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I know I keep saying I'll get to KittyHawk and POWYHL, and I will! Really! Unfortunately I've had some muse issues lately, and I'm looking at three busy weekends in a row. This upcoming weekend I'll be at Sac-Anime, an Anime/Manga convention in Sacramento. Then I have a doctors appointment the next day to find out why a couple of body parts I'm looking forward to being rid of have been hurting lately. Then the bowling league I'm in with my brother, sister, and father starts back up again the next day.

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I'll take Manhattan

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I spent last night at the Epilepsy Center of the New York Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan. After a delightful hour of getting hooked up to electrodes and such, I enjoyed and hour and a half of uninterrupted writing, and I was glad for it; I can't wait to write when I'm not writing, and I can't wait to finish when I am. The most curious thing; the technician was a nice young man who actually had the same kind of face as Ben Kelly, my counselor character and alter-ego of Katie Kelly.

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Mille grazie!

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Another foray into the Big Apple for a Video EEG and Sleep Study to help diagnose the tremors. I had a conversation with a good friend of mine who is a physician as well as a fabulous musician. He confirmed that my previous medication could have caused the tremors. And another medical professional explained to my beautiful bride that the tremors may not be uncommon for someone of my....ahem....age. Thank you to everyone who has been so supportive and loving at this time, since I am scared and sad.

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Settling and return to writing.

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Just a post to let everyone know I finally found a job. Over the next two weeks I am my family will be settling into a new apartment. I ended up having to go out to the Midland-Odessa area to find a job, but it will do nicely I think.

With the issue of job hunting finally off the table, I am able to devote time and mind to writing again. I am hoping to have chapter 20 of A Little Fox Tale completed by the end of next week.
 


Hugs,
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Strange Fruit

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The other night I had a conversation where females competing in sports came up. I mentioned that it wasn't that many years ago that women were prevented from running long distance races in the Olympics for fear their ovaries/uretus would drop out.

Can anyone lead me to confirmation of this? I really think this was the prevailing CW in the sixties.

Jill

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South African teen wins 800 amid gender-test flap - Olympics - Yahoo! Sports

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http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/news?slug=ap-worlds-gendert...

I saw this on the Yahoo main page, and I thoght that we as a family should read this article. I for one, wish her the best.

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Children

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In the book of Genesis, Leah says, "Give me children or I will die." Our stories and our characters are our children. When Jill said that her stories sucked, it was said out of frustration and hurt, and likely borne out of the actions of others that were misunderstood or misinterpreted. Nevertheless, it does hurt when our children are ignored; try being a parent when your little girl or boy isn't invited to the party or included in kickball or tag.

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Update

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My Echo went well on my heart(at least I think so) My heart rate was close to normal today and the test went rather quickly. Anyone who has ever had this test done knows that they make you wear that awful gown with the front open. It was just as cold. My nipples were standing at full attention LOL!. I spent a couple minutes cleaning gel off of my breasts( I just hate anything slimy Ewww!!!) I got to school and the Financial Aid people ruined most of the rest of my day by splitting my grant in half and awarding an exact amount for each semester.

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Chopping Block

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Well I found out today that my boss has to eleminate one full time position from our department. One of our senior guys is going to retire after he has some surgeries but if that is not soon enough then someone will have to be laid off. Now senority is not suposed to exist is the hospital where I work but it does. If they deside to go by senority then my neck will be on the chopping block. I have been there for 8 years with the execption of a few months in 2007, but even that leaves me in last place as all the other full timers have been there longer in one postion or another.

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About me...

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I've often vowed never to start a blog, as I'm sure I wouldn't find enough "stuff" to fill it with, let alone make it interesting enough to avoid curing insomnia. However, I'm willing to give (almost!) anything a try, so here goes nothing...

By now you're probably wondering who the heck this strange creature which suddenly invaded the comments of several BCTS stories a few weeks ago is. If not, click back and find something more interesting to read.

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Life Sucks

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Life sucks every day I wake up and get out of bed
Life sucks every time I pick up my meds
Life sucks all the time because of the pain
Life sucks I wish I could stop the Rain
Life sucks I want to get hit by a big truck
Life sucks I wish I had some bucks
Life sucks just because it can
Life sucks when you got to be a man
Life suck that’s all
So go on living your life and have a ball

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Hmm, a sort of balanced tabloid article for a change...

