I must be the most pathetically romantic guy on the face of the planet. I keep having daydreams about waking up next to someone wonderful, and starting a lazy weekend with a cup of coffee, a good hike/swim/morning news show, and pleasant conversation with kisses in the interstices ( Read more... )

Have you noticed how lately commercials seem to be promising benefits out of the advertised products' capacities? Campbell's Select Soups, for instance. The woman eats a bowl of soup and suddenly she starts glowing. So basically, Campbell's is implicitly stating that their savory meals render me capable of generating my own bioluminescence ( Read more... )

It's so very important to feel worthy, accepted, and listened to. It's so vital to feel that you can fully be yourself without fear of criticism or negligence, and without hedging your true self or the expression thereof in order to please others ( Read more... )

Props to Evan for reminding me that college students adore free pizza, and will gladly whore out their bodily fluids for consumerist, factory-farm food porn ( Read more... )

When something that another person does TICKS YOU OFF, imagine a scenario where you do something very, very similar to that person. Then describe this scenario to said person. Should s/he stop you by getting caught up in the details, insist that his/her complaint about specificity is "not the point" and drive home the hypothetical situation. Stick ( Read more... )

Anthony was getting married - of course it's Anthony who's getting married, thought his brother Nathan. Anthony always gets the lion's share of the good fortune and I'm left with the scraps ( Read more... )

To acquire information
Is the greatest temptation,
Especially information
Which you're not supposed to know.

Surety is for those cowed by the threat of failure and the further uncertainty of a new beginning.

How many opportunities must one fritter away before he or she cringes in disgust and fury, and departs the safety of familiar ground?

So apparently in Jacksonville, the KFCs are planning to start offering grilled chicken. The stores are changing the iconic Colonel Sanders mascot, the buckets, the whole shabang ( Read more... )

Wow. Thoughts change dramatically from day to day - or so this nifty "restore draft" function for LiveJournal indicates. What was "So why is it that every person I know wants to be a teacher? I think I would be a pretty good-" a few days ago became an entirely different subject today. Today's topic of interest pertains to a subject already covered ( Read more... )

Everyone can act. Every time we tell a lie, we are acting ( Read more... )