We save 18 dollars apiece round trip into NYC. From the train station next to my apartment complex, it is 50 minutes to the social/economic center of the east coast. Break dancers with hats instantly suggest the improbable. We ride the subway to union square, snowboarding competition. From there, brewery. Food and beer beer beer. Fantastic journey ( Read more... )

70 degrees in January driving windows down pulse rate up gusts of wind and breath can you feel me in your veins I am the rhythm slamming against your ear drum I am the white in your knuckles race outpace the thoughts no time for the mundane morose just invincible hugging turns I am the synapse in your brain with chemicals like dynamite Yo-Yos ( Read more... )

Start the year the way you want it to end.

Or, put another way, how you see yourself at the end of the year.

My parents house is no longer my home, in any sense of the word ( Read more... )

I hold myself, and all others, to impossible standards. I have always used fictional characters as role models, making the idealized self essentially unobtainable ( Read more... )

Shit can really pile up ( Read more... )

I saw one of my Psych professors at the liquor store yesterday ( Read more... )

I remember the dream I created last night ( Read more... )

I ease my bus through city traffic, sucking gasoline and grinding asphalt. Pointed honk and gesture, cautious wave and beep. I gently merge, watching traffic mold around me. Stoplights and yield signs break the gray. Hum and roar, heave and rock ( Read more... )

There is a window to my right. The blinds are between the glass and screen, I cannot touch them. I can turn, twist, change the illumination of my desk, but I can't move them out of the way of my view ( Read more... )