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Fear is the heart of love.
The sounds of cheers, laughter, anger, and drunken ramblings could almost drown out the sound of insipid music that filled the smoke saturated air. Even with the smoke permeated air, the smells of perfume, cologne, and the lack thereof managed to invade the nostrils. Dazzling and flashing lights mingled with the sounds of digitized reels falling ( Read more... ) -
"I don't skate to where the puck is. I skate to where the puck is going to be."
There are times in life that I wish I could predict what life is gong to throw at me. Being able to set up a solid defense would be great, but life isn't quite like that. Life isn't some Wayne Gretzky quote about reading hockey plays. While there are certain things in life that we know are going to happen, life, on a whole, is spontaneous and ( Read more... ) -
Brushback Pitch
The director walked into the meeting room in which the expectant writing staff was waiting. He dropped a couple of blue binders filled with photocopies of the television script upon the table, causing a loud thud to echo throughout the room. Slowly, each writer took a photocopy of the script from the binders as the director wound up his pitch ( Read more... ) -
I need the struggle to feel alive.
"You'll be thankful when you're older ( Read more... ) -
Joining
I haven't posted to Livejournal in years, and I got an e-mail saying that the 10th season of LJ Idol was up again. I was confused. I thought it was spam. I decided to check it out. It wasn't spam! There really is a 10th season! I'm declaring I'm signing up. -
Second Chance Idol High Wire Act
Her feet lightly kiss the ground as she haltingly approaches the ledge. The task before her is daunting, for the ledge is as thin as a thread and it towers above the ground. Despite the perilous journey before her, she faces it fearlessly. She seems to project a lazy confidence as if this was nothing compared to things she has faced before ( Read more... ) -
Second Chance Idol What's Missing.
Obstacles in my life have been relatively few, thankfully. I have managed to overcome most of what has been thrown my way. Though, there is one obstacle in which I have never fully conquered; fear. Fear seems to be a constant obstacle in my life. It is the one thing that is holding me back from the things that I want. What is fear holding me back ( Read more... ) -
Second Chance LJ Idol
This is probably a bad idea considering that I've been kind of busy lately, but I have to sign up for the Second Chance in LJ Idol. I've been waiting for this actually! -
Snow Apocalypse Home Game Entry for LJ Idol
Whispers of an extensive winter storm floated through the air. Though no one truly believed it would be anything quite as immense as the forecasters were saying. The accumulation totals were nothing more than a couple of inches. The prediction for Wednesday was close to seven to eight inches of white powder covering the Washington landscape ( Read more... ) -
Zombie Christmas. Free Topic for LJ Idol
During the spring, a new woman moved into the apartment diagonally downstairs from me. I didn’t pay much attention to her at first. She was just a new person for me to occasionally watch from my window when I was bored. Though, as the weeks moved forward, I started to notice some very peculiar things about this woman ( Read more... )