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Due to excessive speculation in recent months regarding the “true identity” of my spirit companion, I’ve decided to finally, at long last, spill the beans, come clean, expose the skeletons and air the dirty laundry. The identity of my spirit companion is . . .
Okay. Having let the issue stew in a little back-burner pot for a couple of weeks now, I think I can conclusively say that I am not Otherkin of any stripe. My factors: I don’t feel “wrong” in a human body. I don’t feel nonhuman at all, in fact, except that I feel out of Continue reading →
This morning I found out that a good friend of mine lost his job and that the mother of another good friend died last night. These are both “real life” friends. In my observation, bad news comes in threes — one may come alone, but if there’s two, there’s going to be a third. So Continue reading →
Occasionally, things in my life happen twice. It’s an anomaly I’m still trying to figure out. (Edit: This one turned out to be simply mistaken identity, which is a relief. It usually isn’t so simple to solve.) It first happened in the 1980s when a favorite actor, Will Sampson, died of a heart attack. Then Continue reading →
The New York Times today reports (among content about the new health care bill and the release of the names of those killed at Fort Hood) that “There are just over 100 people in the world serving sentences of life without parole for crimes they committed as juveniles in which no one was killed; 77 Continue reading →
I’ve been combing the thesaurus and the dictionary for a synonym for “experience” (verb form). Did you know that, unless you have a very specific experience in mind (e.g. “feel” or “imagine” or “meet,” et al), there isn’t a good substitute? I need an adjective adverb form of “experience,” ending in -ly, and since there Continue reading →
Sign the petition at the Lifetime Network website, here. Representatives Rosa DeLauro (D-Connecticut) and Joe Barton (R-Texas) and Senators Mary Landrieu (D-Louisiana) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) recently re-introduced the bipartisan Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act in Congress. Thanks to its viewers, Lifetime has so far collected more than 23 million online petition signatures urging Congress Continue reading →
An article in the NYTimes online today attempts to determine why people blog when they should be doing things like “homework and swim practice, or perhaps even housework and parenting.” Their determination is that bloggers assume that just the act of starting a blog will provide an instant audience, followed by fortune and/or fame. While Continue reading →
Hey folks, long time no anything! I thought you might like to see a couple of pictures of the new kittens, who are 8 weeks and 1 day old. We have four, all males, and they’ve officially entered the cute overload stage. They do little hopping attacks and leaps, graceful and clumsy all at once. Continue reading →
The email issue appears to be fixed. I know I shouldn’t be surprised that no one commented on my Valentine’s post after clamoring for it, but I am. It irks me, because it was difficult for me to put myself out there like that. I haven’t decided yet how I’ll deal with it. For the Continue reading →
…but sometimes I just get pissed off. The link leads to a Christian woman’s blog who has a post on how “the ban on gay marriage slows the erosion of family.” What. the. bleeding. fuck. I continue to be amazed at how anyone anywhere can believe that what another person does affects the “sanctity” of Continue reading →
For several months, I’ve been seeing far more than the usual number of shadowy movements seen from the corner of my eye. They are growing in realism and frequency, and in the past two days I’ve seen at least a dozen out of the corner of my left eye (none from my right in that Continue reading →
There’s been a lot of behind-the-scenes legal battling going on with regard to various Internet providers desiring to block or restrict certain types of access to the Web. Comcast is one company that wants to sell its priority connections to high-paying corporate accounts and “providing” the remaining dribbles to the home user. I have been Continue reading →
Remember a few weeks ago when I found a very large “Southern House Spider” in my bedroom and killed it? Then a couple of days ago when I killed a big Wolf Spider with an egg sac on the porch? Well, that same night I came inside and killed another huge Southern House Spider in Continue reading →
In the past couple of weeks, I’ve noticed a number of timely developments in my circumstances that I would call synchronicity if I only had a better handle on it all. I mentioned that I started schema therapy about 6 weeks ago; this has generated a lot of back-burner thought processing and semi-conscious contemplation that, Continue reading →
Among the stranger synchronicities of recent days, today I found myself Wiki-ing Joey Ramone, who has been on my mind all night, only to discover that today is his birthday. He would have been 57 this year, which makes him ten years older than I am. Or would have.
Once during a week of weird behavior on Meridjet’s part, I showed up at our “astral house” (a shared space, construct, or whatever) to find him talking to a very tall and lanky guy I could have sworn was Joey Ramone. I promptly about-faced and hid in the kitchen til he was gone. This probably makes me the wimpiest person ever: either I missed my chance to meet a dead punk idol, or I am afraid of my own imagination. Ha!
There’s a new site and blogging contest called “Blog Awards Challenge,” based on the internet-age-old practice of supplying writing prompts, or challenges, for community-wide use. On LiveJournal, there are several communities that do this, particularly those given over to “muses.’ Muses are typically roleplay characters modeled after characters from books, movies, and television shows. The apparent goal of the Blog Awards Challenge is to award bloggers for the best writing, but as of yet there don’t appear to be any contest sponsors, professional judges, or anything aside from fellow bloggers running with a new idea. The url, the blog award challenge dot com, doesn’t match the title of the site, and a cursory look around shows that the site is run by two bloggers and allegedly aided by
vics (very important clicks)