Time Travel Made Easy

solaciolum @ 2026-04-20T00:14:00

2026-04-20T04:21:02Z

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solaciolum @ 2026-04-17T23:52:00

2026-04-18T03:57:54Z

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solaciolum @ 2026-04-16T23:50:00

2026-04-17T04:24:19Z

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Pitt finale thoughts!
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the problem is that Galileo really is the most appropriate icon in the bunch

2026-04-14T03:36:32Z

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solaciolum @ 2026-04-08T00:18:00

2026-04-08T04:23:19Z

Man, today was maybe not the best day to listen to more of A Desolation Called Peace. I'm in the ending stretch of the book, and the fact that we are, currently, living through this nightmare scenario of a president threatening genocide in Iran is...well, it makes it difficult to enjoy a story about a very small group of people desperately trying to prevent a genocide in the face of war mongers.

Still an absolutely fantastic book, though. Absolutely loving it.

Flossed! and did my little exercises! and scheduled a repair guy for the dryer! and...really didn't get much else done because of The Situation. It's so hard to imagine what turning back from all of this will look like.

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solaciolum @ 2026-04-05T00:22:00

2026-04-05T04:27:38Z

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solaciolum @ 2026-04-01T00:18:00

2026-04-01T04:20:23Z

Today was stupid and involved too much cat vomit and cat shit and I drank too much but at least I did my goddamn exercises and flossed my fucking teeth and finally mailed the check for last year's ambulance ride. so it's not a complete wash but UGH.

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solaciolum @ 2026-03-29T23:47:00

2026-03-30T04:03:19Z

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solaciolum @ 2026-03-29T00:38:00

2026-03-29T04:39:13Z

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Current things:
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some number of things make a post

2026-03-27T01:31:58Z

Let's see if I still remember how to do any of this...
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i have missed my user icons, i suppose

2014-11-18T23:52:10Z

Dreamwidth saved a draft for me from June, 2012. Thanks, DW, that was nice of ya.

Updated my profile to reflect the fact that I'm not really here anymore- but I figure I should sweep the cobwebs off the lintel once in a while.

Life continues apace; I live in Ohio with the girlfriend now and I work for a mental health nonprofit, while juggling some part time retail and market research bullshit on the weekends.

I haven't written anything in over two years, and I do miss it. There are still stories in my head, but they're much quieter than they used to be. And I'm happier than I have been in a while, I think. Or maybe I'm too busy to notice if I'm unhappy, but I'm pretty sure what I'm feeling these days is contentment. So maybe my words will return now that my life is a little bit more stable.

Shit, maybe I am back- I've been lamenting the fact that tumblr is just no good for proper, instrospective, navel-gazing nattering. In the event that I do end up posting here more than once a decade, it'll probably be under limited access, but we'll just have to wait and see what happens, I suppose.

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solaciolum @ 2011-08-28T16:37:00

2011-08-28T20:43:49Z

I took a sleeping pill last night and slept through the worst of the hurricane; we managed to get through with only a little bit of flooding in the basement, and now there's blue sky and cool breezes. (I'm a little disappointed that I missed so much of the storm, though.)

We'll see some more serious flooding in the next few days as the river rises, and right now a lot of roads are closed off and the next town over has no power. But otherwise things seem better off than during Floyd, and that's good.

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okay, my icon is kind of lying, I made cake instead

2011-08-22T14:46:40Z

So, I made this peach cake yesterday; I'd bought some local peaches on Friday, and they unfortunately went from tart and sassy to gently sweet by the time I got around to baking.

I mostly chose this recipe because that picture is so incredibly gorgeous- of course, my cake did not come out looking anything like that, but I wasn't expecting it to.

( cake notes )

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bawk bawk bawk

2011-06-21T17:33:22Z

Was gonna make a post about weight loss and my mood and meds and shit of that nature, but have decided not to because ugh.

"Ugh" is a perfectly valid reason. Do not even try to tell me otherwise. >:x

Instead, books! I recently finished Cat Valente's Deathless (which I meant to read back in March, but, well, ugh) and the first book in N. K. Jemisin's Inheritance trilogy, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms.

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Oh look, it's the swing of things. maybe I'll think about getting back in.

2011-06-02T03:17:09Z

The sky was full of heat lightning tonight, and the swamp smells like honeysuckle and rotting debris. It's actually surprisingly pleasant; the trees and the water do make things a bit cooler, which is a godsend given how horribly, disgustingly hot and humid it was today.

I realize now that I've been living here for over a year, and my parents have been here for over two years, and I still haven't taken any pictures of the swamp. (My father insists it's a wood. It isn't. This is central New Jersey- it's a friggin' swamp.) Maybe if it's less deadly outside tomorrow I'll go for a wander with my camera- or I'll wait until the weekend, and go out in the early morning.

Watching an episode of Franklin and Bash right now, because smarmy lawyer shows are a particular weakness of mine. Kind of full of mental illness fail and little bits of racefail, and sexism everywhere but. Smarmy lawyer shows. We'll see how long this one entertains me before I have to stop watching it. *misses Boston Legal*

( video games! )

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solaciolum @ 2011-04-30T23:23:00

2011-05-01T03:56:41Z

6. What do you wish people who read your journal knew about you?
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I aten't dead, honest

2011-04-29T18:41:31Z

I keep seeing people doing the 21 Days for DW meme, but no one links to the actual meme. >_< So I'm sticking it here for my own reference. And now I have a whole bunch of days to catch up on, so I guess I'll do that, too.

