http://amikolle.com/blog Natural, irrational, and very important. Mon, 03 May 2010 15:03:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I love to read. I don't mean that in a I-pick-up-the-latest-Oprah-recommended-book-to-read-at-the-pool kind of way, I mean I am kind of obsessed with reading. When I was younger, my parents believed that reading was a means to an end...you have to know how to read well in order to ... http://amikolle.com/blog/2010/05/making-my-way-to-osgiliath/ Writing has always been cathartic for me. When I write about an event, a person important to me, somehow I am able to process it in a way that makes more sense to me. And yet I have been avoiding putting pen to paper, or fingers to keys. ... http://amikolle.com/blog/2010/04/dreaming-my-dreams/ So Badr and I talked about it a month or so ago, and we came to an agreement... Between me going crazy at home and us having no $ to spare, like, at all, hahaha, I needed to find my ass a job. So I have been applying ... http://amikolle.com/blog/2009/10/semi-employable/ After Bear left, I was pretty depressed. His being here reminded me of all the things I so desperately missed about him. And while I was certainly glad to have him, the fallout was more intense than I had prepared myself for. I was thinking about this a lot ... http://amikolle.com/blog/2009/09/melancholy-musings/ Ok, so apparently I got lost in some sub-light transfer somewhere. Yeah, that's it. That's why I haven't posted a damn word in 4 months. Hell, that makes as much sense as the real reason, which is that I missed one day, and then I got all guilty-like, and ... http://amikolle.com/blog/2009/08/doubleyew-tee-eff/ When I was in middle school, I was a nerd. I don't mean that in a "smart and good with computers" way. No, if I had been a boy, I would have had a pocket protector. When I broke the earpiece on my glasses (which were ugly ... http://amikolle.com/blog/2009/06/violets-and-a-fox-skull/ Earlier this afternoon, I was standing in my shower, laughing so hard I was crying. Not because there was someone there telling me amusing anecdotes, or because I was reading (yes, in the shower, I like books that much). That would be too SANE. No, I was ... http://amikolle.com/blog/2009/06/is-your-wife-a-goer-is-she-nudgenudgewinkwink/ Now, I'm not being harsh on myself here. I've never been a thin girl, but there's a difference between being on the heavy side of average and being, well, fat. Which I am at this point. I'm not the type to sit around all day stuffing donuts and bon-bons ... http://amikolle.com/blog/2009/06/of-unusual-size/ Ok, so it used to be that I considered myself pretty tech-savvy. I mean, I worked in IT doing tech support and designing websites, and I really wasn't the "Manager Who Really Has No Idea What's Going On". I was perfectly capable of going out and fixing someone's ... http://amikolle.com/blog/2009/06/yeesh-when-did-this-happen/ I've lived in or around Baltimore, MD, for most of my life, except for 2 years in Chapel Hill, NC, when Bear was a wee babe. I love Baltimore. It's diverse, sometimes bizarre, often dirty or dilapidated, and it's damn interesting. I love the people on the ... http://amikolle.com/blog/2009/05/texas-its-big-and-pretty-flat/