Áine ([info]sevenstar) wrote,
@ 2007-03-14 00:37:00
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Current mood: busy

I'm not dead... yet.
*grin*

Been over a year since I wandered through the door over here. Long time, no see.

How have you been?

- Áine


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[info]lupabitch
2007-03-14 04:47 am UTC (link)
Hey there :) Long time no see! Well, in a nutshell--married to [info]teriel and still madly in love; living in Seattle, moving to Portland in the next couple of months; A Field Guide to Otherkin should be out in a couple of weeks; still making artwork and ritual tools; and still hopelessly addicted to LJ :P

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[info]sevenstar
2007-03-14 04:49 am UTC (link)
And still busy as heck, too, I bet. :)

Book's coming out in a couple of weeks? Cool! Can't wait to see what it looks like.

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[info]lupabitch
2007-03-14 05:05 am UTC (link)
Of course! Though in need of a little R&R--been way too hard on my body lately, and I may end up taking a bit of a sabbatical after the move if finances allow.

So will we get an update on you, or is this just a random "Hi, I'm alive" kinda post?

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[info]sevenstar
2007-03-14 05:41 am UTC (link)
Well... it's been a year, and I've spent most of it keeping a column over at Newsvine, and have managed to work my way into becoming one of the top columnists over there. The site gets about a half a million unique users per month, so that's not too shabby, eh? I also created the Help Group there, so I answer a lot of questions and stuff.

My son, the Marine, is very likely headed off to war sometime this summer. So, we have to get busy and make that stop ASAP. :)

I'm still in love with the same person I was a year ago, and things are better than ever. *big grin*

I'm pushing for hearings on the Sibel Edmonds case (FBI whistleblower). And I've been corresponding privately with her on a somewhat irregular basis. She's a very nice lady, and I do think she's telling the truth... something we all need to hear about.

I've been invited to Tasmania later this year, but I'm still making up my mind about whether I'm going or not. If I go, I'll have a place to stay and people to hang out with, etc. But first, I need to make sure the person who made the offer to pay for my plane ticket was really, really serious about the offer, because -dayum- that's expensive. ;)

Not too much else I can think of that's different.

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[info]lupabitch
2007-03-14 03:18 pm UTC (link)
*grin* Glad you're keeping yourself out of boredom! Thanks for the Newsvine link--now I have access to even more stuff that may not show up on the front page, but is important nonetheless.

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[info]starlightforest
2007-03-14 05:12 am UTC (link)
Another nutshell: Went to Canada for six months, couldn't get enough work, came back to California, trying the immigration thing the other way around now that I have full time employment here again.

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[info]sevenstar
2007-03-14 05:43 am UTC (link)
I expected to hear that you were there and living happily ever after... Long damned process, eh? Stupid bureaucracy.

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[info]starlightforest
2007-03-14 06:14 am UTC (link)
It was fun, but the area where he lives doesn't have enough population to support a high turnover in most job fields. Even together we couldn't get "moving-out" wage. I decided to cut losses and come back here where there are lots more job opportunities, both for me in my academic/service type thing, and for him even not having a BS CompSci (which in his town is de facto required, since one of Canada's major universities for that degree is right there - so many people have it that if you don't, they don't want you). Even so I am $15,000 poorer than I was at this point last year. *shrug*

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[info]sevenstar
2007-03-14 06:20 am UTC (link)
And even if he had the BSCompSci, he'd still have to be Whiz Kid with straight A's to compete with all the others there. :/

You might be poorer money-wise, but richer in many other ways. I kind of have to think of things in that way... it makes me a very wealthy woman when I do. *grin*

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[info]rhiannasilel
2007-03-14 07:23 pm UTC (link)
Hey, how's it going? Was wondering if you were still around.

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[info]sevenstar
2007-03-14 07:47 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, I'm still kickin'... mostly doing news/politics these days (but actually, I've been doing that for years on various sites).

Latest update: Newsvine is coordinating with NewAssignment.net in a project called Assignment Zero, that has to do with Citizen Journalism. We're just getting organized at this point, since the announcement just came out a couple of hours ago.

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