The settling in portion of the move is finally gaining momentum. Books, my dearest friends, are filling the shelves, tightly-packed together, by genre, by look, by chapter of my life. Many of my books are well-worn, especially the children’s books I still have – the Scholastic Clifford the Big Red Dog books, the Mother Goose […]
The snow fell in big fat flakes Friday night, and although the plan was to have everyone leave work at around 3, we ended up leaving around 5, which was fine by me. None of the snow really stuck, anyhow, and there was just chilly, slightly sleety rain for the whole evening and far into […]
One of the things I love doing lately is taking my time. If I were a superstitious sort of romantic, I would think that the very molecules of the South had invaded my psyche and pulled time in a slow, thready, sugary-grainy taffy, forcing my limbs to wade through molasses-years’ worth of contemplatory seconds and […]
Each day feels slower than the next. The fog hangs in the air, wetter than wet, less crisp, more real. Library books stacked on the side table in the living room, and the swish-clatter of the dishwasher. You can even smell the pine trees, which is novel. Every day is a little slower. I drive […]
Oh, I’m just blue today. I am grateful for a great many things, but at the end of the day, I sometimes feel like my hands are empty. I have nothing to show for myself. It’s ridiculous of course; it’s just a mood, and it will pass eventually. All things must pass. I still play […]
This weekend featured another attempt at emptying one or two more boxes, and finding good homes for the items within. Part of what made settling in to Los Angeles so difficult when I first moved there was not really the fact that a moving company had packed most of my belongings for me. It was […]
It’s sort of ridiculous, homesickness. I keep telling myself to get used to it, but part of me is resigned to always having these unexpected moments of nostalgic pull towards another place. See, I’ve been cruising right on through the last two seasons of The West Wing, and today I happened to be watching an […]
My sleep’s been a little off-kilter the past week or two. I am not sure why this is – I am clearly not under any major stress, other than a little bit of the holiday blues. I am also eating regular meals, taking my vitamins, and feeding my brain with the delicious zombie-killing enjoyment of […]
One of the biggest lessons I’ve had to learn over the past few months is how to start over. Again. I did it at the beginning of 2007, and then again later that year, both times for game development career challenges. And I knew the deal when I took it, this fall. When I said […]
As I mentioned a couple days ago, my father died almost a year ago. It was a horrible time, full of stress so profound that all of it feels like another lifetime, another person in my body, moving from day to day in a blue-grey fog of sheer terror. It was difficult, I think, to […]