"Foundations" -- Introduction

When I was playing with the "Gender Genie" the other night, I decided to give it one my favorite pieces I'd ever written.  Took me awhile to dig it up from the bowels of my hard drive.  But once I found it, I thought, "Duh.  Why not post it on the journal?"  Well, for one reason, it's rather long.  I'll have to break it up over four entries -- so, y'know, start here and read in order.

I think it requires little explanation.  The only thing I'd add is that I wrote it a number of years ago, at around 2:00 in the morning, in an email.  This was before the days of journals (or, at least, before the time I'd heard of them).  But I had all these thoughts jangling around in my head, and I just couldn't sleep until I'd written them.  Sometimes you just have to write, and this was one of those times.  Had I had a journal then, it would have been an entry -- so I'm sort of going back and resurrecting the piece.

And, um -- it's a little meatier than what I usually write.  It happens.  I'll be back tomorrow with the new game my cat taught me.