I experienced anxiety and hesitation before writing out this first sentence. Those are some of the things I will have to deal with in this project ( Read more... )

On the flight over to Japan I had the most entertaining and realistic dream I can recall. In my dream, I woke up from my hazy nap to find myself in the same seat, sitting next to the same people, looking at the same screen in the center of the fuselage on which, at that very moment in waking reality, the in-flight movie of Big Mama's House was ( Read more... )

Hello. I am in Japan.

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As a person who flies in and out of New York several times a year, and like most adults who've boarded an airplane, I guess I've inured myself to the terror and awe one might expect a land mammal to experience when being propelled through the atmosphere. Though I am always sure to book a window seat, it's because the view helps stave off the ( Read more... )

It was huge. It was moving across the top of the wall opposite me, a mobile, brown stain on all that is domestic and familiar. I don't remember when my revulsion toward large, winged insects was programmed into me; it was probably wired somewhere between ancestral DNA and the poolside wasp attack when I was five. While I regard the prejudicial ( Read more... )

Wow, it's been so long since I just dicked around on livejournal for three hours. My attempt at sleep officially ended an hour and a half after it began. It's just going to be one of those nights. Thanks for writing stuff.

Hey Florida, I hear trees are down. I can't get through to anyone's cellular phone, so I assume some towers are, too. Is everyone alright and dry? None of the accounts I've heard so far sound particularly horrific. My sister reports that our grill in now toppled over in the grass by the lake, which I am prepared to accept. I heard that power may ( Read more... )

Oh, my shoulder.

Everybody plays the fool.

No exception.

Last night me and Julee and two newfound friends drove down to an uninhabited strip of Ft. Lauderdale beach and got drunk on cheap vodka and pure, grovestand-style Florida orange juice. About twenty minutes before the brilliant sunrise, Brandon, who leaves for the Airforce in a week, used his Arab-tracking night vision eagle eyes to spot a couple ( Read more... )