( 21 days for Dreamwidth )

( 1. Why did you sign up for Dreamwidth? )
( 2. Why did you choose your journal name? )
( 3. Do you crosspost? )
( 4. What do you do online when you're not on DW? )
( 5. And when you're not on your computer? )

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"How was Friday?" "Oh, I guess it was okay."

2011-04-23T01:58:12Z

Well, it's sort of an annual tradition now, isn't it? I spent the whole day baking (carrot cake, pryaniki, strawberry galette) so this feels particularly appropriate, even if I didn't actually make braided bread. I meant to do other things, but doing things has been difficult lately, and baking is always a comfort.

Revised a little bit from last year, though not too noticeably.

( good friday )

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a derpa derpa signal boost

2011-03-01T04:31:50Z

I went on a bit of a jewelry making rampage this past weekend- I tried out a new style of wire-bendy-y earrings, and they're a great deal of fun to make. Uploaded a bunch of pictures of things to flickr.

Also! I've put a pair up for auction over at con_or_bust! And there's a lot of neat stuff up for auction over there, if you happen to not be enticed by my awesomesauce earrings. (Okay, I think they're awesomesauce, at least.) Go! Look! Bid! And Con or Bust just announced they're branching out into helping people of color attend any con, not just Wiscon, which is also pretty awesomesauce.

And speaking of things that are awesome, you know what's exciting for me? The fact that it won't be February anymore in about half an hour. I am so done with this month, y'all have no idea.

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insert witty sayings here

2011-02-22T23:52:06Z

There's that meme going around:

Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Give a small description of what's inside, and provide snippets on request!

I'm really bad at "small descriptions." I think I like talking about my writing more than I like actually writing. >_>

( my filenames are actually pretty boring; Assassin's Creed for the most part )

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gnarr gnarr gnarr

2011-02-10T02:28:15Z

I keep wanting to like Harry's Law- Kathy Bates! Shoes! Hilarious lawyer antics!- and I suppose I do enjoy it, because I really am something of a sucker for hilarious lawyer antics (moreso after having lived through a number of them when I was working for $LAWOFFICE). But. ( vague, brief spoilers ) So, my feelings are mixed. It's a smart, funny show, and it has its awesome moments, but it leaves a bad taste in the back of my brain sometimes.

The new season of White Collar has been pretty frickin' sweet, though, so at least there's that.

I've started playing FFVIII again! This is because a nice, repetitive, level-grindy old-school-style RPG is about all my brain can handle when I am afflicted with the Dripping Misery and General Malaise. (After a week and a half of mildly flu-like awfulness, I am finally getting better. I haaaaaate being sick.)

( booyaka )

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Hail February, Month of Mucus and Misery, Month of Snot!

2011-02-03T04:30:11Z

Sometimes the only appropriate way to express myself is through pretentious iambic pentameter. And so:

( O'BLAAAAAARG )

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solaciolum @ 2011-01-30T18:27:00

2011-01-31T03:20:32Z

Right, so.

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sufficiently advanced magic

2011-01-23T01:13:08Z

So, a few weeks ago, I did a terribly stupid thing. I generally keep my cellphone in my pocket because I need it at work and I don't have anywhere else to keep it. After so many months of doing this, I grew accustomed to its weight in my pocket; it was a small phone, and my pockets tend to be spacious. (I like having place to stash things; it annoys me to no end that the pockets on my winter coat are too small to comfortably accommodate my wallet, a bottle of water and a small child.) Anyway, once I started forgetting ky phone wqs in my pocket, the likelihood of me doing something terribly stupid approaches inevitability.

In this case, I did laundry. *sigh* My phone came out squeaky clean, and actually did turn back on briefly, but it started overheating and making unhappy clicking noises, and by the time we got to the Verizon store, it was too far gone to even recover the sim card. Thanks to a bunch of post-christmas sales and my dad being an enabler, I now have a Droid Incredible.

My friends, I am not smart enough for a smartphone. This is probably going to end in tears and tragedy, but in the meantime, I can at least check Twitter from the bus. XD And I can write this entry from the theater where I am about to watch Lyle Lovett perform, sans his Big Band. This is the first concert I've gone to in over a year, I think- am rather excited.

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Time Travel Made Easy

solaciolum @ 2026-04-20T00:14:00

solaciolum @ 2026-04-17T23:52:00

solaciolum @ 2026-04-16T23:50:00

the problem is that Galileo really is the most appropriate icon in the bunch

solaciolum @ 2026-04-08T00:18:00

solaciolum @ 2026-04-05T00:22:00

solaciolum @ 2026-04-01T00:18:00

solaciolum @ 2026-03-29T23:47:00

solaciolum @ 2026-03-29T00:38:00

more things make a post

some number of things make a post

i *have* missed my user icons, i suppose

solaciolum @ 2011-08-28T16:37:00

okay, my icon is kind of lying, I made cake instead

bawk bawk bawk

Oh look, it's the swing of things. maybe I'll think about getting back in.

solaciolum @ 2011-04-30T23:23:00

I aten't dead, honest

"How was Friday?" "Oh, I guess it was okay."

a derpa derpa signal boost

*insert witty sayings here*

gnarr gnarr gnarr

Hail February, Month of Mucus and Misery, Month of Snot!

solaciolum @ 2011-01-30T18:27:00

sufficiently advanced magic

i have missed my user icons, i suppose

insert witty sayings here