Comments | seanan_mcguire: Another review; still life with blue cats.

seanan_mcguire

Another review; still life with blue cats.

Jun 28, 2009 08:59

I went to sleep last night with a puffy blue Maine Coon guarding my doorway and a sleek blue Siamese stretched next to me on the bed. The Siamese was using a plush blue-ringed octopus as a pillow, and back-dropped by Halloween pillowcases. When I woke, the Maine Coon was puddled on the bright pumpkin-fucker orange cat tree ( Read more... )

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kyra_neko_rei June 28 2009, 17:02:31 UTC

Solidly spectacular ( ... )

seanan_mcguire June 29 2009, 17:42:10 UTC

Fantastic!

wcg June 28 2009, 17:42:55 UTC

Yeah, I get to drive spacecraft for a living. (Alas, I drive them remotely from the ground.) Still, it's a way of living the dream that was so outrageous I didn't even dare articulate it back in 1969.

seanan_mcguire June 29 2009, 17:43:11 UTC

That is SO BADASS, there are not words.

melissajm June 28 2009, 18:18:08 UTC

I've always thought true luxury was having fruit growing in your own yard, and "Tech Support" and I just picked a half-pint of mixed berries. ;) And we have a (very small) house with a (very small) library. with 2 cats, and I get magazines in the mail with my stories in them... it really is a dream come true. Thanks for reminding me to stop and appreciate that.

seanan_mcguire June 29 2009, 17:43:21 UTC

You're very welcome.

jenk June 28 2009, 19:36:45 UTC

Wonderful. Not only did I have my dream tech job, but when that waned, I got to explore and find something that works for me better.

Plus I've got a library in a house that's big enough to host lots of friends, I'm loved, and healthy, and it's a beautiful day. ;)

seanan_mcguire June 29 2009, 17:43:33 UTC

Wonderful!

silvertwi June 28 2009, 19:59:13 UTC

My life, finally, is wonderful. I just graduated high school. I'm going to my first-choice college in the fall, with plans to major in music before going on to medical school. I have my own modest library that grows bigger every year, six musical instruments, two cats, and a partridge in a pear tree. I have a loving, mostly-supportive family. Some great friends. A deep appreciation for both the written word and music that will never go away.

My life is just beginning. Now let's see if I can spread my wings and fly.

angel_vixen June 28 2009, 20:36:57 UTC

My life is just beginning. Now let's see if I can spread my wings and fly.This, but I'm older than you are. I spent my whole childhood surrounded by books and a mother who gladly bought me more, but writing my own -- writing was, and still is, my True Love -- was not an option. My father got rid of my notebooks, laughed at my enrolling in Creative Writing and Journalism classes, and told me the only way he'd ever pay for my education was if I "put an English degree to good use by teaching" (I come from a family of teachers and highly respect the profession, but I couldn't be a teacher; I'm too "weird" for the school-system). Well, he ended up paying for my brother instead, because he figured that since I was a girl, what need had I of a degree anyway ( ... )

lysystratae June 29 2009, 03:15:08 UTC

Obviously I don't know anything about him, but based on that one conversation, the boyfriend's a keeper :)

angel_vixen June 29 2009, 17:32:42 UTC

What makes it even more touching is the fact that, even with both our paychecks, we're barely treading water after I was on medical bed-rest for two weeks (and the subsequent doctors' fees). But he's at a job he loves, and wants to take a chance on finding the same for me.

AngelVixen :-)

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