A Wish and A Prayer
I received an email from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, the school that also runs the Art Institute Online. I get way too many phone calls and the occasional email from these guys, and I finally got fed up. I usually ignore them, but this time I wrote Al K. ...
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December 21, 2008
Getting Hard For Me, Again
It's time for another cycle of "Where do I really need to be?" introspection. This whole magazine move for Rending the Veil is falling apart. I am starting to think it might be time to seriously consider giving it up. I don't want to do that, but I can't continue ...
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December 19, 2008
Winters Are Like Leap Years
I had to leave the house a couple of hours ago to visit the next burg about 20 minutes from here (usually, at least). When I left, I knew I was in for potential trouble. See, this is south Texas, and people here are completely ignorant of how to drive ...
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December 10, 2008
I Have Spent an Eternity in the Wind
In my youth, I was always moved by music and absorbed it like a sponge. That doesn't happen automatically anymore, but sometimes something will catch my ear and I can tap into that part of me again, for a while. Barring that, there's always Winamp and my old favorites. I ...
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November 25, 2008
Retrospective/Personal Philosophy Series, part 4
Well, I warned you in Part 3 that I was liable to ramble off course, and I did. I left all sorts of stuff out, including Jesi's entire time living here. lol. But we'll address that in this post, and if there's room, we'll continue into the gushing-gratitude portion of ...
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November 21, 2008
The Text of My New About Page
This is a non-commercial blog. I briefly considered commercializing it, but it left a bad taste in my mouth. While I do not make money blogging here, I do accept donations and I do list my services in the sidebar – not to solicit money from my readers, but to ...
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November 10, 2008
Since Last We Danced
I have been struggling with insomnia, a beast that self-perpetuates for those of us "blessed" with bipolar disorder. Lack of sleep induces mania, and though the mania may be too mild to be of much use, it does result in difficulty sleeping. So unlike most people, if I try to ...
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November 8, 2008
Insomnia Sux, and Other Complaints
I'm deeply and profoundly exhausted, snarling at my daughter and needing a vacation. I can't sleep, but I am so tired I could cry. I worked almost nonstop for several days (I lost count) getting the zine together, finally wrapping up the last bit of code in the last article ...
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November 3, 2008
Juuuuust A Bit Outside*
*Bob Uecker in Major League It's bloody cold outside already. I knew it was going to be an early winter, and I suspect we'll have snow again this year. Three years ago we had a white Christmas... first one ever, I think. We rarely even get flurries, and that Christmas Eve ...
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October 29, 2008
Quick and Personal
For anyone looking for me for either RTV stuff or Yahoo IM, I've been offline almost constantly since finally returning home from evacuation on September 21. First, the cable (internet) was out til I think the 3rd of October. Since then, I've been alternately extremely busy, extremely depressed, or feeling ...
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October 12, 2008
Life Goes On, In Spite of Preferences
I've been really depressed off and on lately, though I'm not really sure if it's chemical or issue-based. The sort of acute heartache I feel now would usually indicate that Meridjet is stimulating my subconscious with regard to work needing to be done. However, he's been relatively inactive for the ...
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October 7, 2008
An Open Letter to All Concerned
I'm crossposting this to relevant places (and email) to reduce my catch-up time. I bet some of you are wondering where I disappeared to for so long. I live on Trinity Bay just east of Houston, about a mile from the mouth of the Houston Ship Channel. Hurricane Ike forced ...
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October 1, 2008
Update on Ike
Ike whipped our asses down here in Houston. we went under mandatory evacuation for my zip code, which started noon on Thursday. I had no time to prepare and so I left a ton of stuff on the font porch. We packed and were out of the area by 2 ...
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September 16, 2008
Evacuating - I Don’t Like Ike
I've been trying to avoid leaving, but now we are under mandatory evacuation starting at noon. I've had two fitful hours of sleep and have nothing done, so we have to get a lot of stuff outside put somewhere safe, and then pack up and leave. The cats will be ...
