Tuesday afternoon, thunder rolling in

Man, skipping lunch was a bad idea. In other news, cleaning is progressing (somewhat), although I'm still kind of edgy and keyed up from the hypomania.

Sydney Pollack, Film Director, Is Dead at 73 (NYT); Sydney Pollack's film legacy.

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A couple of things I forgot to mention

You wanna know something hilarious? I had this Anne Taintor calendar last year (see icon for more of her work), and every month the text seemed to have some weird bearing on my life at the time. So I got another one this year, and it's been just the same... only more so. Here's April's text: ( Read more... )

Oh, I almost forgot, my mother wanted me to tell y'all a story. Every summer, we have some kids on the street who decide it would be fun to play ding-dong-ditch. You know, ringing the doorbell and then running like hell before the door opens. Late at night, if you're these kids. This makes my stepfather very, very angry. One time he tried to hide in the bushes with a baseball bat to catch them, but they could totally see him so it didn't work. It's a very DAMN KIDS, GET OFF MY LAWN!! kind of thing.

So school let out for the summer last week, and what do you know, the doorbell rings one night last week. ( She waits with the patience of the predator )