So. New number. *poing* Add me, message me! You know you want to... really... *chuckles*

Also! http://www.llewellyn.com/witchwriter.html is the address for Llewellyn's latest publishing wants; they are looking for essays, true stories, and musings on the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of being a teen witch. There's a July 31 deadline for submissions, but seriously, if you're a wiccan/pagan and either currently a teen or remember being one, SUBMIT! Being published by Llewellyn is a decent feather in any author's cap, and hey, you may help the teens that follow you. *smile* I'm gonna look through my stuff and see if I've got anything, or at least any useful ideas as to what I could write.

Oh... Trinian, Kadin, Caleb (who I will bully into doing this), Torian, Spike, Grr, Daris, Hida, and Fern (if you have ICQ)... PLEASE add me, because you guys are the ones I talk to most often under most circumstances and dammit, I don't have your ICQ numbers any more. *poutpout*

Ack. "When Doves Cry", off of the Romeo + Juliet soundtrack, just started playing. Somewhere in between depressing and beautiful... *sighs softly*

It's a bit easier, being alone here than alone at home. At home, I get to thinking about how many people I CAN'T see and get depressed, then want to go see the ones I CAN see and get more depressed 'cause that's usually impractical. Here, I can see Caleb soon, and really can't see anyone else... it seems to simplify things. Damned if I know why. *shrugs*

All the same, I DO wish that there were people I knew around here. I want to sit on the floor and play Magic with Kadin and maybe Torian (have you ever played Magic, pet?), then hop online to do webwork or online tutoring while the two pets clean up a bit, then play... Caleb gets home eventually, and all four of us go out to dinner somewhere, laughing and joking and having fun... then home again, Caleb and I curled up together on the bed, Torian and Kadin asleep in the cage or out on the porch.

Now I need to explain about the porch. See, our porch here is an excellent cage in and of itself, it's this INCREDIBLE bunch of ironwork that reaches up to the roof, set into a low concrete wall that surrounds the whole porch, windows down at floor-level that make excellent pet doors, and a door that locks from inside the house, of course. It's a beautiful thing, lots of room, six people could sleep on it easily, maybe more, and it would make a perfect full-time cage for pets since it's always decent weather here, or damned close. If it ever DID get cold the pets in question could, of course, be allowed back inside to curl up at the foot of the bed or on sofas or wherever. *grins* Oh, and there are eyebolts in the ceiling. Someone had FUN planning out this apartment.