I wrote nothing about my month in Europe. Sorry.

I'll try to steal some time away to detail my adventures. I should, because they were awesome and ridiculous. But nothing's guaranteed.

Anyway, I'm alive and in the country and all that.

This was a waste of time.

To recap ( Read more... )

...the mind of a genius ( Read more... )

I'm not a very good basketball player. I mean, yes, I can absolutely dominate all of my 5 1/2-foot friends for big stretches of time and when I play consistently, I end up somewhat polished and effective against stiffer competition. But put me in an actual game where spacing and passing and decision-making and speed and athleticism count for more ( Read more... )

Sometimes, shit just changes. And it sucks. And you didn't even realize there was something to change until it up and disappears on you. I guess it takes a fire sometimes to make you see just how good and bad things were, because otherwise time changes things so imperceptibly that you just never notice that you're inexplicably standing on your ( Read more... )

Man, I really want to steal some of the prep-knives from work. There's a wall in the prep area with lengthy magnetic strips and massive savage knives stuck to them. They're gorgeous. Erica's post kinda got me thinking about how I need some knives... or more accurately, I need to get my good knives back from 408. God I'm lazy. And no, I'm not ( Read more... )

How Awesome My Life Just Got: I figured out how to stream international feeds of NBA, NFL and college games to my computer in almost real-time (60-80 second delay ( Read more... )

I've decided. It's time. Time to talk sense. Like sunrises and the Constitution ( Read more... )

Save for the giantism (and a few other traits and features), I'd make a terrific and convincing woman. More on that later ( Read more... )

I used to write because I wanted and needed to share my life, my ideas, my feelings. I used to write because I liked the feedback that my friends gave me and the rush of connectedness. Then things happened that changed all that. I started running with a new crowd - one that, almost to a man, read my work. Several incidents showed me glimpses of ( Read more... )