Since LiveJournal tends to be forgotten until the wee hours of the night when you're depressed, tired, and moody, I deliberately write this entry in the afternoon. Reading back over the last entries I've made, I realize that I'm in such a better place now. This year, I have accomplished much ( Read more... )

Hello, LiveJournal. Almost forgot about you. This has been a good year. I got fired from Akiko's, but found a better job working in IT doing things that I usually do for fun anyways. The staff is cool and the work is challenging and interesting. Though my professional self is growing for the first time, my creative self is still puttering. I've ( Read more... )

How I want to see us, together in the metropolis. To see the glow of neon and your face.

Maybe I really don't care about anything.

But I care about this.

I sit, surrounded by a few unpacked boxes (who stare at me, expectantly) in my new apartment. This move feels like the first time something positive has happened to me in a long time. I'm right smack in the middle of the Highlands, my favorite neighborhood in town. I've got a good roommate in Wade, a reliable friend. My room is just ridiculously ( Read more... )

I just had a dream where I was slacking off in a class and the teacher reprimanded me for missing so much class and for being a huge disappointment. I kept telling the teacher that I had my own plans for my life and academia wasn't one of them, but she kept telling me that I was full of shit and everybody had too much invested in me for me to be ( Read more... )

Feeling overwhelmed. Have so many things to do.

There are many things I could write about here right now, but I have had a vision and now it is the time to fulfill this vision.

I hope this works.

On the agenda for this year:
Learning to play the saxophone, and some serious study on the guitar.

I gave a ride to a homeless man who was just released from prison the other day. I had to stop and really think for a moment just how much good I'm really doing humanity on a day to day basis ( Read more... )

Pretty sure my father really was a better man than I could ever be.

God, I wish I could tell him that now.