#jim's journal

[headdaze]

being witness to the wind breaker ao3 page slowly grow from barely 13 pages to almost 30 now brings me a certain kind of happiness 🥹

[greywizard-reporter-jim]

Jim's Journal

Ready at last! It took a few days of non stop study and preparation, but I'm ready! I gathered the ingredients and drew the circles, and thanks to Ratazom's advice, everything's perfect! Now, it's just a matter of the right words and the right gesture, at the right time.

I'm... Kind of nervous. Even in Tax Magic, I never did something on such a scale. I have the help of ancient and powerful artifacts from the Council's coffers, but even then, Lichdom is no easy feat. Then again... I'm kind of proud of myself, on this one. It's the same feeling I had when I summoned my first skeletons. This achievement is leagues above a basic necromancy spell, but... I don't know. It feels the same. And it feels great! Maybe the way I see magic simply got healthier. I'm proud of my accomplishments.

...eh. I wonder what Serioth would say, if he was here. Who's incompetent now?

I'm also really fucking tired. Gonna take a nap and wake up disorientated in like 37 hours.

[lone-sk]

Today I decided to revisit Jim's Journal, and I was immediately hit with this absolute banger

[potentiallyjim]

I'm really struggling right now, and since posting here is like shouting into the void, I figure the void can take all my worries.

I recently got moved to a new team at work. Without warning. It's not fun to be reminded I'm little more than a replacable cog, but whatever. The projects I'd been working on moved with me. Also fine. But more work has been added to my plate. A lot of work my previous boss and two others had been doing part-time got added to my load.

It's not that I can't do this work. It's all data science like I'm used to, but I'm now the "owner" on all this. The main point of contact, which has always been my former boss' role.

Logically, they wouldn't toss me in without a net and I know I can rely on the folks who formerly worked on this stuff to help look over my work if needed, but I still feel like I'm being tossed in the deep end.

I'm a people-pleaser. Another team is wanting more of this data science work and after working through the details, I gave them a rough timeline of 2 months. This wasn't even a generous timeline for the amount of work they were asking for. They shot back that they were expecting on the order of 2 weeks. Again, logocal me knows that's a wildly unreasonable request, but the inner people-pleaser tells me "well, if I just push myself more..."

On the bright side, talking with the folks who were doing this work previously, they balked at the two-week expectation. And my new boss is telling me not to make *any* commitments or expectations since I'm still in the "learning" phase of this project.

I woke up this morning at 5am and had a minor panic attack thinking about work. I can't live like this.

I guess being in demand means I can pick and choose what I get to work on. I get to determine what I get to work on. ... Yeah. I'm in demand amd my time is a limited supply. I get to control this economy! This is oddly empowering!

[remembertheplunge]

My name is Lew Wentz.

I am a 69 year old gay criminal defense lawyer. I have been keeping journals for 47 years as of September 14, 2024.. I am writing a book based on the journals.

I came out as a gay man in 1984. I was married to a woman then. I left the marriage after telling her I was gay.

My younger sister, Zoe, who I was very close to, died rather suddenly of pancreatic cancer in May of 2023. She gave me permission to blog the last two weeks of her life. Those blogs run from May 1 to May 14, 2023.

I journaled my journey through the turbulent 1980's and 1990's. During that time, I was pretty vocal about being gay. I volunteered to help people with aids through their illness and death. And, I believe because of this, I was fired from my job as a deputy Public Defender in Modesto California. I also documented the 12 year relationship I had with my partner, Jim, who died in 2009.

I wrote pretty much daily about these events and many others. I never intended for the entries to be made public. But, I now think they should be, as they weave what I believe to be our common story of what it's been like to be out, human and gay in the past four decades.

And, as I journaled, I developed ideas and ways to journal and wrote about them in the journals. I discuss the impact journaling has had on me. And, the amazing revelation reviewing journal entries for the blog and book of just how incredible our lives have been. Memory fades. The journal details do not.

My hope is that , after reading the blogs, and maybe some day the book, you too will become addicted to journaling. Your life on paper will amaze you down the line.

My blog became one and one half years old on August 5, 2024.

[themarvelproject]

Marvel house ad for the African Saga team-up between The Punisher and Wolverine in The Punisher War Journal featuring art by Jim Lee (1989)

[muppet-facts]

Muppet Fact #864

In the 1980 presidential election, people cast write-in votes for both Miss Piggy and Kermit.

Source:

"Cizanckas Fund ... The Write-in Votes." Matthew L. Wald. Connecticut Journal. December 7, 1980. Section C, page 3.

[s0larize]

[jillianwygand]

some journaling I have done lately to keep the creativity flowing

[multifandomrandomgirl]

On this day in 1969 and 1971 we lost Brian Jones and Jim Morrison respectively. Rest in peace angels.

Junk journal pieces I did today for them

[bclaymoore]

Jim Aparo ADVENTURE COMICS covers featuring the Spectre.

For a brief time in the mid-70s, Aparo worked with writer Michael Fleisher on a series of ultra-violent Spectre stories that sparked some controversy, and ultimately helped lead to a multi-millionaire lawsuit by Fleisher against author Harlan Ellison and Gary Groth's THE COMICS JOURNAL.

[headdaze]

WHY ARE SHIELDS UP ON AO3

[aquarda]

“Tell them you came and saw and looked into my eyes and watched the shadows of the guard receding.”

[bee-barnes-author]

Got my first agent rejection today. Really trying to not let it ruin my confidence in this book.

[tulpar-transmissions]

🧣WE'RE TALKING TO SOMEONE

🧣AND NIGHTMARE SAID THIS:

🧣AND I'M LOSIGNG MY SJITH THWAT THE FUCK IS THAT BAJAHAHAHAH

[remembertheplunge]

Sketches I did in my 2000 journal of the 4th of July, my partner Jim sitting in our back yard and a shovel against the wall in our back yard.