion without enough perspective and reason. So, if you feel the same way, I will not feel even slightly hurt if you skip this post entirely, because while ( Read more... )

So, this will come as a shock to those of you who know me best: I've been cleaning. A lot. ( Everything I can touch, basically. )