Category Archives: Journal

Day to day whatever.

Being my own grown-up (and the life cycle of fireweed)

Posted on Tue, 4 August 2009 by Mel Green

Back in the olden days, when I was a junior in college, I took part in an experimental theatre production of Jules Feiffer’s Feiffer’s People, directed by my friend Alana Erickson.  It was a lot of fun.  I can’t remember … Continue reading →

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Repetitive stress injuries

Posted on Tue, 30 June 2009 by Mel Green

My Aussie friend Sian told me a few years back that the difference between the Aussie (& British, no doubt Commonwealth) usage whinge & the word more commonly used by Americans, whine, is that to whine is simply to complain, … Continue reading →

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Happy wedding! (for John & Heather)

Posted on Sat, 27 June 2009 by Mel Green

Wishing my newfound blogger friends John Aronno & Heather James (of Alaska Commons & SOSAnchorage.net, respectively) a happy wedding.

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Deaths

Posted on Thu, 25 June 2009 by Mel Green

Today’s a day that’s had a lot of deaths in it.  The first was the death of someone I hadn’t known of before, a woman named Jerri Nielsen, an ER doctor from Ohio who was working in Antarctica and had … Continue reading →

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Transposition

Posted on Tue, 23 June 2009 by Mel Green

Sometimes sleep, food, & friends need to come first.

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Found & lost

Posted on Sun, 24 May 2009 by Mel Green

I don’t know if I will ever again live with or love somebody, other than the somebodys that have always been my cats.  And you know, even though any person you love & live with has their weirdnesses, as I … Continue reading →

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Divorce, financially interdependent partner style

Posted on Fri, 15 May 2009 by Mel Green

Today is the final day of the University of Alaska system’s annual Open Enrollment period, when we have the opportunity to make changes to the various options in our benefits package. And so it came to formalize what Rozz, now … Continue reading →

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Recombubulating

Posted on Mon, 4 May 2009 by Mel Green

Yep dammit, I’ve been quiet for a couple of weeks since the actual WAR vote, even as a lot of stuff has been happening.  The biggest reason is that I was out of state for a week & a half, … Continue reading →

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Didn't notice when I took it….

Posted on Tue, 23 October 2007 by Mel Green

Me, today First day of snow in Anchorage this year, though doesn’t look like it’ll last. Enough that I had to brush the snow off my car this morning, & take it real slow & easy driving to work. At … Continue reading →

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Potato attack

Posted on Wed, 27 June 2007 by Mel Green

Now, here’s the kind of item that blogs are made of… …at least sometimes. A nice way to come back to posting here now & then. This comes by way of the Alaska Newsreader blog at the Anchorage Daily News, … Continue reading →

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