So, turns out the Stars tickets Kate and I have are for yesterday's show. We figured this out when we were looking up directions to get to the venue tomorrow night. This is obviously very distressing.

A lot of people told me that grad school wasn't a sprint but a marathon, which requires the appropriate mindset and pacing. When I figured out that I was only going to do a year I thought that i'd tricked the system into giving me a sprint instead. Now as I finish out another day of a hundred pages of homework, class, a study group, and scraping ( Read more... )

We finally finished the part of the lit class that required us to read Proust in novel form. Thankfully, I may now read while drinking coffee without looking like a tool/asshole ( Read more... )

So, Kate and I rode into the city today to see Across the Universe. I liked it, it's funny how something like that can make you nostalgic for a period of time you never lived in. Watching it, though, I couldn't help feel like once they got to New York there was this whole kind of New York youth life that I'm just not feeling here. I get that a lot ( Read more... )

First of all, mediocre Kung Fu movies are like bad porn. You know what you're there for, and the directors know what you're there for, but you still have to sit through all this poorly written plot just to get to the part where they pull their swords out and start going at it ( Read more... )

For those of you who I haven't told yet, I got published recently on an online literary magazine called Toasted Cheese. If you want to read it, the link's http://www.toasted-cheese.com/ezine.htm

mine's down the page a bit. Let me know what you think.

So, I got into the Hutchins Lit Mag. The upside is that i'm in. The downside is that they confused this years submission with last years. (I think they had it lying around in a folder. The end result is an old version of a story i've revised at least three times since then -and submitted ( Read more... )

Spring break is nice.
I've been reading a lot of Haruki Murakami short stories. They're really good.
Some times I wonder if reading about people who feel empty/off just reinforces some kind of cycle.
Regardless, I'm feeling pretty good right now.
work tomorrow. Boo.
San Diego after that. Yay.

"I have an idol in my life: a poster I have kept for many years. This is myself at 11 years of age; he's my greatest hero in life. At that time I was at my best, at that time I had an absolute belief in the imagination as a tool to handle reality. I thought it was possible to do everything. Today I know more, but the power I had at that time ( Read more... )

today was not such a good day. hard to say why without getting into messy, neurotic detail ( Read more... )