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I want to know how people are doing. too many of you to list but periodically I just feel this urge to ask how 'every little thing is' for everyone here.

We are great, my son is amazing and growing into a fab wee man, I am about to embark on a new course of study via the uni extra-mural facility and am also starting up my own website as a support-netowrk thing for sole parents.

Still making clothes for my boy and even getting orders from women at kindy, but that is a long way off being a business yet. Finally got a decent car, so can drive to visit rellies now and recently took a short trip away for our first 'real holiday' - great stuff.

Life has changed a lot for me and the lad since I first began posting here, some of you have been with us for the 'journey' ( yes I am aware that I sound like a new-age wanker ) but anyway, even though posts from me have become less frequent I still like to pop in and see how people are.

so.........tell me....

― donna (donna), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 06:08 (twenty-two years ago)

ten people came to shrove tuesday we talked about
post structalism
queer theory
feminist biblical scholarship
pseudogiaphry(sp) and deutrocannoncial work
korean war
the united nations and russia
polish history
david orchard
smarties
pancakes
hebrew
the mishanh and levetical customs
wound ballistics
the death rate in medival eras
slave narratives
early african epics
roland
genji and the non narrative thrust of early japanese poetry
cold mountain poems
curling
west african beer
tattoos
abortion

― anthony, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 06:25 (twenty-two years ago)

life is good.
i dont think that i have ever been happier.
school is ok. i just better get into the school of journalism.
friends are good.
family is far away.

thats all.

― todd swiss (eliti), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 07:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm far too busy for my own good.
Stress stress LOVELY stress -- ah yes, life is stressful, I know.
Little bursts of utter and complete happiness.
Just getting into a new-to-me TV show that I adore.
Have got a new celeb crush!
Am finding fun in the midst of my everyday life routine.

And that's that, really. :)

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 07:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm happy with my boi, we've been living together 8 months now and it rocks more every day
I hate my job, but I cant afford to quit and I work with friends, so I'm quite torn on the issue
I want new glasses
Ive been sick a lot lately, and have an infection on my back I need to get cut out and I dont like the idea ONE BIT.
I need to stop drinking so much and start writing again, Ive had a slotful patch recently.
Yeah stuffs pretty cool.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 08:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I just saw my brother for the first time in four years, it was good. I holidayed with the g/f and caught up with lots of family, which is something I don't do often enough.
Also I just got promoted, with a concomitant pay rise which eases most my financial worries. In fact, all of them.
So yeah, I'm good.

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 09:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Back to being single, which is hard but that's life, etc., feel mostly in standby mode as I'm determined to quit my job on 1st May and then move to a new city and look for a job there. So, I'm not really trying these days, just waiting for these two remaining months to pass, hence a pretty boring phase.

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 10:21 (twenty-two years ago)

job going well, quite happy living in new house/location except for the tiny tiny kitchen and never being able to watch the shit i record on Sky Plus cos someone else is always cooking or watching bloody SG-1 in there - trivial gripes tho really. bit worried about lack of lovelife, diet, no savings and general failure to achieve unrealistic goals already but whaddya gonna do...just took out a loan to help clear some debts - hoping to visit the States in April and have some adventures, take up some more leisure pursuits and physical activities (just going to the gym even) soon, DJ more - possibly try and get a club night going, more silly internet projects, the usual basically

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 10:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Growing my hair
Staying in mostly
Going to cinema sometimes
Going to shops sometimes
Going to work
Going to university
Painting pictures
Trying to sell them
Got toothache, will eat on otherside of mouth
Reading books, watching TV, listening to music, going for walks

Life's quite good!

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 17:57 (twenty-two years ago)

growing a beard

― My Huckleberry Friend (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Waiting for graduate school acceptence/denial.
Collecting unemployment insurance.
Searching, desperately, for a job.
Listening to: Tribe Called Quest.
Trying to finish my third screenplay Gaucho Jack and the Lame Ranger.
Reading Tropic of Cancer.

― The Second Drummer Drowned (Atila the Honeybun), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)

dyed my hair grey
wearing a mack
frustrated writer
applied for jobs and postgraduate
mountains of work
got a new writing gig and kickstarted my current one again
life's good and I'm relatively happy.

hi donna!

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

got lots of new records
enjoying country music
started smoking
doing no work
made some friends
moving into a new flat
getting wisdom teeth
reading henry kissinger
glasgow is great and RJG is lovely

― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 26 February 2004 01:07 (twenty-two years ago)

had a hair(n'beard)cut tonite, yippee
got some more good music sent from Glasgow, yeah
still enjoy doing radio shows, sure
haven't smoked for two weeks, woah
day job in 'shuffle mood', sorta
finished reading chet baker's bio, at long last
glad 'bout how my daughter's doing; seriously worried 'bout the son, though
mmm... has been worse

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 26 February 2004 01:19 (twenty-two years ago)

hello donna + son!

anthony, what is "pseudogiaphry(sp) and deutrocannoncial work"?

i am eating some thai stir fry right now, yum (it's SO spicy that i can only take teensy bites)
still don't know what's wrong with my back
planted tulip bulbs and calendula and sage on my deck
trying to find a cottage near some water to rent for the summer (in either WA, MI or NJ)

― lyra (lyra), Thursday, 26 February 2004 03:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I am ok, thank you. Donna, you should take a look at the 'sleep stubborn' thread because I think you would be better than most at advising the poor parent.

