Viva La Vida my Life

...is really the soundtrack of my life right now. I can't help ... Have you ever felt that your life is nothing more but a heap...of sand. I used to think life is a wheel of sorts. ...if I was to describe my life right now through a wheel I...t always like that. From time to time, someone would push the ...it when you see that the life you were allowed to build ... for the rest of your life could be the very person ...

Social Networking Time Sinks and Blogs for writers

...might win some books! Anyway, the whole social networking thing is a gigatic time sink when it comes to writing.  It's not that I think it's a time waster to connect with my peeps.  Au contraire, I think it's marvellous...s some guidelines to get you beyond the social networks. 1.  Schedule your writing time.  I use Essential Pim for this on my netbook.  2.  Insist on ...

wherein Liz does the headless chicken dance of 'oh god I'm moving on Friday, where did the time go?'

1. Packing is of the devil. I am going to run out of boxes. This is okay; I have paper bags. Also, I can enlist my parents to bring more boxes up with them on Friday. I am halfway through packing my books. I have sorted a couple boxes of stuff for my landlords to try selling in their yard sale on Friday. I have packed up some linens and assorted junk from my kitchen, and one box of knick-...

michael joseph jackson, august 29, 1958 - june 25, 2009. remember the time?

...you in concert for the very first time during the dangerous world tour, having ...the tv documentary on your family and life, hating your father for every single ... you. i remember the allegations, the time in court, staying up late at ... rumors turned into facts. buying tickets for the first time in my life without knowing who'd come... crying and singing at the same time. i remember bawling like a baby ...

... be in the car with me on the way up too. And holy fuck lol, he loves to play with the radio stations, and it usually ends up on Hot 106. The rap station. It's 99% likely to happen. I can't wait. For however long I'm gone, I'll still be on AIM most of the time SINCE MY PHONE CAN DO THAT PLUS I'LL GET RECEPTION MAYBE. So if you desperately need to reach me, remember, my AIM is Captaincarnival

Writer's Block: All-Nighter

When was the last time you stayed up all night? What were you doing? View other answers That would be...weekend before last. And it is absolutely, unequivocally, nobody's business what I was doing. ;)

Say hello to my buddies, insomnia and pain.

... the new little black dress . Yes, of course, I'm zany; I just wanted to call it something else this week. I'm still looking for a lamb recipe for tomorrow. And, in the early evening, it was time for yet another nap, though a phone call from RS woke me up 40 minutes before the alarm. Well, we did the profound talking and the silly talking. Nearly two hours of it. Despite my insomnia, at least I'...

Here's a deep one for ya...

...DO. I love people who are passionate about life. People that are creative. People that want to ... that at least try to be laid back about life. People that realize that life is short, and the important things aren't money or power. People ... succeeds at all of those things all the time, of course, but we can try. I ...'ve simply gotten to a point in my life where I'm only interested in having anything ...

Quitting Twitter (just don't LJ at work, then!)

.... # I really enjoy @mrdictionary but this all takes too much time. Too many brain cells wasted on others' frienddates and American healthcare. @...crunches in their general direction, and they'll love you. Works every time. How do you think I got where I am today? @damianaw:...' ^__^ @maddeh: I got through Season One in no time at all ("exams"). Sleep is insignificant in relation to Gossip Girl. #@...

deadCenter 2009, Saturday Night

.... Or, at least, made it as far as the closed India-Bangledesh border, having toked merrily through Iron Curtain, Turkey, rural Iran, etc. The early seventies were a weird-ass time, geopolitically.. .....From there, he and idealistic doctor friend*** spent a month in Nepal, distributing left-over medicine and performing cataract surgery. Back in states, talked doctor friend and Indian-spiritualist ...