the thought of losing my family is something i have been thinking about a lot. having amanda around last week was spectacularly wonderful. I was able to completely laugh-wholeheartedly. I was at peace with myself and life, and that was such a comforting feeling. my mind wasn't in 20 different pieces-trying to collect this fragmented work of chaos ( Read more... )

I was thinking of inserting an image. But retracted the thought just as soon as I clicked on the "insert image" button. Nothing seems to fit right now. No images are floating around that I would like to display on here. Maybe I could create some sort of Image...like this ( Read more... )

-already: actually, finally, officially enrolled/registered/paid for classes! booyah! Two classes starting August 20th. what's better than figuring out subjects you actually want to study, then doing it ( Read more... )

it started when he was 9. He's always wanted to have time alone. We would be riding our bikes and he would purposefully lag behind. Or he would be destroying the set up of G.I. Joe's and not let anyone in OUR room. Saying that no one was allowed inside, "you can't come in!" I never understood his abrasive attempt for loneliness, but he sure ( Read more... )

emily d. she's lounging on the couch, a little disgruntled about there not being any food in the house: no soy for the corn pops, no yogurt for the muesli, no toast for the jam ( Read more... )

Take me home!
Pittsburgh. Home? this is home!
Smelly feet and the joys of growing older.

that's what she said. I hope she stays that way.

What could possibly be better than sitting in a trailer that one of your best friends has just sitting in her back yard, smoking some crappy rolled cigarettes and playing the "who I'd have sex with" game? It was a laugh fest. I didn't realise that Hentai is basically cartoon rape. We ended our evening with The Wicker Man, which, by the way, is a ( Read more... )

the phonebooth is waiting.

She dumped out a hundred paper cranes that she had in her bag. She said they were from a wedding that she had attended. She saved them from being thrown out. She saved them from the horrible life that awaited them. She brought them to me. These paper cranes lay out on my bed and we look at them, talking about what to do. We want to string them up ( Read more... )