Greetings All! I will be away for the next week (to return on July 6). Following my return, select members of the D&B will be at the following events, wearing exciting costumes: July 12: Washington DC garden walk and bad poetry reading. More info can be found here: http://the-nordic-one.livejournal.com/221268.html Sunday July 19: Susquehanna Folk Music Society Summer Fest and Potluck Picnic. More...
Hello, all, Some of you may have heard that Shore Leave is not having a Klingon Feast this year but is throwing an Alien Gaslight Shindig . I am planning on going provided I can get all my registrations in tonight. I may even make a real costume for the event. Is anyone else going? Sunday of that very same weekend there will be a Steampunk meet up at the National Arboretum which would vaguely...
I am vastly amused by today's writer's block: "The French term "l'esprit de l'escalier," which translates literally as "the wit of the staircase," refers to those perfect, clever comebacks that you only think of after the fact." I didn't know there was a word for that. Though, I shouldn't have been surprised. There's a word for everything. ( http://www.amazon.com/Deeper-Meaning-Liff-Dictionary-ebook/dp/B000FCK2QA/ref...
Thanks to some good friends and family I was able to block-schedule my entire weekend from about Friday night onto this morning. I'm a little light on the LJ handles for everyone, so please feel free to let me know who is logged in as who, so I can get this right. Friday First up, I went down to Dupont Circle to do my very first Gallery Walk with dmcindc , Edward and Rob. Of course...
In response to Phil's ( the_nordic_one ) need to publicly post on LJ to me and everyone else... you want this public Phil... Fine. Phil chose to delete my response, so here it was... Wow real mature Phil. You were the one who sent me an invite to your freakbowling and I merely responded to you that I would not be attending and why. I communicated maturely, whereas you are being quite a child...
Through this past week, I have come to realize a great deal. I have always felt that I was alone in life. Whenever anything bad happened, sometimes a friend would help here and there, but more often than not, I had to go through the majority of it all by myself. Over time, I have done my best despite all of that, to build healthy relationships in my life. When other people were in need, I reached...