It's been a couple of weeks since I last posted -- in part because things have been wildly busy (as usual) and incredibly stressful (also as usual, unfortunately, although I am very actively trying to improve matters ( Read more... )

Back from Seattle! I am planning a longer post, one with pictures and Actual Thoughts, but that is for later when I am not wilting on the couch watching The Mummy (yes, again) and waiting for my bedroom to cool down enough that I can sleep ( Read more... )

Today's subject line is from Jeffrey Foucault's "Thistledown Tears," which is a song that somehow I have managed to listen to I don't even know how many times now without paying close attention to the lyrics -- until a post went up over at milliways_bar last night using some of those lines, and I blinked and took a second look ( Read more... )

We're one full week into the new year and already I've shattered my first resolution so hard that I can still hear the pieces bouncing. Ah well. Time to pick myself up, dust myself off, and try again. It's not like I didn't know it wasn't going to be easy ( Read more... )

Reading over this version and last year's* both, it appears I'm holding steady in some regards. We'll see what 2011 brings, especially as a psychic** recently told me to prepare for a Year of Major Changes in all aspects of my life. I'm kind of curious to find out if she was right.

In the meantime...

( 2010: the year in review )

You know you're tired when you lie down for a thirty-minute nap because every muscle in your body is aching ( Read more... )

Look, I'm still here! For given values of here, anyway -- I'm in the final stretch of the semester's paper and project set, and after that I expect to actually have time to answer emails, phone calls, meme comments, so forth and so on ( Read more... )

The subject line says it all, really. It's that kind of day, in which I hop from topic to subject to point like a sparrow might from branch to branch.

And for topics, I'm starting with this song. "All Will Be Well," by the Gabe Dixon Band. I first heard it thanks to a playlist that chaos_pockets made, and there's just something about it that resonates for ( Read more... )

I live! Thanks to everyone who commented with advice for how to deal with sore throats -- I tried most of it, I must say, and as a result was able to keep my voice well enough to sing in the RequiemThat, by the way, was an amazing experience. :) It was a combination of two cathedral choirs in one setting -- Episcopal and Catholic communities in ( Read more... )

The subject line is due to the date, actually, rather than the Dark is Rising sequence, although there is of course overlap -- isn't there always? Anyway, today is All Souls' Day. I have no particular plans for the day itself, but on Sunday the choir will be singing Mozart's Requiem. It seems fitting.

Requiescat in pace, all who have gone ( Read more... )