Joseph Paine to me: "You're the most rational person I know ( Read more... )

It's 4 a.m ( Read more... )

Smoke, as it comes home on your clothes, smells different here than in the Land of a Thousand Essay Crises. The glazed eyes of a drunk girl shine differently; people are unchanged and quaintly one-dimensional in a different sort of way. I like to think I'll always be the one who just sort of sits idly in the corner, chatting occasionally and ( Read more... )

I've done the math enough to know
The dangers of our second guessing
Doomed to crumble unless we grow
And strengthen our communication

1. Because it is stuck in my head:

You're listening too close
With a knife in your back
You're on the attack--did I hurt you that bad?
You're sweating me, girl, and it's not even subtle
Oh, I am in trouble:
What to do now in my world?Yeah yeah, my flirtation with triteness--I'll get tired of it and go back to music with depth in a couple of days. ( Read more... )

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. - St AugustineI have lived a handful of days in a blur: weeks, really, of settlement in Oxford and an unbelievably busy term, and I have come to the decision that some of them deserved to be lived without being written about. Others must never die, and Monday the 14th November 2005 should be one of ( Read more... )

Right so are all of these the same? Step one I put some lyrics in italics, step two I pontificate for a while, step three I tell you what I did today, and step four I lie about what music I listened to so I don't seem like a nerdface otaku who plays the same CD over and over... Is anyone else tired of this format ( Read more... )

I got my stitches stitched, I got my fixes fixed ( Read more... )

I apply self-pity like it says I ought to apply shampoo: lather, rinse, repeat. And here in this city with the healthy engagers of my time having departed, I also sort of wallow in a sticky combination of cowardice and demented, stagnant dissatisfaction ( Read more... )

"This is swiftly becoming the worst week of my life." - M.C. Schuller

Amen, sir. Amen.