Well, ATA and Aloha both just declared bankruptcy and won't be honoring our return tickets come late May. I can either look at this as a way to get off this island earlier and broker or as the terrible possibility that I could be stuck on this infantile chunk of earth for even longer. I should have been spending all this time writing out gobs of ( Read more... )

wow, it takes me longer to delete spam than it does to actually read and respond to my e-mail which is why I prefer spending my time on livejournal when I get the chance but the few people I communicate with only via e-mail then take so long to get in touch with that by the time I am ready to post this entry I have already used up valuable computer ( Read more... )

Ya know how weird it is to watch your skin get blown off by a spray of water?!? I have a 4 inch groove down the outside of my forearm near the elbow from putting my arm on the wrong side of the pressure washer gun while cleaning kava from the recent harvest. I'm pretty good at dealing with hurting myself but the specifics of the situation were a ( Read more... )

So, if you are writing and reading all the time you can't be getting dumber, right? This kind of behaviour has its abilities to maintain otherwise rusty vocabulary and keep oiled and ready the gears of a stagnant-esque mind? Hmmmmm.... I mean, hey, whatsup?

Well. I live in a tent and I'm 26 now. It sounds intentional and as if I am making some point by having those things in the same sentence but I didn't think about it till after I wrote it. Like, wow, I finally achieved what I've been striving for or like, wow, I'm a little old for this. I feel a little bit of both, honestly. I know I should ( Read more... )

So, here I am in Hawaii again. I think I really really like it here. The lack of snakes and spiders and any non-domesticated mammal bigger than a rodent is a factor, I think. Too bad it is so far away from my family, who I feel a little guilty about not being with at the moment considering my brother's recurrence of renal failure. He's doing ( Read more... )

Friendly postings reminding me of "test your idiocy" games. My parents and I quizzed each other on how many of the 15 countries in the former Soviet Union we could name. I managed about 8 without hints and got to 11 with some prompting. I don't think that's too bad for a United Stateser with horrific history teachers who gave no thought to ( Read more... )

I have decided that noone but myself and my immediate family will have one iota's worth of say in ANY decisions I make for the next year at least if not for the rest of my natural life. I love his apartment and I love my job, but there is no reason for the two to be 79 miles apart from each other. There is no need for me to put up with spaced-out ( Read more... )

Wow, that's a long time for an entry. Hmmm....I wonder how I used to do it sometimes, all the school and the e-mailing and the social time and the intense, almost obsessive fascination with my classes and friends--whether I gave my all to any of it. If I squeezed every little drop of what I have to be thankful for out of all that my former ( Read more... )

"knowin' that you lied ( Read more... )