LiveJournal was my winter project for 2004. I was in the midst of relocating to The Aerie, and the simple relief of having one snug home, rather than dividing my time between my pied-a-terre and Maplehurst, was just sinking in.
I was in the midst of a major career shift and was in the process of healing from a period of my life that I simply call 'the wasteland.'

My friends list has expanded and contracted several times in the intervening years.  writtenoutloud has been with me the longest.