One month is stretching into two. I am at my wit's end ( Read more... )

I hadn't visited in ages, and now my Livejournal account is set in what looks like Russian ( Read more... )

Two weeks ago I was in a line at the National Statistics Office and the woman behind me perpetually had an elbow or an entire arm digging into my hip, so closely did she stand behind me. There are days when I make it a point to insist on asking for space, and on other days I just can't be asked. That day at NSO was the latter kind of day. Outside ( Read more... )

No one does metaphors and nods to film noir lines like Max Payne.

I don't know about angels, but it's fear that gives men wings.” - Max Payne

I ought to have wings, then, what with all the desperate howling fear in my head that runs rampant once a month. Instead, I find myself building that shell made of scars. I keep finding weak spots, too.

Yes, my head is buried in Dr Who---has been, since January 1 when I found myself all alone back in this island's city ( Read more... )

It's 2014 ( Read more... )

Mistakes in my content writing that would escape any of the correcting mechanisms that set out to avoid mistakes in grammar and typing:

"In many ways, permanent skin care removal is vital to the residents of LA."I was talking about electrology --- the permanent removal of hair ( Read more... )

I've just been lied to ( Read more... )

This is not a well edited Hollywood scene change, edited and wonderfully snipped and cut and run with a soundtrack to make everything cohesive ( Read more... )

How many ways can we all say that we feel alone?

When I was younger, I romanticized it by pretending that I was actually a wayward, lost, self-exiled Narnian who had walked out of a wardrobe and into this world by accident---and yeah, nevermind the resemblance to my sisters and parents---

I was not from here, and this explained why I felt so cut ( Read more... )