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So, I was offshore bobbing like a cork on an oil rig in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico over the Halloween holiday.  I get home and HOLY Jesus Mary and Joseph there's  bakers dozen comments on my story "All that haunts me still."  I am surprised, because this is a story from many moons ago, when I didn't have a kid to raise or quite the antics and insanity in my personal life, and I expected that the story was mostly dead and wouldn't be getting regular comments as it was an old deviation.

Boy was I wrong.

Thank you to anyone who added me as a deviant watch, and thank you to those who favorited the story or sent me a llama.  (  :-D  )  

I should probably actually write something new.  Maybe I will, maybe I won't, or maybe I'll drop a few more of my amatuerish images on my gallery.

-JKR

You know, even if I have been as silent as Casey Anthony since her trial concluded, I logged into my page today to see a Barack Obama banner advertisement at the top of my page.

I don't think I've ever wanted to throw up more.  Not because I'm anti Obama (I am) but because I am anti-politician. (I am very much so.)  

Anyway, that's it for my rant, I am back to lurking in the shadows.

Wow.  I'm kind of in shock.

I've been silent for a long time.  Work has carried me from the US Gulf of Mexico to Geoji-do, South Korea, and as a result my life has been a hectic melange of work and travel and the occasional party.

No, I'm not done writing... but I have been on sabbatical for some time to recharge batteries and deal with life and a new daughter and all the other things that make the world turn about us.  

But a second daily deviation was unexpected... awesome and very humbling, and I thank everyone who commented and favorited.

Well, tomorrow brings 20 hours of flight back to the States... so I am off to bed.

So.  The reason for my prolonged absences was theft.  Someone ganked my laptop a few months ago in New Orleans.  Now I have a new machine and hopefully I'll have more time to write, seeing as how I've been completely tied up with moving and settling into a new home I have been completely derelict in my duty as author.

Someone needs to shoot the guy who stole my machine, then shoot me and put me out of my misery.

-K

Well.  I'm finally in my new home, and they finally got the internet set up here, so now it's off to work Tuesday.  Unpacking, setting up my office, all that boring bullshit has to more or less dominate my time for the next month or two when I'm not at work - which sucks of course because no one wants to live out of cardboard - but it's essential.

I'm still toying with a lot of ideas, looking for something good to write, got several pieces in various stages of progress, but damnit this move has taken me forever.

We did take the weekend off and went up to Miracle Hotsprings outside of Twin Falls, Idaho, and that was a very relaxing side trip, but I couldn't really relax.  I kept thinking about all the work I had left to do back home.  

I've got to go to Houston in two days, and I am soooo not ready for this.  Sometimes I love my job, like when they tell me I'm getting a pay raise, and then other times I just wish I could win the lottery so I wouldn't have to deal with the fucked up schedule.  It's not the work, never has been, it's always the inconvenient timing.

I am on a great adventure.