today felt so good outside. it was still 80+ degrees, but it felt so much cooler than 94, and with the breeze, the smells of autumn could almost be detected. too bad this wicked headache spoiled (and is spoiling) the rest of the evening ( Read more... )

so i've made the difficult decision to get a second, part time job. more money? less free time? we all gotta make sacrifices somewhere. especially with a baby on the way. i figure that from september to december, that'll be an extra $1000 in my pocket. er, in the doctor's pocket, since that's how much the birth will cost--at a minimum. they weren't ( Read more... )

recovered the scooter. cops found some douche bag riding it in west asheville (read: ghetto). got the scooter for us, but we won't know until tomorrow if said bag of douche was arrested, released on bail, and/or available for us to press charges and possibly sue for a few paltry thousand. my dad said the dude prolly doesn't have that much, seeing ( Read more... )

i long for the autumn. i long to see muted colors ablaze on the mountainside, slowly spreading in all directions like a bloodstain. i long to be able to step outside and breathe in the cool air, instead of a lungful of stagnant humidity. i want to feel old ghosts in the air again, slowly coming out of their graves to haunt the shadows in between ( Read more... )

this morning, at about, oh, 230 am or so, david's scooter was stolen. mind you, it was locked up against the pole outside with an impenetrable cable lock, one that is about two inches thick and impossible to cut. so the bastards took the time to pick the key lock. which means they came prepared. which means they've scoped the place out before. ( Read more... )

can't write without being negative on myself and my laziness. so, let's focus on the good, here, and not about the messes cluttering every flat surface available in this little apartment ( Read more... )

so a little while ago david showed me a youtube video of a bride-to-be who freaks out over her hairstyle, and an hour before the wedding in her hotel room, she screams as if dying a horrible death and starts hacking away at her hair. she screeches for her bridesmaids to not stop her, then once realizing the damage, she is hysterical in asking her ( Read more... )