Whoops, I'm almost late with this! For some reason I thought it was tomorrow.

Happy birthday m_c_t! I hope your birthday was great, and I’m sorry I didn’t get happy birthday wishes to you in time for you to actually see them on your birthday. Hugs and warm wishes!

Hi. Still looking for a housemate for my place in Quincy. I’ve reduced the rent to $400.00/mo. all utilities included. Know anybody who needs a place to stay, but hasn’t been able to find anybody willing to take them with that serial axe-murder conviction on their record? Point ’em my way; better dead than foreclosed, right?

My current Craigslist posting (now with photos) will expire in a week, so for reference after that point, the text of that posting is below the cut.

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Happy almost-belated birthday to wildraven (and thanks to majes for calling it to my attention).

There are many reasons I miss living with docorion, and this little essay of his on death and his relationship to it as an emergency physician reminds me of some of them.

I know that 2009 was pretty horrid for a lot of people. One way we might make 2010 a bit better is to spread some love around. So if you care to reply to this post I will give you a response of something I like about you.

(I may be a bit pokey about getting to these, but I will get to them eventually.)

I am so far behind in posting about what’s been going on with me that I’m probably never going to catch up. However, I have to say that in my humble opinion, today’s performance of Red Shift, Interplanetary Do-Gooder when extremely well.

I had a bit part (or maybe two, depending how you count; I played two personalities of a personality-changing computer), and plumtreeblossom got to reprise and expand her rôle as Billy, the Cereal Kid, an annoying fictional fan of the even more fictional radio drama. I had a really great time, and the audience loved the show. It was full of pop-culture references (and even some highbrow literary references) that the audience ate up, and it was a lot of fun to do. My congratulations to the rest of the cast, and especially to the crack writing and production team. (By which I mean they are good at what they do, not that they are on crack.)

It’s a pleasantly weird experience to do a show that is only performed once. I’m used to projects where the performances stretch out over several days, so rehearsal is a phase, and then performance is another phase. In this case, rehearsal was a phase, and performance was an instant. It had a strange kind of satisfaction about it.

Didn’t get to see much of the rest of Arisia (aside from the well stocked and well run green room), but I got to wave at some people, catch up briefly with a friend from college, and listen (and dance) to an awesome band who was setting up and doing sound testing in the same space when we were getting ready. (I don’t know whether to call her/them a band or a performer, because her web site refers to her as one person, but there were definitely two performers on stage; I’m not sure if the cellist is a regular part of the act or was just part of this performance. Anyway, they were a lot of fun to listen to and I wish I could have stayed to hear the full performance, and SJ Tucker has awesome taste in clothes.)

Happy Birthday ka9sqb

Happy birthday to my wonderful stepfather ka9sqb, one of the kindest and smartest and most honorable people I know, somebody who you can always count on for a fascinating conversation on pretty much any topic you care to name, and somebody who makes my mother very happy. Don, I am glad and lucky to have you in my family.

So I had my first migraine yesterday. I was very very lucky: it was quite short (only about 40min before it was mostly over), very mild, and it was the kind that does not involve much pain! (I know about those because sionnagh used to get them. Took years before she learned what they were, since you think of a migraine as involving, you know, a headache.)

( Details, of interest to me just because I’d never experienced it before. )

I hope this is not the start of a trend, although if they’re all that mild, it won’t be much of a problem.

Oh, and rehearsal was loads of fun!

My spare room is still available. I’m now asking $350/month plus half utilities (excluding Internet, since my net access is crazy expensive), and if you’d rather have completely predictable expenses on a fixed schedule, you can instead rent it for $500/mo with all utilities included.

Here’s the Craigslist ad.

Feel free to pass along to anybody you think might be a good housemate.

So plumtreeblossom and I (and docorion and many other people we know) were quoted extensively in a great story on polyamory in today’s Boston Globe magazine. The print edition has photos of me and docorion as well as the photo of Alan and Michelle that’s on the online edition. The online version (linked above) has a video that docorion and Alan (W.) and Michelle were interviewed for which is, if possible, even better than the article — at any rate, I think it does a great job of presenting polyamory effectively to non-poly people in a way that lets the warmth of the relationships and lives described shine through. I am really pleased about how it all turned out.

PS: Alan M. discusses the article at his blog Poly in the Media, and Kamela reviews it favorably in her Boston Open Relationships Examiner column.