So last night I have this dream. I get in my car and decide to drive out West (of Boston). As I'm deciding on my route the scene skips somewhere and I'm leaving my house in Texas kinda sneaky-like to avoid parental disturbance. Only it's not my house, but the house my best friend grew up in. Anyway, I have to leave the house because I ( Read more... )

Ahh...It's the day before St. Valentine's Day which means that I hang another year out to dry and gear up for my 23rd cycle around the sun (for you critical thinking buffs, that makes me 22 today). It's an interesting contemplation combination today, a partly cloudy forecast if you will. Last night was fantastic, spent with old friends from my ( Read more... )

So, after our brief accidental conversational hiatus, Marianne has demanded that I tailor my next update to her lack of information on my life. I figure this will be a good "get to know John Mayer" session. Now, in Marianne's defense, she did not say outright that I needed to write such an update for her, but I could tell from her e-tone of voice ( Read more... )

I find it funny that, even with my life as busy and complicated as it stands, it is remarkably simple to take a day away from things. Not quite recuperated from the previous week and a half's occurences, I decided to avoid class today and made going to work my only calendar item today. It says something about the nature of my life when I can ( Read more... )

It takes a champion to ski. True champions sit in the ski lodge while their unprepared (and perhaps grossly unqualified) associates try [unsuccessfully] to keep track of reckless and bratty youth that "know" that they can take any run on the mountain. That's right. I did my part. Trinity Church needed a lodge mentor and it seemed only ( Read more... )