It hadn't really been an eventful night, well, perhaps it was, but I was tired anyway. It was late, it was cold, and it was the same road again, empty except for the one lone automobile putting along. As the scenery slowly whizzed by - it seemed blurry through the thin layer of fog on my windshield - I wondered about the sleepy houses that I passed ( Read more... )

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Better late than never!

Sometimes I think I can make sense of basically everybody, but no one understands me.
Othertimes I feel like everyone understands me but I don't get anybody at all.

Perhaps I'm missing something, but it doesn't seem that simple.

I've decided that regardless of the turnout, it does not have to necessarily be interpreted as a pattern of behavior that will forge a path for me later in life ( Read more... )

"shit, you can learn anywhere..."

I was at dinner the other night in the pleasant company of a large, brightly-lit fish tank, among other insignificant things. There were about four or five fish puttering around in the tank, quite complacently, poking at bubbles and specks of unknown substances in the water, sometimes drifting from one corner of the tank to the next. One fish in ( Read more... )

What do you think life would be like if people didn't run around with the delusional idea that they're better than others?

So, what that world's going to be like for me during the next two months just hit me like a ton of bricks.

And my first response was to deliberately ignore it.
Perhaps that was just for today.

Just for the record, if I was writing these for myself, they'd all be private ( Read more... )

After finishing Galapagos, I found myself oddly reminded of Dostoevsky.