In this post, your beloved author shows that he CAN write updates while sober ( Read more... )

So it has come to my attention that some of my readers are sick of my red map. I suppose it wouldn't kill me to update this LJ ( Read more... )

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Being home is always a mixed bag. My time is too often spent watching tv with my parents. Given our differing tastes in entertainment & my dad's monopoly on the remote, this is often a penitential act. Right now I am "enjoying" the Bonnie Hunt Show ( Read more... )

Konnichiwa.

I like bowling.

That is all.

I was reading some Victorian Gothic at the coffee shop when in hopped a small tan-colored bird--a New World Sparrow, perhaps. Even though the sky threatened rain, my local caffeine dealers had opted to keep the doors open. Perhaps they knew that the sparrow would duck in, bobbing his head in time with Stereolab before second-guessing his decision ( Read more... )

My house is about to get much smaller. Two people are moving out within the next month... which means that there will be six guys in a ten bedroom house. Also, I just learned that two of those six are way behind on their rent and have no employment. I think we might get booted out of here soon ( Read more... )

Although my life has the same number of anxieties as it did in my last post, things have become a bit more manageable thanks to a weekend trip to casa van Hoff up in The Shire. I had some really good conversations, I escaped the people and places that had been stressing me, and "what's most importantly," I threw back some beers and shot some aliens ( Read more... )

As I sit here waiting for Financial Aid to tell me whether or not I need to pack it in and flee Philly (potentially taking a leave of absence), I had the delightful experience of external hard drive failure this afternoon. Instead of giving me access to my library of term papers, music, and photos, I get serenaded with a rhythmical clicking sound ( Read more... )

Every time I consider ending this account, I'm reminded that it's the only online social site in my stable which allows me to type more than three or four clauses at a time. I guess I will keep it ( Read more... )