Now that everyone's given up on me and taken me off of their link pages, I would respectfully like to announce my return. Thanks for holding; did the music bother you?
Let me come right out and say that I am nowhere near done with the background work for my novel. Verybad things happened while I was gone. If I haven't told you about it already, don't sweat it: I'm not going to. The situation's not completely resolved, and the wounds are far too fresh. I am, however, reminded of a cheesy little keychain I got that had my name and a poem about the meaning of my name on it:
Tho' gentleness demands,
All kindness be repaid,
When unjustly wrong'd,
A warrior maid.Derek and I are still together, we are still living in the same place, and the band is doing fine for the moment. So stop worrying.
Marie had her baby — he's 5 lbs and 6 oz; very small to me, but Marie says it's fairly normal. He looked so tiny and fragile. I could never have one of those. She wanted a natural childbirth but the baby's heart rate dropped during labor so they performed a c-section on her. She's going to be sore for a while. I can't imagine having someone cut into my guts to pull out a kid, no matter how badly I wanted it.
The kid's name is Reyes Xavier Galvin, which I think is a perfectly stupid name. That kid's gonna be mocked. I hope they home-school him. He's cute right now, I guess. Have I mentioned the fact that he's tiny? His eyes are the dark blue that turn brown later. Too bad they won't stay that blue (not that I have anything against brown eyes, but this blue beats all the natural eye colors I have seen thus far).
I want to write something chatty, something funny, but I really can't right now. I'm just starting to breathe again. Instead, maybe I'll post up a fragment of one of my conversations with Dirk, edited.
AlvaughGoldbuch (2:44:46 PM): dirk don't know.....he's
throwing things
agentskttr (2:44:57 PM): Really?
agentskttr (2:45:05 PM): :-(
agentskttr (2:46:34 PM): Dirk? Did he hurt you?
agentskttr (2:47:21 PM): Dirk?
agentskttr (2:47:23 PM): Dirk?
AlvaughGoldbuch (2:47:38 PM): buoo
agentskttr (2:47:49 PM): Did he hurt you? IS he really
mad?
AlvaughGoldbuch (2:47:58 PM): dirk died for a second
agentskttr (2:48:06 PM): What?
AlvaughGoldbuch (2:48:21 PM): ern had to bring me back
to life so he could throw some more stuff at me
agentskttr (2:48:49 PM): He threw stuff at you? You tell
him to stop that. Was he really throwing stuff?
AlvaughGoldbuch (2:49:16 PM): yes,,,,, he knocked the
printer off the table......ern's evil.
agentskttr (2:49:25 PM): Really?
agentskttr (2:49:30 PM): You're not making this up?
AlvaughGoldbuch (2:49:32 PM): see what dirk has to put
up with when OJ's gone
AlvaughGoldbuch (2:50:47 PM): no, of course not. would
dirk make this stuff up.....hmm......dirk's hurt to think
that OJ's thinks dirk would
agentskttr (2:51:41 PM): Dirk-doo.
agentskttr (2:51:48 PM): Dirk would do just to scare poor
OJ.
agentskttr (2:51:50 PM): Meah.
AlvaughGoldbuch (2:52:30 PM): buoo.....well dirk is
blind now in dirk left eye
AlvaughGoldbuch (2:52:39 PM): ern threw knife at dirk
agentskttr (2:53:52 PM): What? Ern did not. Ern knows
better than to screw up the carpet that way. Besides,
shouldn't you call an ambulance?
AlvaughGoldbuch (2:54:40 PM): dirk don't wanna
AlvaughGoldbuch (2:54:57 PM): OJ's mean to dirk......and
so is ern
AlvaughGoldbuch (2:55:07 PM): ern still wants to check
Okay, actually, you know what? Everyone calls me OJ. If you didn't know you knew me before, but you know me now, tough shit. I'm damn well not going to take out every single OJ in that conversation.
That conversation, btw, is typical of the conversations we have, without the eye-stabbing and stuff. I'm sure the third-person speak is rather disturbing, but we've gotten used to it.
Okay, enough revelations. Have a good day. If I'm feeling up to it, I might write again soon.
