What's wrong with our society? Why is good never good enough? Why do we have to judge everything by what we've not accomplished, what we don't have? Why can't we be happy with things the way that they are? I'm not talking everything, I'm talking ANYTHING ( Read more... )

Everyone's so goddamned chipper at work this morning like nothing happened. The "worldly" guy in the cubicle next to mine said, "Yeah, I woke up to that too...didn't have anyone over there, though."

It's not awful if we're not involved. And this is a damned international relief agency. What the holy hell.

Well, we've learned an important lesson this morning ( Read more... )

Anyone want to come help me find a new place and help me pack my house into boxes?

Someone wrote something very hateful in my journal, anonymously. I don't understand why, it's been a while since I've been blindly hated. It seems like someone must either be quite angry with me right now, pretending to be friends with me but really find me distasteful, or hate me but still read my journal ( Read more... )

So two things have been happening recently ( Read more... )

I get let down, after shows I'm in pass or after the end of a particularly hard semester. Whenever there's something stressful, after the stress is gone I just feel like a dungheap for a couple of days. Standing just one velvet rope away from celebrities and trying to remember my name, let alone questions to ask these people, was the most anxiety ( Read more... )

So we all know I'm a film critic largely so I can get into movies for free, as I have no money. I mean, I do reviews here and there for the radio and for cmuTV, but it's hardly my intended profession.

Well, as some of you know, there's a red carpet opening/screening for Land of the Dead on Wednesday in Pittsburgh instead of LA, as George A. ( Read more... )

A woman in love is a flower:
It is not enough for her to know the sun exists.
Without feeling heat, her love cannot grow.
When kept in the dark, she dies.

I figured out why I was so unbelievably horrible this morning: I'm purging ( Read more... )