Sickness, Aliens, Romance Novels

09May07

My life has been quite odd lately. I feel a bit as though I’ve slipped into an alternate dimension where all elements are decidedly different — light, sound, time, speech, matter. Everything has been too bright or too shadowy, time has been thick and slow or breathtakingly quick. Sometimes I don’t recognize [...]

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Illness as Metaphor, or Befriending the Enemy

31Mar07

Without the imposed structure of work or school,

there are times when I forget everything I love about my life and buy into the societal belief that a lack of structure equals incompetence, laziness, and worthlessness. I’ve worked very hard to move away from this negative belief, and to realize that whatever I am [...]

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Penpal visit, Pacing

07Mar07

So, I’ve met my penpal Sam since I last posted! More on the actual meeting in a bit, but first let me backtrack.
I spent a few days occilating between anxiety and excitement before he arrived, and while I thought I was pacing myself with my pre-guest preparations, apparently I was not being [...]

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Happy Birthday Carson McCullers!

20Feb07

I’d like to wish Carson McCullers a slightly belated birthday (yesterday, Feb. 19th)!

“First of all, love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved. There are the lover and the [...]

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