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Apologies

Sorry I haven’t been around much lately. I was recently traumatized by this picture (after clicking on a mystery meat link, no less – I should’ve known better). Internet surfing has induced panic attacks ever since. On the bright side, my therapist is taking his family on vacation this month.

Seriously, first it was blogging malaise; then it was a sinus infection; then it was blogging malaise; and then it was family drama, sinus infection, malaise, and stomach flu. At the same time.

Right now, it’s just the stomach flu; so I’m feeling relatively better.  Blogging to recommence soon. (And shyeah, I know… first rule of blogging: never apologize for not blogging. D’oh!)

Time Machine

This is probably interesting to me and only me. You’ve been warned: It’s mostly fuzzy navel gazing nonsense.

I was emailed recently from Geocities warning that they are going to delete all of their free website accounts sometime this summer. Well, most of my first anonymous blog is on that site. What to do with it all? Some of the old posts have been shamelessly re-tweaked and republished here. But what about the rest?

I didn’t use any kind of content management software. I just wrote everything in HTML (which seems now like etching out words on stone with a blade of grass). So adding all of that content to this site would be a huge job; I began the site in 1997 and ended it in 2003. And I’m not sure that I even want all that content here. I am a completely different person now.

Seriously, I was one angry, twenty-something, white bitch. Don’t laugh. So I haven ‘t changed all that much.

I almost peed my pants reading my old biography because I laughed so much. It is, at once, both alarming and reassuring to see how little and how much I’ve changed in 10 or so years.  And you know, since I’m planning a title change for this blog anyway, I’m going to have to incorporate parts of my old bio into a new one for the blog…

LATER: Looking at the stuff I wrote in 1998 is just plain out weird. What’s even more weird is the background I used back then. Good Gawd.

Whuh?

Why am I, all of a sudden, getting a ton of spam comments about bondage? Usually, I get spam from people who want me to enlarge a dangly bit of anatomy I don’t have. But this bondage stuff?

Well, now I’m gonna get a ton more of spam about bondage. But before? I don’t believe I’ve written about it. Hmp.

Happy New Year!

For 2009, I offer you two Irish blessings:

May the road rise to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face.
And may the rains fall soft upon your fields.

May you have warm words on a cold evening,
A full moon on a dark night,
And the road downhill all the way to your door.

May your blessings of 2009 far exceed those of 2008.