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Life Redux
2/1/02 23:06Well, I did have this typed up in livejournal and almost ready to send once already, but for some reason the backspace key sometimes wreaks havoc with livejournal forms and it deleted the entry. I'm doing the smart thing now - typing it up in a text file and copying it over when I'm done. Sigh.
First, my best friend Evelyn gave me a nifty book by Neil Gaiman (fantasy writer extrordinaire), Stardust, for Christmas...I read it and got slightly inspired and now think I have the makings of a short story. Yay! Well, okay. So I got really inspired. But I can't write like Gaiman - not yet, anyway. So it is only a slight inspiration.
Second, as a kind of Christmas present, my mother has offered to foot the transportation bill for me to go to Boston in a few days to visit some BMC alumni friends and other fun people. I am very happy about this, and very grateful. Go, mom!
Third, a friend of mine whom everyone thought was going to have a crappy and depressing vacation and may have needed to call people at all hours to cry is not having such a bad time of it after all and I am very happy about that.
Fourth, my friend Jen is having a truly shitty life. Her dad's problems have worsened, a thing I thought impossible, and it now appears he has pancreatic cancer. Which is a Terrible Thing. I don't know what to do or say for her and can only sit and listen. Jen, if there's anything I can do, let me know.
Fifth, and finally: I told my parents about my draconity this past Sunday night. It went relatively well, as these things go. This is going to be a long section, so you can ( read more here )
First, my best friend Evelyn gave me a nifty book by Neil Gaiman (fantasy writer extrordinaire), Stardust, for Christmas...I read it and got slightly inspired and now think I have the makings of a short story. Yay! Well, okay. So I got really inspired. But I can't write like Gaiman - not yet, anyway. So it is only a slight inspiration.
Second, as a kind of Christmas present, my mother has offered to foot the transportation bill for me to go to Boston in a few days to visit some BMC alumni friends and other fun people. I am very happy about this, and very grateful. Go, mom!
Third, a friend of mine whom everyone thought was going to have a crappy and depressing vacation and may have needed to call people at all hours to cry is not having such a bad time of it after all and I am very happy about that.
Fourth, my friend Jen is having a truly shitty life. Her dad's problems have worsened, a thing I thought impossible, and it now appears he has pancreatic cancer. Which is a Terrible Thing. I don't know what to do or say for her and can only sit and listen. Jen, if there's anything I can do, let me know.
Fifth, and finally: I told my parents about my draconity this past Sunday night. It went relatively well, as these things go. This is going to be a long section, so you can ( read more here )
