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What Do I Want to Do When I Grow Up?
I am getting a case of job wanderlust. It's still early, so I don't know if this is a temporary or a permanent feeling. I really enjoy my co-workers. I am about to get an amazingly awesome new student assistant. But I just...I don't know. I look at what I'm doing and I feel that maybe I want something vastly different. Something more creative ( Read more... ) -
Poem Free-Write, Take it or leave it.
Want to kiss you.
Want to be absorbed by your skin
Only to be reassembled within your flesh.
Want to be imprisoned in your bones
So I can gnaw my way to the surface,
Mining you for memories.
Want you to ache if the memories are not there.
Want to feel the pain wrenching your muscle
As you slowly recall what inside me was like. -
Some of us are happy in a different kind of family.
Hello, world.
I am happy to report that I'm in a pretty good place right now.
You know those friends who become family in one way or another? Yeah, I've got more of those now, and it's awesome. -
Ooooohhhh
Old habits die hard when you got, when you got a sentimental heart. -
(Untitled)
Open palm held out,
Cold, neglected. It's your fault
Awkwardness exists. -
New-ish Poem.
Some of you might recognize this from a Facebook note I put up the other day. Edits and suggestions welcome. Still untitled ( Read more... ) -
Dios Mil, man.
Looks like Philadelphia has rolled its way into the semis.
WOOOOOOOO!!!! -
My God. It's Full of Angst.
Having one of those days where I want to purge everything. Just throw it all away, overturn the desk at work and run for home, and then when I get home, open a window and toss everything into the street ( Read more... ) -
Adventures in Real Quotations!
Me: (speaking of a 3rd party) And then I say something stupid because I talk without thinking, and I think I made him mad so I apologize to him because I don't want to sound like a toolbag, you know it just comes out that way sometimes. But then he says I don't need to apologize ( Read more... ) -
Spray Bottle? Squirt Gun?
A few months shy of a decade post-PGSA, there are still days when I need an encouraging cold shot from the water-powered weapons genius who is Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz.
I am embarassed with myself for talking in circles and digging myself into holes at the same time, saying things that I probably shouldn't say. Or even worse, holding back on things ( Read more... )