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today I got a haircut.  I feel so much lighter and cooler (in the temperature sense, though it does look better than the mop I was rocking).

((I have deleted and rewritten this entire paragraph because it was obnoxiously vague.  here goes take two, now with 50% more radical honesty))

I've infrequently been involved in ( Read more... )

it's the end of the world as we know it, and i feel fine ( Read more... )

i'm on the upswing. pleased with people, pleased with life, creatively occupied.

these are the times that get me through the other times.

ps call a nigga bout hangin out. that means all of you!

things come in waves, go out in waves, return.  my energy, my mood, my entire outlook fluctuates with greater frequency and severity than i am comfortable with. still it's always nice when the pendulum swings to the good things again.  every day i learn patience.  i have so very much to learn in that regard.  things are no better or worse than they ( Read more... )

a door's width away the world is all wrapped and wreathed with mist and magic.  footsteps clatter on slick asphalt, slide on glistening leaves.  streetlamps like twinkling stars, high beams that shoot great columns of light through the fog.  gnarled branches, bent and grasping at the thick soup of night ( Read more... )

i am no longer content to muddle through things.  i feel like everything is out there, surrounding me, waiting to be realized, pulled into a cohesive entity.  if only i could make sense of it all.  it's frustrating beyond measure ( Read more... )

HOORAY WE HAVE A NEW PRESIDENT ( Read more... )

i fucking love halloween.  words cannot capture the depth of my adoration for this, the best holiday ever.  i'll be spending the weekend working by day, reveling with my friends by night.  all the freaks are coming out and i find it exhilarating ( Read more... )

listen to the tales and romanticize how we'd follow the path of the hero.
boast about the day when the rivers overrun, how we'd rise to the height of our halo.

listen to the tales as we all rationalize our way into the arms of the savior,
feigning all the trials and the tribulations; none of us have actually been there-
not like you.

ignorant ( Read more... )

i'm indecisive, but only because i'm weighing things very carefully.  i need my heart to be whole on an issue before i can act wholeheartedly.  if a stone is required, i will be a stone. if something else is required, i will do that too. it's entirely possible that what's required is that i continue to walk this fine line, and i fear that most ( Read more... )