A brief update of my recent life

Last Saturday I went to Wisconsin to be an extra for Midnight Chronicles again. Spent the day as a filthy peasant walking up and down a road, petted horses & a sheep, and got growled at by orcs. Good times. vorrant, jmanna, davedujour, and scotiagirl were also there.

When I got home Saturday night I washed off the peasant filth and headed over to geohard & realsarah's Halloween bash with hellbob. We saw lots of people there that we like. But I was tired and it was getting late so we headed back home to hit our neighbor's party for a while. I was *really* tired by that point so we came home.

Sunday was mostly a lazy day of reading the interwebs, watching tv (the TiVo was WAAAAY full!) and folding laundry. Unfortunately I got a headache right around bedtime and despite taking drugs it turned into an OMG I AM GOING TO DIE RIGHT NOW! level of headache. And then I threw up. That's the second time in less than two months that I have had a headache so bad it made me puke. That had never happened before the last time. hellbob got pretty worried about me and if it happens again we're getting me to the doctor.

School is still going good. Doesn't seem like there's enough time to get my stuff done though.

Y'all already saw my picspam from the birding trip. It was fun and the lens I'd gotten from work was awesome!

This Friday I'll be going to the book release party at Dreamhaven for the other Sharon's book, Disapproving Rabbits.

And we're only a week and a half away from OmegaCon! Hooray! Relaxation!

And tomorrow is Halloween. It is the first Halloween in 5 or 6 years that I won't be wearing pajamas to work. Oh the humanity!

hellziggy's not-so-normal life

So there was this new character introduced on Bones last week. He's played by John Francis Daley from Freaks & Geeks:


He seemed familiar besides the whole "he's on tv thing" and I finally placed it. He was reminding me of the first boy I ever officially "went steady" with back when I was in 10th grade, R.
This is what R. looked like when I dated him (crappy quality because I took a picture of a picture instead of dragging out the scanner):


Yeah, some resemblance. Skinny, dark messy hair, kinda geeky.

But what R. looks like today? I know there are some of you out there who I've mentioned this to. For many years it was an abstract thing that I had briefly heard about in the news but didn't really have any confirmation on.
Thanks to the wonders of the interwebs though, I did a Google search a while back for his full name and I got one hit. Yes, only one. Because someone who has been in prison since 1990 really doesn't have a web presence other than the Minnesota Department of Corrections offender locator page.
Here he is boys & girls, my first official boyfriend:

I'm not sure how old the picture is. He went to prison when he was 21 and he is 38 now.
It's a very surreal thing for me to think about...