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September 11, 2008
Coupla Things - Dare to be Different, Tarot, Astrology
The Dare to be Different group is going well so far, attracting a wide variety of blogs and bloggers. By request, membership has been extended to blogs not using the EntreCard widget. If you have a blog that showcases something different or if you are an unusual person who openly ...
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September 9, 2008
Still Going: The Energizer Sheta
Well, I may not be that manic, but at least I'm still getting up in the morning rather than in the afternoon. I woke up at 8:30 a.m. after dreaming I'd slept til 3 – woke up with a panicked jolt, in fact. I gathered up a bunch of books ...
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August 30, 2008
So Very Busy, and Feeling Great About It
A quote that Maainakhtsen posted on LJ: "The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." -Albert Einstein Very nice. Good motto material, too. I've been busting ass around the homefront this week with ...
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August 29, 2008
Internet Outtage Oh Noes
My internet's been out for two days. I had to get a new modem, again. So now I'm back, but too busy with mundane issues this week to get to much until probably Friday. I'll answer comments then. :) My feed jumped up to 282 today. Awesome!
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August 26, 2008
Halloweens of Yore, and Spirit-Induced UTIs
This post is from November 2, 2003 (the one I just posted was from October of 2003, but the events themselves were four years prior). I'm going to bed in a minute but wanted to leave one more Meridjet-related story before I went. I'm trying to sleep forward; sleep deprivation ...
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August 23, 2008
Angels? Or Something
I'm looking at the next post in the archives (moving from most distant past, forward) of my old LiveJournal and it's a post from 2003 regarding an angelic visitation in 1999. I was doing daily LBRP and other rituals at that time, and so was accustomed to seeing manifestations of ...
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August 23, 2008
Infinite Distractions
In my quest to find a tolerable theme for this blog until I have time to design my own, I've jumped to four different possibilities in the last couple of weeks. I decided the "garden" theme was too frilly and it looks bright lime green on a crt monitor – ...
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August 20, 2008
We’re Still Here
Thanks to all the well-wishers. The storm hit this morning, and we ended up with well over 4 inches of rain. The water did come into the apartment, but that isn't something that bothers me much anymore as if left alone, it takes care of itself and all I have ...
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August 6, 2008
There’s A Storm Comin’ and We’d All Best Be Ready When She Does
The tropical storm known as Edouard (that's not a typo) is hovering off the coast of Texas/Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico and is due to hit here tomorrow. And when I say, "here," I do mean here. Observe: That star is the location of my house. Though Edouard (I guess ...
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August 4, 2008
Hello Dolly. Thanks for the Spiders.
Dolly the hurricane has been south of here, dumping buckets of rain on us. It's been raining hard for most of the last two days. So, naturally, the bugs are running for their lives. I just found another 3 to 4 inch Southern House Spider in my bathtub and sprayed ...
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July 25, 2008
Recent Sheta News
As per usual, my energy is scattered due to severe disorganization. I actually tend to be an organized person by nature, but I organize in spurts which are followed by a steadily gathering layer of chaos. My chaos has reached such a level that it's interfering with my ability to ...
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July 21, 2008
M.I.C.R.O.S.O.F.T.
MICROSOFT is: Many Idiots Conspiring Routinely Over Software Over- Fucking Techniques I'd claim the copyright for that off- the- top- of- my- head anagram, but they'd probably sue me. Like half of America (at least), I've spent the last 48 hours offline due to the most recent XP security patch fucking up my ...
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July 10, 2008
What Is WITH The Spiders?
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 ...
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July 8, 2008
Wolf Spider! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!
I was outside cleaning the porch (it's not horribly hot right now) in preparation for yet another plumber visit, when something large and white zipped between my feet at warp speed. I suspected a spider but it had vanished into a pile of stuff by the time I turned around. ...
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July 5, 2008
Just a Warning
Well, the site crashed again and I've lost a variety of settings. I'll try to re-upload the database again later and see if they return, but if not at least I have my posts. My life is chaos and I've been alternately stressed and depressed with random bouts of deeply ...
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June 9, 2008
Weird Feelings
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 ...
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June 2, 2008
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