No muse to sing me alive anymore; I must feed off of others like a carnivore. SEETHER LYRICS (a bit of sarcasm helps) "Fine Again" It seems like every day’s the same and I’m left to discover on my own It seems like everything is gray and there’s no color to behold They say it’s over and I’m fine again, yeah Try to stay sober feels like I’m dying here And I am aware now of how ...
August 2005. Having agreed to attend my nephew Steve's wedding if possible I do a quick scan of the budget and start to prepare the inevitable can't-make-it-speech (so sad) to be delivered in approximately a month for respectability and appearance. Still somewhat astonished by this turn of events. Where had all this adoration been hiding? Could have used it during my own kid's teen years but I know it would have been for cheap emotional leverage. My nephew however has been thinking ...
Friday night, I am bored. It's raining and cold outside and the house is freezing. This morning it was 45 F in here. That is an inside temperature mind you....about 7 C. I have no money left for heating oil and I haven't since the beginning of April. I am so bloody tired of being cold! WEll, now it isn't so bad, because I turned on the space heater, but those things suck up electricity like nobody's business. I have got sweatpants, a robe and a blanket on, but sheesh. Anyway...I ...
Ok, back to Scotland. The Scottish parliament works on a combined first past the post/Proportional Representation (PR) system, and elects a total of 129 MSP's (Member Of The Scottish Parliament). The combined system requires voters to choose both a candidate for their own constituency (first past the post) and also rank the parties as a top 3 system for the PR section, this is where the smaller parties gain their support. Since devolution came to Scotland in the mid/late ...
As if it weren't bad enough my parents and son abandoned me for two months - they left for Virginia yesterday - the love of my life, my soul's inspiration, the very creature who heaven breathed down like fire in my mind and gave rise to every hope, every dream, every word contrived in desire, is gone: "Status delivery failure: unknown user." My first reaction was absolute terror; my second was unmitigated despair, and then a third sprung up from somewhere, a hidden strength ...