It seemed like a good idea at the time; pushing my value systems that is, when I was a wee-freshman in college. I didn't do it by getting super wasted or stoned out of my mind or sleeping around. I did it by trying to see what I could make out of a 29 year old guy who I met, befriended, and a year and eight months later still find myself in the ( Read more... )

Let me ask a simple question ( Read more... )

The smell of burning wood reached us inside the spa in downtown Asheville before any of us realized that its´origin was from smoke drifting into the valley from Tennessee "contolled fires." A haze of gray fog drastically altered the visibility even on street level. I noticed the lighting change before the scent had penetrated through our array of ( Read more... )

Honesty oh sweet sweet honesty how I have missed you so! My relationship of the past year and 8 months has consisted of much drama, denial, and keeping my thoughts to myself due to the normal freak-out response my boyfriend has been prone to whenever I try to talk about "us." But tonight, the many truths and thoughts I been swallowing for almost 2 ( Read more... )

I often come to the point where I wish I could stop understanding life ( Read more... )

I can feel my gums rotting away beneath my lips ( Read more... )

I finally moved into an apartment after months of futile searching. Thank God! So, yesterday, I went home after work to move some more stuff out of my old room and into my new apartment near UNCA. My mother had the nerve to ask me when I would be all moved out by and also inquired as to whether I could babysit Emily the next night. I replied that I ( Read more... )

There is a new building on the UNCA campus. I saw it for the first time today when I went with Randal to see his office in all of its pristine-still-smells-like-paint-glory. I feel like I will never ever truly know what it's like to be a college student. I don't think I will ever experience the freedom, the drunkenness, the time available to focus ( Read more... )

I went to an underwear as outerwear party last night. Oh yeah-good times. On another note, today I received a call from my Father to tell me that he is flying down to Colombia tonight because my Grandfather (abuelito) is dying. I am feeling regretful that I have not seen my grandfather in 5 years and now there is no chance that we will ever be able ( Read more... )