Bit of a mass update here.

1) My computer's dead, hard-drive fried; and my mother's laptop is fritz'd as well. We're left with only the broken-down old iMac upon which I'm typing this now. Computerma, if you would!

2) I'm going to Berlin! I've been invited to a conference for young German and Polish writers, along with two or three other American high-school-age writers. I'll leave in late November. Dude.

3) This was a while ago-- but Reema came here for eleven days in August and got to meet my family, see my house, talk in person, etc. She's gone again but I'm still riding the residual glee. I'm so in love. I am so happy.

Things are good. Except for the hard drive's non-recoverable data. But, but!

Have been greyish for the last week or so, and will be darkest charcoal until Saturday, when I return from a writers' retreat. Email is a go, but that's about all on their available dialup.

Housecat Tisha has been missing for a week. There were some sightings of her in the neighbourhood, according to calls my homemade flyers have attracted, but none recently and she has not yet returned.

I am worried - she is getting very old for a cat (11+) and the Blue-Eyed Boy misses her a lot. I do not want to have to explain cat heaven to him at this point.

Please direct some Homeward Bound-ma this way. Thanks.

I'm going black until Oct. 6, leaving Maine tomorrow am and heading for Pittsburgh. Perkins and DX are the most fun ever! And ND, of course.

I found out yesterday that I've been accepted to a month-long course to study abroad in Rome for the month of January. Needless to say, I'm wicked excited.

DX and Perkins, multiple insents to email re car, also see Natter 6540.

Hey there. I'm running in my First! Ever! marathon this Sunday, October 5, starting at 8 a.m. and ending (hopefully) by 1 p.m. CDT.

So, may I request strong running vibes for that time period on Sunday? I'll be dark until after the marathon, but Buffista vibes are powerful stuff.

Thanks!

I'll be going semi-dark starting tomorrow--I'm driving east to visit my mom and big brother in southern NJ, with an overnight visit at my uncle's in Ohio. I will be able to get on my mom's computer occasionally, though. (Oh, Brenda M and ChiKat--insent re: LotR marathon!)

I'm back from my North East excursion! I had a wonderful time and am so glad that I got to hang out with so many Buffistas, I love all of you!

I'm still going to be somewhat gray though as I've got over 900 emails to go through in my main account and another 250+ in my school account along with a few designs that are kicking in now. I'm available by my profile addy and would love to hear from folks, I'm also usually on AIM, ICQ, and Yahoo Messanger and all of those are in my profile, I don't think I'll be caught up here for at least a week though.

I'm back from being hurricaned, getting belt-tested at my new juijitsu school, and having the AVM on my arm detonate to the point I couldn't type. And then having some sort of death-flu.

Of the good, I got ranked as a senior student and can type again. But like ND, I'll be lurking/catching up for about a week.