This is getting to be the norm and I don't like it. I've had so many things I've wanted to write about: Bernie Sanders as a Jewish presidential candidate, seeing "Hail, Caesar!", see the Kehinde Wiley exhibit at SAM, among others. But writing has been challenging lately. I've been wondering if it has to do with the medication I'm on. I may call my ( Read more... )

1) Weather: It's been insanely dark the last few days. Cliff Mass, Seattle's weather guru, says that Monday, December 7th, was the darkest day in Seattle in 9 years. If this morning is any indication we may break that record again. I've got my happy light on as I type. It's helped me before. Looks like I'll really need it today.

2) Self care: I ( Read more... )

So, it was quite the storm today: major winds and rain, just as predicted. Many folks I know lost power and still haven't gotten it back yet. My power flickered a couple of times but it remained on. Glad I didn't have to deal with an outage ( Read more... )

Water's in the kettle for tea, cats have been fed and watered (though if you asked them, not nearly enough), and I'm dressed. Thus starteth the day. While I did my morning blog roll, I turned on the happy light to help get me started. I can already feel it working. It's so bizarre how something as simple as light can make such an enormous ( Read more... )

Bless me, LJ, for I have sinned--it's been 14 days since my last post, two weeks. How the heck did that happen?

Well, I'll tell you.

WorkOctober has been the busiest, most stressful month of my work year. At work, a bunch of federal regulations came down that we were unprepared for, so I'm spending a lot of time updating the company website to be ( Read more... )

It is definitely autumn. I find it harder to get out of bed in the morning; it's staying dark later every day. It's colder; the next time I change my bed sheets, it will be to put on the winter bedding. I need to dig out the winter jammies. And the kitties are cuddling with me more than even just a week ago. I find that all I want to do is hunker ( Read more... )

It's Superman! by Tom De Haven: A licensed Superman novel published, like, 20ish years ago that takes a very realistic, pretty literary and at the same time almost pulpy approach to Superman's original story, starting at when he's done with high school and as he heads off into the real world. De Haven's voice cracks both wise and perceptive, and is ( Read more... )

WeatherFirst of all, it's hot. I know, I know, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot. But in Seattle, summers are typically warm and mild. The last week or so, the weather has been scorching: sunny, uncharacteristically without rain and, yesterday, humid--at least by Seattle standards. The level of the strangeness of this weather cannot be ( Read more... )

State of me: There's been a lot going on emotionally lately, things I have a hard time talking about. It's left me feeling tied up, strapped down. There are a lot of things I can't say to anyone ever. I've thought about finding a therapist, but I've spent so much of my life sitting in therapist's offices that the thought just exhausts me. And so ( Read more... )

"Life's a bitch and God's an iron, and I need a drink and a rubdown."--suricattusThat pretty much sums things up right now. My state of mind is the result of two pieces of e-mail I received last night. I'm not going to get into detail about either one, except to say that one was my fault (or at least it feels that way) and the second sort of exacerbated the ( Read more... )