so i decide i need a smoke -start some snare tapping, a little.  light.

but i don’t have a lighter, i tricked myself before i walked to work this morning.

i said to myself no lighter or cigarettes no smoking ‘til you get back home,

but

i forgot that my pack was in my leather jacket, so i didn’t forget my cigs at all, but remembered them in my ( Read more... )

i’ve been down this road before, or rather i’ve stood at a crossroads much like the very one that faces me now.  i’m no longer happy in school.  i’m no longer willing to drive through all this mud.

on some levels academia is deeply and intensely satisfying.  but for one, the idea that i’ll ever become a professor of anything officially sanctioned ( Read more... )

[your clues are over-calculated at best, mr. norman. that being said, here are some revelations of late ( Read more... )

state whether you agree with the outcome of the presidential election with a PRO or a CON (in other words, “Bush. Yay or nay?” but please don’t use those words but the ones i’ve stated).
please then state your reasoning in one word, no more no less-that’s right, merely, lonely, uno. . .

this is mine, this is the formula, follow me:

CON ( Read more... )

In 1999, Half.com’s marketing team made a visit to the town of Halyway, Oregon to ask the mayor to change the name to Half.com. Although reluctant at first, the mayor took the request up with city council for further discussion. Half.com offered financial support to the community if they agreed to change the name. On January 19, 2000, Half.com ( Read more... )

( here. this is a very very very personal poem, )

stolen from princessmeow_’s journal.


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“Why is it that the mind of man is trying so very hard just at present to see into the future? Is it that we fear that we don’t have one ( Read more... )

i am reading, reading into my own function, the milieu of my perspective within this creative clutter of mind and matter. more and more as the days shorten and go, as the puzzlements beckon an end to blindness. to spirit away the sphinx. where i unfold the blinds, where we may find ourselves neither in nor out of the forest, but within its very ( Read more... )