*sigh*

Haven't heard from Patty. Don't know when I will hear from Patty. She mailed a letter last Saturday, so that should come sometime in the week, but right now I have no idea when she'll be able to get online again or send another letter and since I can't send letters to her, she can't hear from me unless she can get on, and it's ridculously frustrating to me not to be able to tell her how awesome I think she is.

This is the dig where we thought we would have the easiest and most frequent ability to communicate and so far it has turned out exactly the opposite.

buraku

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/16/world/asia/16outcasts.html

sundries

Off to Trader Joe's (I'm at my office), before heading home to clean house, do some web work, write more IHNIIHBT (which has reached new levels of emotionally gutting, but it's exactly the story I'd wanted it to be since it became this _thing_) and wallow in a whole bunch of Vienna Teng songs.

If I'm particularly industrious, there may be some solofic, but I need to find the right topic to go with the current state of my internal tone (which is very much a la the Annie fics).