Dimly lit, plaster walls.

I follow her up the stairs,
uneven stairs
to match the uneven pace of my steps,
her gracefully uneven sway...

My hand moves up a wooden banister that's felt many hands before, many intoxicated followers.
She stops to glance back at me and our eyes meet momentarily,
but I turn my head to look down to the entrance ( Read more... )

A friend and I were discussing movies and she mentioned "500 Days of Summer".  I told her that on one hand I could relate very well to the situation presented in it as I'd certainly been there a time or two, and that for this reason I found the movie to be rather striking and poignant.  And I really like Joseph Gordon Levitt.  So I thought that it ( Read more... )

:ma9 dna ma3 neewteb yadrutaS
neewteb klawedis a nwod em gnidael tiftuo s'esrun a ni namow a saw erehT
yks ehT .teerts eht no srac yna t'nerew erehT .sgnidliub kcirb nworb\der
    on evah I .kcab reh ylno ,ecaf reh ees reve t'ndid I .yerg etiuq saw
 ni eno on saw erehT .gnidliub dlo na otni em koot ehS .saw ( Read more... )

I often go to Chipotlé for lunch.  I get a burrito and a large drink every time, and I always refill my large drink before I head back to my office.  Well, after already drinking so much iced tea the first time I filled the cup, I'm not very thirsty when I'm back at my office with the re-filled large.  So then I have this large cup of iced tea at ( Read more... )

It's funny, but I was more terrified of losing my hands than anything else. In fact, it's the only thing I was afraid of, aside from my camera being destroyed with them. All I could think to do was protect them with my body and head. I suppose it almost killed me ( Read more... )

This job is turning out to be quite a bit more intense than I was lead to believe before I came. I'm having to man these damn convoys almost every day. I was supposed to be doing an office job here. The convoys can be pretty stressful. These convoys often consist of just two or three up-armored Suburbans or Land Cruisers. We drive through a ( Read more... )

1 - passageway and departure ( Read more... )

It has been a strange trip. I arrived on a C-17 at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan at about 8pm. 8pm here is 11:30am central time. It's one of those weird time zones that's only a half hour ahead of the one before it. For some of the people that flew in there with me, Bagram was the final stop. I and a few other officers were heading towards ( Read more... )

This is a large city, bisected by interstates and highways and expressways. I drive on them every day, whether going to and from work, seeing a friend, or going out to eat. Sometimes I like to just drive across the city and think about things. But, for me, driving in this city can be terrifying. Many of these highways and expressways are enclosed ( Read more... )

I went to a co-worker's house yesterday evening to hang out with a bunch of people from work. Three of them are mothers, and they brought their kids, so I ended up spending most of my time there playing with an infant, two toddlers, and a four-year-old. I think I enjoyed them a lot more than the adults. Everyone was cooking and drinking and ( Read more... )