Posting here is like visiting my old high school or hanging out with a co-worker on the weekend. I’m a little uncomfortable, edgy, unnecessarily cautious, and suspicious of my own motivations. I keep changing the site’s theme, renaming categories, editing posts, deleting some, rewriting others, and filling up my “drafts” folder so that now its count is higher than what’s published. I can compare what I’m doing best to a comment made regarding my step-mother’s redecoration of the family home. “It feels over-decorated and under-lived in.” In other words, a whole lot of neurotic with a dash of creepy.
I’ve been busy doing things I don’t like to talk about, which is unacceptable, as it breaks one of my own (un)tarnished Golden Rule(s). They’re pretty basic: Don’t do anything I’m ashamed of, anything that will later require an apology, or anything that’ll cost me a little time in jail. Oh, and avoid liars, asshats, lunatics, motherfuckers, bastards, the vindictive, and the mean. Sounds easy enough, eh?
I’m remembering what I forgot to remind myself to remember. (This sentence is more painful to think than read, I assure you.)
I miss this space. I forgot what it meant to me. I allowed myself to be distracted by things unworthy of my time. Shit happens. I’m over it. As I’ve said once or twice…this pointless space is mine. I’m okay being a little uncomfortable until I get used to it again. Because, ultimately, I live a life I don’t mind talking about.

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July 22, 2008 at 1:34 pm
John Cottonwood
So am I to assume you did something to an asshat, who then took you to court over it, and asshats being asshats, he made some bastardly comment during testimony that caused you to blurt something — something you’re now ashamed of having blurted in front of a judge — and even though the veracity of your blurt was not in question, you refused to let it go, prompting the judge to charge you with contempt of court, a charge made more serious by your refusal to apologize, which of course landed you in jail, disconnected from cyberspace, unable to update your blog, &c, &c., until you dug a tunnel using the shards of a Leonard Cohen CD and Shawshanked your way to freedom?
Well who _hasn’t_ done that before? Go easy on yourself, Lily.
July 24, 2008 at 3:12 am
Lily
There’s no Shawshanking your way to freedom with Leonard Cohen.
There are moments in life so absurd the retelling of them sound unbelievable to the person whose experiences inspired the tales. Recent high-lights of my life include psycho-ex-girlfriends, P.I.’s, restraining orders, homicide detectives, and a bag full of human bones (purchased at a “bone store”.)
The good news, however, is no contempt of court charges, jail time, or escape tunnels. (Always look on the bright side of life.)
July 24, 2008 at 3:46 pm
John Cottonwood
Ah yes, the “Bone Room.” If you’re lookin’ for a dash of creepy, that’s probably a good place to start. But your unbelievable recent experiences sound more Thorogood than Cohen…
I walked forty-seven miles of barbed wire. I got a cobra snake for a necktie. A brand new house on the road side, and it’s a-made out of rattlesnake hide. Got a brand new chimney put on top, and it’s a-made out of human skull.
Come on take a little walk with me baby, and tell me who do you love?