Gack this is long!!!

I've been going over all my old entries and making them "friends only" and it's taking for-freaking-ever! I never realised how much I'd written until I had to go back and modify it all. Gads, but I'm a chatty wench. I average something like forty posts a month, April has nearly sixty entries in it, and I don't even post every day! *faints* At least I'll never have to do this particular chore ever again.

Good thing no one has to read it all at once, or they'd go stark raving mad. Not to mention that a lot of it seems to be quizzes or depressed rambling. Or bitching about work, although there's less of that at the start of the LiveJournal entries (since I was at first jobless and then was enamoured of my newfound employed status).

It is making me realise that I've come a fair way since then (my LiveJournal will be a year old at the end of February), which is a plus.

I worked my way backwards for a time, and then I decided to go back to last February and start going forwards. I'm working on March now, and then all that will be left is April. I think I may do April over the course of two or three days, though. It really is mind-numbing work to go and "edit" an entry just to put it to "friends only." Not to mention that there's often the added frustration of LJ error messages or proxy server errors or remote side access errors and what have you, which make the work even longer and more tedious. I hate having to edit the same thing three or four times because the changes aren't properly saved. *grumble*

Had lunch with firewillow today, which was cut short mostly because I was late and partly because she had to get back to work a bit early to do some sanity-testing.

Went to visit the Maternal Unit and found her in a mad flap as she was expecting the people for whom she's working on a campaign presentation, so I basically left her to her own devices and puttered around the apartment all afternoon. Did the aforementioned internet t00bage, then once the Chinese hordes (as we jokingly call them) left, I drove her to buy tonight's dinner (broiled trout, yay!), and came back in time to finish this entry.

Will now save and go help her prepare dinner.

First lines meme

I have found that I am incapable of narrowing this down to anything reaching a reasonable level, so I'm just going to inflict everything I can think of that I like on y'all. Behind a cut tag, of course. Also, I'm not restricting myself to just the first sentence, because sometimes you need more than that to make your point. :) Am going to let you people guess at some of them, will post up the answers later.


"Jacob Blunt was my last patient. He came into my office wearing a scarlet hibiscus in his curly blond hair. He sat down in the easy chair across from my desk, and said, 'Doctor, I think I'm losing my mind' "

( The rest of 'em! )