My whole life I've been making big projects for myself. In high school I dug through stacks of specialty atlases after reading Heinlein's "Friday" because making a prediction of the origin of the next Black Death mega-plague sounded like fun. I spent seven years--before, during and after college--haunting the college library to write a manuscript ( Read more... )

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Forced myself to get up and eat breakfast before noon. Making oatmeal for just myself wasn't a traumatic experience like before. I feel only garden variety shitty ( Read more... )

I wake up each day and feel like a cigarette butt that was burnt down to the filter and extinguished by being vigorously crushed into the remains of its own ashes ( Read more... )

Can't even watch a Pixar movie without a sobbing attack ( Read more... )

I've been pretty worthless since the car accident 2 weeks ago. I haven't left the Petersen's place more than 3 times since then. Hell, I've hardly left the bedroom half a dozen times since then ( Read more... )

I've decided to give up on the apartment that Ginger and I shared for our last year together. I'm an emotional and physical wreck. I will not be able to cobble together some sort of life on my own out of the broken shards of the old life. Not anytime soon and certainly not before rent is due on the first of the month ( Read more... )

Most of these videos in this series are pretty lame, but this Terminator parody is pure genius!

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Viewing art when you are an emotional wreck is a very rich experience, but not one I'm entirely sure that I'd recommend. I was probably seeing at least some interpretations that the artists never intended. It's like all my emotional filters have been burned out and the art is being applied directly to my nervous system. It's exciting and vivid but ( Read more... )

Got hit with another dizzy spell about a hour before the free wine tasting I was going to attend yesterday. I bought the wine I wanted, but decided that drinking any of of the free would be a bad idea ( Read more... )