― isadora (isadora), Thursday, 26 February 2004 03:12 (twenty-two years ago)

started smoking more
started loving banjo music
started appreciating milwaukee
had a few snowball fights
had lots of sausages and whiskey
watched my (long-time vegetarian) roommate go crazy and atkins diet
started maybe doing poorly at school
started noticing my living room is really gross and hipster
started dancing differently
eaten a burgerpipe!!!!
started calling random 1-800 numbers
started thinking i really like power tools.

― kirsten (kirsten), Thursday, 26 February 2004 03:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I am becoming involved w/ local tramping club which is good but I need more money for gear and hut pass and so on

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Thursday, 26 February 2004 03:33 (twenty-two years ago)

sick + depressed = missing class and smoking too much pot
avoiding the creepy girl
listening to bonnie billy, khanate & prurient
missing home//not wanting to go back home
trying to get a job

― Ian Johnson (orion), Thursday, 26 February 2004 03:37 (twenty-two years ago)

you know how in high school (and after as well, but less obviously perhaps) there are those people who are really good at math&science&computers but seem completely clueless/stunted about anything regarding emotions whatsoever?

lately i've been feeling like one of those people. except that i don't like science and math.

― j c (j c), Thursday, 26 February 2004 03:42 (twenty-two years ago)

GK, have you had gender realignment?

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 26 February 2004 12:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey Donna, how are you & your son?
Life is pretty stressful here at the moment. To add to our housing woes, we have now been given notice on our rented house because the landlord is selling it! Arrgh! Trying to find a suitable replacement is proving slightly difficult.
In better news, I had a b/day the other day. (OMG 28!!!) I was spoilt rotten all w/e. I had a b/day party on Sat evening & spent all day Sunday trying to get thru a horrible hangover. I met some lovely ILXors at my fap on Monday which was much fun, but alas I didn't manage to purchase any kicks or shoes.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 26 February 2004 13:36 (twenty-two years ago)

My boiler has conked out and I have no hot water and heat only from the Living Flame in the sitting room. I have learned to use Access but am mostly interested in making the Forms pretty colours. I have been to the gym twice in a week (nb. this is good for me!) I have removed a virus from my computer. I have given up chocolate for Lent. I am going to NYC in April and SW France in May. I have seen a pretty decent band of 14-year-olds play in a hall in Govan while children took fencing lessons down the corridor. I may be coming around to the Fiery Furnaces.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 26 February 2004 13:42 (twenty-two years ago)

i have my first job interview in about three years this morning

otherwise: still broke, still living at home, still miserable most days, still no regular mode of transportation, still at odds with almost everyone in my life, still undersexed and underappreciated.

on the other hand, i've heard a lot of good music these days.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 26 February 2004 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

No sex drive or no sex life?

Momentary update - I wish my colleague would just shut up and take my surliness and general miserable-to-be-aroundness today as a sign that I *really* don't want to speak to him.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 26 February 2004 14:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Put me back in the womb now plz.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 26 February 2004 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey, Donna!

Things are mostly OK here...
-Freaking out because I don't have a job, but trying to remind myself I've only really been looking for about 2 weeks
-Experiencing minor glitches in my otherwise good (a few weeks shy of year-long at this point!) relationship because of stress caused by the above
-Having a wide and varied and rewarding social life, with friends from ILX, and IRL, and ILX friends who are becoming IRL friends!
-Trying to relax and just enjoy both the above, without getting freaked out and paranoid and self sabotaging due to bad experiences in the past...
-Being more active, and thus have lost a little bit of weight!
-Making music in my bedroom, at least, even if I don't feel up to stepping back into the music biz, writing quite a bit more than I had been
-Have been travelling, both in the UK, and in the US, and have seen and reconciled with family members I haven't seen in several years!
-Am obviously spending too much time rewriting resume compulsively, and am now bullet-pointing my entire life!

― The River Kate (kate), Thursday, 26 February 2004 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I didn't mention that work sux. :-(

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 26 February 2004 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey Donna,

-doing horribly financially due to my hospitlization and missed work early this year. not sure what's going to happen
-my car's about to fall apart and I can't do anything about it due to above.
-have decided to quit teaching and go back to school for a BFA in graphic arts but probably won't be able to do so for another year due to money situ.
-wondering how in the hell I'm going to support myself come summertime
-just got asked to contribute to the music section of our weekly paper
-doing websites again.

that's about it. not much time for anything else.:)

I like your updates and check-ins. . .

― Viva La Sam (thatgirl), Thursday, 26 February 2004 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

good luck with the graphic arts, sam¡
speaking of which, work is really busy but i go on vacation in a month. australia + taiwan.
i have a friend who has been slipping in and out of a coma for the last month since a car accident. when he's not in a coma he doesn't speak or seem to recognize anyone.
had a pointless one night stand last night. good times.

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 26 February 2004 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

mama's a head full of bees

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 26 February 2004 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Coughing up infected mucus and blood. Being inadvertently shat on by a couple few people who are very important to me. Realizing suddenly that self-destructive behavior is actually destroying me. Growing ever-more ridiculously proud of and happy for my son, who will start kindergarten in the fall. Missing him a lot too, as he's been living with his mother. Feeling wack in the heart cuz she just shacked up with one of our best friends from back in the day. I'm not necessarily in a bad mood though. Just whenever I cough up something red.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 26 February 2004 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I hug you, nza.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 26 February 2004 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

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