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"Silence is not the absence of sound. Silence allows many sounds to reach awareness that otherwise would go unheard - the sounds of birds, water, wind, trees, frogs, insects, and chipmunks, as well as conscience, daydreams, intuitions, inhibitions, and wishes."
-Thomas Moore


I will have had this LJ account for a year on the 7th. Makes it difficult to do that 'year ago' meme. :)


I will be on a plane tomorrow morning. And afternoon. But not much of the evening.

aelisdeliria visited me last night, and cuddling and chatting happened. I'm much less itchy and needy and overreactive. This makes me happy. :)

She's also moving in on the 13th!

I'm seeing lots of ladytabitha this weekend, starting tonight. This pleases me.

So does seeing australian_joe and rosefox again, and meeting mikz and sinboy. It's possible that I will also be meeting humandays, but uncertain. There is, as far as I recall, no one else on my friends list that I will be seeing or meeting.

I'm apparently feeling like using people's names today. :)

I'm hoping to see the sunset over the ocean, which is not something I've had opportunity to do before, having been on the wrong side of the country for that. (interestingly, I've been on the wrong side of both of the countries whose coasts I've been on - I was on the east coast of Spain, too!)

I am simultaneously nervous and excited, and both are because I'm going somewhere completely new to me. The nervousness is likely to become a bit more apparent on the plane. I'm very glad I'm traveling with someone who knows the area we are going to!

Keeping my mind on work today is going to be a challenge!


Another quote from my calendar at work:

"Our real blessings often appear to us in the shapes of pains, losses, and disappointments; but let us have patience, and we soon shall see them in their proper figures."
-Joseph Addison

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"Silence is not the absence of sound. Silence allows many sounds to reach awareness that otherwise would go unheard - the sounds of birds, water, wind, trees, frogs, insects, and chipmunks, as well as conscience, daydreams, intuitions, inhibitions, and wishes."
-Thomas Moore


I will have had this LJ account for a year on the 7th. Makes it difficult to do that 'year ago' meme. :)


I will be on a plane tomorrow morning. And afternoon. But not much of the evening.

aelisdeliria visited me last night, and cuddling and chatting happened. I'm much less itchy and needy and overreactive. This makes me happy. :)

She's also moving in on the 13th!

I'm seeing lots of ladytabitha this weekend, starting tonight. This pleases me.

So does seeing australian_joe and rosefox again, and meeting mikz and sinboy. It's possible that I will also be meeting humandays, but uncertain. There is, as far as I recall, no one else on my friends list that I will be seeing or meeting.

I'm apparently feeling like using people's names today. :)

I'm hoping to see the sunset over the ocean, which is not something I've had opportunity to do before, having been on the wrong side of the country for that. (interestingly, I've been on the wrong side of both of the countries whose coasts I've been on - I was on the east coast of Spain, too!)

I am simultaneously nervous and excited, and both are because I'm going somewhere completely new to me. The nervousness is likely to become a bit more apparent on the plane. I'm very glad I'm traveling with someone who knows the area we are going to!

Keeping my mind on work today is going to be a challenge!


Another quote from my calendar at work:

"Our real blessings often appear to us in the shapes of pains, losses, and disappointments; but let us have patience, and we soon shall see them in their proper figures."
-Joseph Addison

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Devil Duckie Drive: The Coolest Flash Drive on the Planet

*glee*

[I have _no_ idea where I saw this link, but I found it on someone else's journal]

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Devil Duckie Drive: The Coolest Flash Drive on the Planet

*glee*

[I have _no_ idea where I saw this link, but I found it on someone else's journal]

Books, Puppet Masters, becoming part of my psyche

Y'know, it's very rare for me to wish I'd never read a book, mostly because I know when to put a book _down_, if I need to.

However, I think I've come to the conclusion that I wish I had never read Heinlein's The Puppet Masters.

It was a good read, oh, yes!

But since I read it, it's figured into my less than pleasant dreams with disturbing frequency. Which doesn't make me happy - I didn't _really_ need additional ammo for my nightmares; my imagination comes up with enough things on its own!

This is why I don't read horror. And don't watch horror. My imagination doesn't need help! And I prefer to actually be able to get decent sleep, what little I get. Ah, well.

(Interestingly, it's horror of the type which is highly unlikely that gets to me more, and of the 'boo!' variety. Partly affected by the music used, in movies. Very music-affected, I am!)

Other books become part of my psyche, to a degree, as well. But I have much better control over how I assimilate things which I can explain, or have some hope of handling in real life. The creatures in Puppet Masters were neither. So they just wander around my brain, periodically resurfacing to frustrate and scare the shit out of me in my dreams. Yes, I _am_ a control freak. And they are the embodiment of a complete lack of control.

[edit]: Indeed, a complete lack of control that the person believes that they _want_, while they are a puppet...

Books, Puppet Masters, becoming part of my psyche

Y'know, it's very rare for me to wish I'd never read a book, mostly because I know when to put a book _down_, if I need to.

However, I think I've come to the conclusion that I wish I had never read Heinlein's The Puppet Masters.

It was a good read, oh, yes!

But since I read it, it's figured into my less than pleasant dreams with disturbing frequency. Which doesn't make me happy - I didn't _really_ need additional ammo for my nightmares; my imagination comes up with enough things on its own!

This is why I don't read horror. And don't watch horror. My imagination doesn't need help! And I prefer to actually be able to get decent sleep, what little I get. Ah, well.

(Interestingly, it's horror of the type which is highly unlikely that gets to me more, and of the 'boo!' variety. Partly affected by the music used, in movies. Very music-affected, I am!)

Other books become part of my psyche, to a degree, as well. But I have much better control over how I assimilate things which I can explain, or have some hope of handling in real life. The creatures in Puppet Masters were neither. So they just wander around my brain, periodically resurfacing to frustrate and scare the shit out of me in my dreams. Yes, I _am_ a control freak. And they are the embodiment of a complete lack of control.

[edit]: Indeed, a complete lack of control that the person believes that they _want_, while they are a puppet...

BDSM community and the prevalence of bi, poly, switches

Cutting this because not everyone reading may _care_.

( the BDSM community and the prevalence of bi, poly, switches )

BDSM community and the prevalence of bi, poly, switches

Cutting this because not everyone reading may _care_.

( the BDSM community and the prevalence of bi, poly, switches )

browsing memories entries...

In my time between work and getting food and going down to my sister's in RI, I am browsing people's memories, again.

Today, I point at something written by tylik, and I quote the paragraph which spoke to me the most in the link:

Honor rests in how you choose to act. Not how you are forced to act, or pressured into acting, but how you choose. The freer the choice is, the fewer consequencing that might result from self serving behavior, the greater the scope (and the need!) for honorable action. Because of this, honor (or its lack) can often be witnessed in the behavior of the strong towards the weak.

browsing memories entries...

In my time between work and getting food and going down to my sister's in RI, I am browsing people's memories, again.

Today, I point at something written by tylik, and I quote the paragraph which spoke to me the most in the link:

Honor rests in how you choose to act. Not how you are forced to act, or pressured into acting, but how you choose. The freer the choice is, the fewer consequencing that might result from self serving behavior, the greater the scope (and the need!) for honorable action. Because of this, honor (or its lack) can often be witnessed in the behavior of the strong towards the weak.