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Yahoo and me

So when I was changing my password of something like 12 years (yes, it had to change), my e-mail account froze. This means I can see all of my groups, all of the contacts, all of the *other* things except my e-mail. Yes, I was so thrilled especially since I was waiting on a response to say a few jobs and also from an agent (with yay or nay).

But in a way, I think this is kind of like a “clean up” time in my life. I’m finding new priorities, finding my old mistakes and also looking square at myself and seeing if it is something I truly like to see. Where did I screw up? Where did I go wrong? Can I do better in the future?

So I ended up going through all of my old e-mail contacts (because I can see those, I just can’t e-mail them. Isn’t *that* lovely too?)

And I saw lists of people that I haven’t seen for ages. Whatever happened to Saadia Iqbal? What happened to Maren Boyle. I have no idea if they are married, in college still, if they moved on? And my old Mentor from the Canisius college program, Tom C. Joyce… I kind of looked at his name and had this writerly thought–hey if I get published, could I make him call me? There are thousands of people we touch the lives of and forget about. Whether it’s an old colleague a classmate, a friend, or someone who just went missing from the Internet.

Does Otakimi-chan still remember me before she was banned from the Internet by her mother? I still remember her…

Does Dave Fuhrman remember the poetry board I left him to inherit before Mr. Bailey, my old HS teacher, died? I remember him too.

These people being there in my address book make me remember and reflect on myself, and perhaps they have pieces of me that I can’t even remember. It kind of makes me sentimental and want to ace this thing called life even more. Because I think my passion for writing is kind of a dream of trying to share it with people, make them think, wonder . They may have forgotten about me, but perhaps I may exist to them again through that act. Maybe I’ll make them scream and say wow. I may make them proud.

It also makes me realize how hard I try to hang onto friends, even the ones I lost contact with. Kaori Asakawa of Japan… I miss her still, despite the years we haven’t spoken.

These people, I put them back into my new contact list with the full knowledge that the e-mail addresses are probably old or wrong, but I think I still desire to talk to them again. Maybe the feelings of the next book after the Magic Solutions, Inc. I’m trying to publish will reflect those feelings of lost connections. I think I’d like that.

New Gallery

I added a gallery since I tend to draw and do other things besides writing. I often also draw and do characters from the books I write. I like drawing clothes, jewelry, and designing various objects for my stories, so I thought I would post those with a few other images.