What can a girl do when a friend hands her a $100 beer budget? Stock up for the week, that's what ( Read more... )

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6:10 AM, Greyhound Station:
Graffitied busses lurk
The murky auburn sunrise,
Spying bleary touristas
Defying weary travel warnings
Which whisper through the morning
Of the slumbering border town-

Police chief shot twenty times
Mere hours after swearing in.
Five officers
Dead, this month alone.Highway drug wars, Zetas, Cartels ( Read more... )

After observing my mother virtually customize the Marie Callendar's menu for my grandmother's increasingly fragile diet, I've come to realize that dying from old age is not as easy as I had once thought. It involves an abubdance of embarassing personal problems, constraints, lonelyness, and utter dependance ( Read more... )

Just had a dream that as I was moving out of the dorms at the end of the school year, i ate a hot dog with my mother and a few other girls. As I was clearing the dishes, my mother started to pack a bowl ( Read more... )

UPDATE:
Goodnews: After months of frustration, I finally aquired a new cel phone. (with colors!)

Badnews: My old one doesn't turn on.

So that means you all need to send me your phone numbers, cause I've got nothin to go by.
A simple reply will ensure I can call and inform you of a totally awesome party I'm throwing, and vise versa.

Brine shrimp dart in pools
Sea monkeys in glacial jars
Atop moonlike peaks.

This Saturday Night
We sink in scrap-yard sofas
A mere year later.

Popov martinis
Write of higher summits climbed
In half drunk haikus.

Well, here I am again, frantically packing and cleaning at the last minute, despite the fact I had a final free week to take care of it. Regrets? Nope. The concluding chaos of my departure leaves no room for sentamentality ( Read more... )

After a month of aplications, hunting, and realators, it's finally happened...

WE GOT A HOUSE!!!
And a sweet one at that.

So it looks like Vic, Juan, Jerad and I will be moving in June 1st.

Can you tell I'm excited? cause I am :D

It finally hit me this morning that I'm going to NOLS in less than two months. I love my family for giving me this oportunity; I think my dad knows that this is more than just a jump start on my Recreation Administration career, but the kind of spiritual endeavor you get once a life time ( Read more... )