of some small note:

i have posted as many comments as i have received as of the time i am posting this entry.

one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine.

i have a lot of anxiety about the coming month, mostly due to finances ( Read more... )

last night steve & i took a road trip up to clarion to see OUR LADY PEACE. even though i'm still sad & bitter that mike turner is no longer with the band-- which, in my mind & to my ear, makes them less great-- they still put on one hell of a show ( Read more... )

yes, it certainly has been awhile. i'm not sure why that is, but i just haven't been feeling the need or desire to make a real update or post anything at all. i think it's just that, for a while, everything was coming at me all at once. things seem to have slowed down a bit, but i'm not putting any money down on a permanent place in lullsville ( Read more... )

Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio -- David Citino, the poet laureate at Ohio State University and an English professor there for more than three decades, died Monday. He was 58 ( Read more... )

it should make me sad, i think, to come to the realisation that there are only two, maybe three people from clarion that i really want to keep in contact with. & even two out of those potential four are people i know i will not pursue friendships with much longer after i move to savannah. yet i am completely reconciled with this fact. it's like ( Read more... )

today i finished the most intensely wonderful & heart-breaking / warming novel i have ever read. extremely loud & incredibly close by jonathan safran foer-- the author also wrote everything is illuminated, the film of which comes out tomorrow, starring elijah wood ( Read more... )

what kelly said to me:
all i can say is wow...jaded much?

& then laterget over it meg...i mean really...how very silly of you. its time to grow up. try it..you may like it. and stop playing that whole role of "poor me...im just such an outcast in my own quirky way..." its tired of you. and so am i. you will get your book...funny how that is the ( Read more... )

what i said:look, i know you don't want to be my friend anymore for whatever secret reason. i accept that finally after michelle & i tried relentlessly all summer to get in touch with you & you pretty much blew us off ( Read more... )

ryan: everyday, i feel that spot deep in between my organs where you stay all day long and make me close my eyes so I can pretend you are closer than you actually are ( Read more... )