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Okay, so considering the publication, it could have been far worse. These two are friends and I shall inquire as to how on earth they managed to get the Sun to agree to not do their usual tricks with this. All kudos to them, they have more courage than I am sure most folks have.

Anyhow, the article here: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/woman/real_life/2591124...

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Author Pages -- Not for content

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Author Pages, marked so under the Publication menu, are for organizational pages, only, not for content like stories, blogs, poems or character or story notes. Please, if you have marked ANY of your stories as Author Pages, go back and change them to Fiction or whatever is appropriate. Thanks.

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Erin

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Standing Up to Life Book 3: Update on Progress

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Standing Up to Life Book 3:


Hi Everyone,

Over the course of the last few months I've had a lot of readers contact me and ask when I would be posting my third book. I've had to tell them at every turn that I think it's going to be late summer this year. Unfortunately late summer kept becoming later and later as I've had a particularly rough and stressful last year. It got to the point that I could barely write much of the time, so I kept running into setbacks and major writers block.

During the summer, and particularly the last twenty days or so I have finally managed to get the motivation, the muse, and the time to work on the book. As such I would like to let every know I just finished the rough draft about forty minutes ago!

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looking for a story again

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i am looking for a story where a young man goes to his cousins house for the summer and gets a job as a weather girl and in the end stays a girl and gets a job as a reporter oh and teh cousins own /work a catering company been lookngfor this one for a while but cant seem to find it again
and thank you with hugs for any help

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Sex swap police scandal

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The Daily Express triumphs again! This was the headline article on Saturday 15th August 2009. It's about the formation of a support group by transgendered police officers/civilian workers, which might get some funding to set it up. This is cutting edge investigative journalism at its...never mind, bloody tabloid comic.

I hope the link below works.

http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/120671

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Shopping Advice

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Hi everyone. It looks like I might be spending a week down in Alabama at the begining of September. I will be in Russellvile. It's about an hour from Huntsville and about 15 minites from musell shoals. I'm wondering if anyone knows of any transformation salons or good shopping for a girl in boy mode. I have the day free when my nephew is at school. I'm definatly looking to expand my wardrobe.

Thanks

Jessica Marie

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Follow up to How different?

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I've received several requests/hints to do a follow up to How different from us. Is there much enthusiasm for it? I am emphasising now that would be it - I'm not creating any more serials until some of the older ones are finished. However, if there's enough interest I might do a follow up as the relationship between Mollie and her dad might be worth exploring. What do you think, readers?

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Have you read I Need A Hero yet?

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If you haven't, may I humbly suggest you go and do so? Grover has improved with each posting, and this story is no exception to that rule. I truly believe that this Grover's best effort yet, and being a friend of hers, I want everyone to see and appreciate this wonderfully funny story. If you have a funny bone, this tale will give it a good workout. I've never done anything like this before, and I hope Grover will forgive me for gushing about her story, but it's just that darned good. See for yourself.

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My Health

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I would once again like to thank everyone who has been so supportive of me during my recent health problems. My tremors have reduced significantly with the proper dosage of medication, and my doctor assures me things will be pretty much okay, even under the worst case scenarios, baring any new things they might discover with the EEG I'll be having on the 22nd of this month.

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I found her

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Hi everyone. Earlier today I posted a blog looking for help to find a authors stories. Andrea DiMaggio was nice enough to show me to the write webite for archived sites. I did not have any luck at first. I no longer had the write url for the lost website. Finaly, I poured through my histories on my computer and found the URl. I had tried it one last time before I deleted it from my favorites.

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Allison D'murell????

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Hi everyone. One of my favorite sites for TG reading has always been Allison D'murrells website over on Yahoo. I love her stories. Unfortunatly it's gone now. I have never seen any of her stories anywhere else. I wish I had saved the stories when I had the chance. The site had a wonderfull but sad story about a young man named Judas(lamb to his friends), It had a wonder story about the brother to the famous SRU wisard. I shall miss these stories. As far as I am concerned Allison ranks up there with the fines TG authors on the internet.

