Hi.  I'm alive.  I can't update this in a timely fashion these days.  I'm writing a research paper for Peer Tutoring at the moment.  The paper will be fine, but I really do not wish to write it.

Let's see, this month...

October started on the first.  It was hot.  Humid.  Uncomfortable.

A lot of things came out and it cooled down.  Slowly.  Gradually.

I ( Read more... )

I commented, last Monday, that so long as Yom Kippur falls on a Monday, that I will always be a sinner ( Read more... )

What a strange, twisted, warped month.  I'd be lying if I said I made it through unscathed.

It just burned the whole way through, and never stopped.  Different fires, though.  Fires of anger, fires of passion, fires of rebirth and fires to cauterize infectious forests.

September is here, like a battleship ready to depart for some distant warzone, its ( Read more... )

http://www.jeffvandermeer.com/2009/08/19/last-drink-bird-head-update/

Read the brief article and scan the list of writers.

-VB

Lily left for California for two weeks.  I'm going to surprise her when she gets back.
I got a B in my class thing.
Dad and I ordered all my books for Fall.  We're reading Blood Meridian in Dustin's American Lit. class.  I couldn't fucking believe it, that's so fucking awesome.  The book is still great, bee-tee-dubs.
I made some couscous.  It's ( Read more... )

While Lily worked on Biology, I finished No Country for Old Men.  Absolutely incredible.  McCarthy is, without a doubt, my new favorite author.

So I've read The Road and this.  Next is Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West.  it's a western, set in 1850.  Based on everything I've heard about it, I'm expecting to love it.

Not since ( Read more... )

Melatonin is fighting my subconcious and losing.  I still can't sleep.

I kindof ache.

Maybe it's nothing.

-A

After my midterm, things really relaxed.  My schedule for Fall is great:

Monday/Wednesday: Afternoon class (Major Figures in American Lit. with Dustin Anderson [Dustin was that awesome instructor from Fall '07 in World Lit.  He showed us 300 in class.])
Tuesday/Thursday: Classes from 11-3:15, 15 min. gaps between (Start with a Senior Seminar "most ( Read more... )

In less than 24 hours, I'll be in Tucson with Mike.

I'm all parts nervous and excited and anticipating the trip, though I'll state that this weekend is an odd clusterfuck of events and things coming together.  My brother is in town, and my dad has some issue with me because I didn't do what he asked or something similarly minor, and Josh is testing ( Read more... )

The night before last I had another dream about zombies.  No Satan this time, just the good old-fashioned living dead.

I was in my house.  Dave and Dad were gone.  Mom was home.  Don't know where they were.  I knew they were coming.  My room naturally had an arsenal and a secret escape route to the zombie defense headquarters or whatever nonsense.

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