So. Busy tonight. Organizing thoughts, I suppose. I cought you up on San Francisco, the cliff notes, if you didn't know. I caught you up on right now, a bit ( Read more... )

So what am I doing right now ( Read more... )

What have I been doing? Or rather, how I spent my summer? Here's what I posted to my Facebook ( Read more... )

This is keeping me up, when I promised myself to sleep early and rise early. But the words won't stop, so here it goes ( Read more... )

Oh, hey, didn't see you there...

It's been a while, LJ. But I thought I could use a little bit of a clearinghouse for the last few months. Maybe even the last few years. I'm laying on an air mattress with my old futon thrown on it for extra fluff. In Texas. In the same room I moved into sixteen years ago when my family moved from Lago Vista to ( Read more... )

"I've seen too much of hospitals to relish any idea of collective punishment. But, as you know, Christians sometimes say that sort of thing without really thinking it. They're better than they seem."
- Albert Camus, The Plague

Less than three months, and I graduate. Am I scared ( Read more... )

“Basically, I agree writing novels is an unhealthy type of work. When we set off write a novel, when we use writing to create a story, like it or not a kind of toxin that lies deep down in all humanity rises to the surface. All writers have to come face-to-face with this toxin and, aware of the danger involved, discover a way to deal with it, ( Read more... )

Been busy. Sorta.

"Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important."
- Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living

"Perhaps, after all, America has never been discovered. I myself would say it had merely been detected."
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"It is hard ( Read more... )

“Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial stays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.”
- Charles Bradlaugh