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Your continued encouragement

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I spent a lovely afternoon with my beautiful bride at the Neurology Center of Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan. No time for sightseeing but I have a followup video EEG in two weeks. My original medication, which I am no longer taking, apparently acted as a precipitant to the tremors, and the new medication highly regarded for seizures that are anxiety/stress/and panic related or caused. No diagnosis other than a Seizure Disorder N.O.S. Thanks for all your prayers. If I had another son, and he was somehow was Asian, I would love for him to be just like my doc.

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Which is your favorite BCTS Summer Romance 2009 story?

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A Man Among Vikings by Jesse Rabbit
16% (18 votes)
Ashley's Magical Summer by AshleyTS
16% (18 votes)
Cursed to an Eternity Without Love by Zoulless
2% (2 votes)
Dear John by Melanie Ezell (Rasufelle)
10% (12 votes)
Frends Forever by Bronwen Welsh
8% (9 votes)
If You’ve Got the Money, Honey, I’ve Got the Thyme by Angela Rasch
5% (6 votes)
In Other Habits by Tara G.
4% (5 votes)
It's You I Like by Andrea DiMaggio
1% (1 vote)
Life Imitates Art? by BrandiS
3% (3 votes)
My Summer Mutation by Saless
10% (11 votes)
Not What You Expected by Joannebarbarella
7% (8 votes)
Providence Parts by Andrea DiMaggio
3% (3 votes)
Seasons of Change by Megumi-chan
1% (1 vote)
Sisters by Alexandra Mountferris
4% (5 votes)
Terri's Vengeance by Stanman63
3% (4 votes)
The Waitress by Maid Joy
6% (7 votes)
What We Did For Love by Jengrl
2% (2 votes)
Total votes: 115

Weblinks Repaired

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The module that handles the links administration for BC went nuts after the last core update. It hasn't been updated itself since January and there have been FIVE core updates since then. Late tonight I will be trying to change this over to a new module that was updated in July, actually changing back to the module I used a bit over a year ago, but that's not important.

Anyway, expect the site to be in maintenance mode sometime tonight and maybe into the wee morning. I should have things fixed or irreparably broken by 3 a.m. PDT.

Hugs,
Erin

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Where have I been?

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Edeyn I hope it's not flattering myself to say that some of you have been wondering where I've gotten off to.

About six weeks ago, something happened, that although I didn't know what was going on, I was responsible for. It caused a LOT of people massive amounts of pain. Just because I didn't realize it was happening, doesn't make it any less my fault.

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Urgent Movie help her?

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I am looking for the Title to a recent movie where a CIA agent goes to Syria or Jordan to find a Terrorist. He gets captured by the same but gets rescued by the Jordanian version of the CIA. In the mean time he falls in love with a Muslim girl and stays on to marry her.

I thought it was Matt Daymon, Brad Pitt or Mark Walberg but so far can't find nuttin'

Can anyone help"

Khadija

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How different

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I posted this story 'How different from us' last year, around April time. It appears to have disappeared, so I shall repost it tomorrow if I have time. Those who haven't read it will have a chance to do so, and those who have previously read it, will have an opportunity to relive the experience. How's that for value? I think it's quite good, but then I would, wouldn't I?

Angharad.

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A husband, for ME?

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I was talking on SKYPE this morning with a long time friend in Sauudia. We usually talk about situations there, his favorite books, and movies too. Yes, there are no movie theatres there, but they haf their vays. :)

He'd gotten heat stroke today and needed a pat on the head. I was suitably motherly to him and then out of the blue, he said,"would you like to meet my Uncle"?

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Interesting Essay

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Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips examines the culture of excess which seems such a part of modern life. He looks at this in regard to all areas of life, including consumerism, sex, and religion. It's well worth the read and it may give insight into how you feel about yourself.

The essay is in today's Guardian Review. Link below.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/aug/08/excess-adam-phil...

Angharad.

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Various things

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First, I'd once again like to thank everyone for their prayers and support. My appointment is on Monday in Manhattan, and hopefully the neuro specialist can help me get to the bottom of the tremors I'm experiencing. Things are fairly good with the medication I'm already taking, and perhaps that's all that can be done, but that's okay; it's all in God's and my doctor's hands.

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