Monitor Me

What should you know about me that would make reading this blog more coherent. That's a tough one. How about this: I'm flighty. I'll get all worked up about stuff and I'll write about it a lot for a few days or weeks, and then I'll have it out of my system and you won't read anything more about whatever it was that got me all worked up in the first place. If I tried to explain every aspect of my personality that shines through here, you'd probably need an Encyclopedia of Rilla instead of just an About Me page. So, that's the first thing, I guess: There are times when I have a very short attention span.

This summer (2009) I was married to a fellow whom I refer to as Kaz here on the bloggeroo. We've both been married and divorced once before, and that's not so bad either. I don't think I'm the type to carry around all my failed relationships in my back pocket and bring them out to examine all the time, but if you want to know about me, then you should probably know that lots of my previous marriage to Rob is chronicled in this blog too. There's all sorts of depressing, sad, posts about how we split up, but then there's all sorts of lovely, hopeful posts as I fell in love all over again. There's nothing I love more than love.

I'm a little fucked in the head. That's another thing you should probably know about me. I've had problems with depression, and then anxiety, and even when I'm feeling perfectly sane, I'm not exactly perfectly sane, if you know what I mean. Luckily, I seem to react well to treatments, both medicinal and conversational. At the best of times, I try to channel my oddness into my various creative outlets. I take photos, I write poems, fiction, and I do a lot of blogging, particularly when I'm feeling good about my life. All those long periods of non-postings that you may find in my archives, are usually during a not-so-good time.

What do I do for a living? That's a very good question. I've worked a lot of crappy jobs over the last few years, but I've also had a few jobs that I really loved. In University I was a Tutorial Leader for first-year English students and that was pretty much awesome. I also got a contract to write and edit a novel with a few other people and that was also pretty much awesome. I am currently trying to make a go of it as an independent contractor, providing editing work. It's a very early stage to tell you how it's going, but I'm hopeful. I'm looking forward to working from home again.

I write about my friends a lot. My cats show up in all sorts of pictures. I have a smattering of hobbies that rear their ugly heads every so often. My family lives a province away, but I write about them too. In other words, this blog lacks any sort of thematic focus. You can't categorize it under "literature" or "photography" or "humour," although you'll find a lot of those things here. It's just about me and the things that I like, and the people whom I love.

Here's my old About Me page, for another snapshot of my life.
Here's a collection of what I consider to be my best posts.

I'm leaving comments open for this version. If you've got questions "about me," ask them and I'll answer.