In other happy news, I had a complete bitchy breakdown last night after waiting about eight hours to eat a meal while J. dickered around cooking it. By the time we DID eat, it had been twelve hours since my last meal, and I was plotting death. Five minutes and half a pound of mashed Read more >>

1) Today’s surreal moment: receiving copies of the mydoom virus spoofed from an address from a company I haven’t worked for in seven years. It is odd to see brianna@nameofcompany.com sending me mail. Who on earth has that address in their book who would be silly enough to download this virus? 2) Recruiters submitted me Read more >>

The recruiter people were moving kind of quickly yesterday, and I told J. “I have to be up early, because they will call me before nine.” That’s what recruiters do. They call you between eight thirty-four and eight thirty-six am, to ask you questions like “How much Java experience do you have?” (I’ll never tell) Read more >>

Today, when I finally got out of bed (still so exhausted that my blood felt like it was sizzling) I found an email from a recruiter in my inbox. Coincidentally enough, I had just decided the day before that I desperately needed to find a new job. I will be running myself ragged, with the Read more >>

I’ve talked a little bit about being lucky enough to be a procrastinating digital colorist for the nation’s largest comics syndicate. It’s a tiny side job, I color three strips a week and the gentleman who offered me the position let me pick my all time favourite strip as my first – Mutts, by Patrick Read more >>

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The snow is coming down in waves of white. The sky is the same blank, somber grey it always is when it snows. I feigned a reason to go out, and bundled myself in my scarf and overcoat. I wanted to experience the stillness of a snowfall – but the cars in the parking lot Read more >>

The world is snowy and grey. My world is, at least, I don’t know how it looks for you. Last night I took a long bath with my hair in pigtails, daydreaming in the water. I was imagining scenes for a story I’m writing, and inspiration struck, so I yelled for a notebook! a pen! Read more >>

I’ve been working on brianna.org for the last week. I have a gallery of my SX70s up there now. Just a heads up. There is also the first wide-access link to this journal on the site, so I’ve made some previous entries friends-only. I had a dream last night about my family again. This time, Read more >>

I absolutely cannot sleep. It is three am. I have already lain in bed for hours feigning sleep. I thought if I could do a good imitation, it would fool the insomnia away. It isn’t working. This will be the fourth night this week I haven’t slept. I’m not sure how to fix it. It’s Read more >>