OK LiveJournal, here's the deal. Somehow this became a repository for all of the bad feelings I've ever felt. I only post here when things are dire, and that's not very interesting, nor is it particularly constructive at this point. So something's got to give ( Read more... )

I'm all weepy today. I don't really know what the deal is, except that I have a lady issue that I suddenly wish I could talk to my mom about. That really sucks.

OK, here's the deal.

I am drunk, I am lonely, and I am sad.

The weekend stretches out before me like a vast wasteland.

I have eaten 12 root beer barrels today.

I hate The Starter Wife. Don't mess with me, Debra Messing.

I am unemployable. This is the root of my current emotional whatever.

I'm going to be OK.

I hope.

Well that BLEW.

When I was around seven years old my aunt and uncle moved into an old house in Decorah, IA. It had bright orange and gold shag carpeting running up and down the stairs, similarly colored linoleum in a faux tile pattern covering the floor in the kitchen, and a patch of acid green patterned shag growing out of the cement basement floor. I loved that ( Read more... )

When I was very small my mother’s co-worker (either Big Dan or Little Dan, I can’t remember which) gave me a big orange book filled with pictures of various global climes, along with an atlas containing maps which had long been out of date. I spent hours poring over these books, memorizing exotic place names and geographic proximities. I would ( Read more... )

I don't know what I'm going to do with the rest of my life ( Read more... )

I can't wait to get home for the summer ( Read more... )

Your father is on facebook? My GRANDMOTHER is on facebook. I WIN FOREVER.

Whirlwind weekend in the cities. Dadd came up to hear me present my senior seminar paper on Thursday, and then we packed and cleaned and stuffed the car full of my shit and went home Friday. We watched There Will Be Blood, The Dewey Cox Story and Martian Child. I read Little Brother, which is awesome and is online here. I bought a ton of manicure ( Read more... )