Alenda Lux

I’ve changed the theme and I’ve pruned the blogroll; if you’ve been wrongly deleted, let me know.

1. Darling Nikki, 2. On the Lamb…, 3. (Old) Dawson County Courthouse, 4. Pink Pigeon, 5. John Legend, 6. Vanilla Porter, 7. Seycehelles (Playboy Beach), 8. Limoncello Dessert, 9. Released to Public: “First Lady Astronaut Trainee” Jerrie Cobb (NASA), 10. The Cats are Happy to See Thomas, 11. smart car parking 101, 12. Davidson College Campus – Chambers Building

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To do it yourself:

The concept:
1. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
2. Using only the first page of results, and pick one image.
3. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into Big Huge Lab’s Mosaic Maker to create a mosaic of the picture answers.

The questions:
1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food? right now?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. What is your favorite drink?
7. What is your dream vacation?
8. What is your favorite dessert?
9. What do you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. What is one word that describes you?
12. What is your flickr name?

Yes, there is a photo there that is actually mine. It came up in the first page of results, so I used it. Kind of neat!

So, . . . blogging’s been light.

You were expecting, it so I thought I would give it to you.

It’s been pretty crazy around here. I turned on the TV for the first time in three or four weeks to WATCH IT TODAY. I’ve turned it on a couple times to do DDR, but then I stopped getting even seven hours of sleep a night (which I really need) so DDR has gone right out. Also, my cats now do not think I am going to NEVER! COME! HOME! AGAIN! because I sat on the couch and watched Clean Sweep with them this morning. And then the Heroes premier.

By the way, it was my birthday. A week ago this past Monday. I got lots of great gifts – things I wanted and will use (Thank you Zip!!) – and I’ve been meaning to take a photo of the loot and post about it, but hey! I’ve been working 12-13 or 14 hour days (8 at work, the rest at the theatre) for probably three weeks. Thomas managed to put together a surprise birthday party for me, and I’m surprised I stayed awake for it. (It was a fun party, which I nearly torpedoed to go home and sleep. Yes really.)

The play opened last night, which is why I suddenly have so much free time. Thomas and I figured out this past week that when we scheduled this show, we compressed the schedule by two or three weeks. Never, ever again. I can’t do it on this kind of schedule – it’s just too much. I’ve never been so shagged out by the process as I am now – and I slept for nine or ten hours last night. All in all, though, things seem to be going well – so there’s that.

So yes, I am alive. And the show is up this weekend and the next two, so you should come see it.

I think it’s funny that since I posted last night and also this morning, I’m going to sit here and write about why I don’t post so much anymore.

Over New Year’s, our friends Cort and Julie were here. Jules and I have a pretty detailed history of disagreement, but in the last couple years she’s come around to my way of thinking. While she was here she said to me, “I think I’m more angry with Bush now than you are.” Well, for one thing, she has the right to be, for reasons that I won’t disclose because they aren’t mine TO disclose, and for another, I was piping hot mad for so long, I just don’t have the energy for it anymore. Yes, I still wake up and hear his idiotic voice on the radio and mutter “asshole,” before my feet even hit the floor. Yes, I still think (and think more than ever actually) that he’s the tool of everyone’s worst enemy, the dominionists, who scare the shit out of me. But I don’t have the energy for it anymore.

See, the thing is that I don’t really think that I’m changing anyone’s mind here with my silly little blog. I barely believe that anyone reads it (and not that I blame them, since I — har har — update so infrequently). And, even if anyone did read it, I don’t know that I have the emotional fortitude to write and then defend my beliefs in the way I should do, if I’m going to take it upon myself to write about it at all. I just don’t have the time. I’m perfectly happy to discuss my beliefs with people, but if I were dealing with all the motherfucking trolls that Amber deals with, much less a full-scale A-list blog like Pandagon, I would go crazy. I mean, really. I have a day job and I have Drama Club and I have fifty gabillion projects I need to finish. I don’t need an unpaid gig as political pundit.

So, I don’t know. I guess this is all to say that I’m currently thinking about the future of this blog and its utility to me, and whether I think it’s worth it to attempt to maintain the site and whatnot. On the one hand, I don’t want to give up what little writing I still do, but on the other, I don’t really do so much of it that I think it matters enough to have its own URL. On the other hand, I really dislike feeling obligated to the blog, as if there is something Bad and Wrong about me that I don’t update, or that I don’t write anything of substance. I mean, I know that my three readers LOVE hearing about Daksha’s teeth cleaning (went well, thanks) but there is a point where cat-blogging reaches heights that make it just a notch or two above (or below I suppose) mommy-blogging of the worst order. And God knows I dont need some other poor benighted soul asking me when I’m trading in the cats for toddlers. Oy.

Ever since the Great Template Swap of 2005, I’ve felt so-so about the blue background. So today, on the eve of my departure, I have changed it to grey. And I think it looks better. Ciao, suckers!

I got bored with being purple, so I begged and cajoled Thomas into hacking me up a new theme. What you’re looking at now is based on Jennifer Ledbetter’s Dixie Belle Theme over at Geeks Make Me Hot Dot Com.