Here comes quite the busy spring schedule, if all goes according to my oft-convoluted plan ( Read more... )

And now she's gone ( Read more... )

I had a dream Friday night and the next morning I thought nothing of it until I was bent over in the subcellar of Leo's basement, and cramped under a dim bulb I recalled the dream. It inspired in me something of a story idea, but that is not unusual. Almost daily I'll find myself wandering through the dusty halls of my mind and, properly primed, ( Read more... )

(Oh, and for the record, my brief sabattical from the so-called novel. My New Year's Resolution is to finish the first draft before year's end. I'm at 73,291 words, or a hundred and five single-spaced pages. I'm pretty close to being half-way done with the story. You know...just in case you cared.)

I've been doing some thinking lately and I think I know what I want to do with my life. Or, at least, what a major step I'm going to take. Now, I don't know if I'm going to even wait until I'm done with college to pursue this, but it seems likely. In the end, it really comes down to which school I choose--should the University of Michigan accept me ( Read more... )

If emotions were flammable, and somebody slit open my heart and dropped in a lit match...

...it'd be something out of a Jerry Bruckheimer film. No joke.

Guess who just got accepted to Kalamazoo College?

Yeah...some douchebag in Iowa...but so did I.

So I tried to kill myself today ( Read more... )

Oh my God! There's a bullet in my brain!

So, I turned in my application to Orchard today. I trust Jon can pull enough strings to get me a job (Lord knows the fucking library wouldn't. God, ban the library. What a waste of time. Go buy books, it's much more satisfying owning a fresh edition rather than a crumbling tome of stained pages that you have approximately three days to read before ( Read more... )