Wake up [technically]. Wander house. Spend day in coma. Worry about obligations. Waste sunlight. Read Croatian poetry/stretch/study beginner's Spanish. Clean kitchen/living room. Shower. Dress. Meditate i.e. put on makeup. Leave house. Wake up [actually]. Listen to music in car with [old friend(s), one (or more) of several]. Smoke bummed cigarette ( Read more... )

Ma jebiga.

And another thing;

Seattle without rain is like a rose without thorns. Incomplete.

The first rain always smells the best.

It's kind of sadly amusing.

Who could have imagined that the pain of being home, this heavy, crushing nostalgia, could actually beat the shit out of the nostalgia for home I felt in Croatia?

This sucks, kids. I love you all, but this still sucks.

The heat, the thickness of the air. Gravity feels heavier, and as I walked I couldn't breathe, oxygen laced in exhaust. And the blood that screams for nicotine, all thought collapses in on itself as it's step after step after step up a melting hill in the dead peak of afternoon sun. Everyone is gone; eyes averted laughing empty. You don't call, and ( Read more... )

Bush will be in Seattle tomorrow afternoon.

Anyone else feel like protesting?

[As if it would do shit. But at least I could express my disgust openly and be one in a number of other disgusted citizens, thus creating a message, which should, at least, make him uncomfortable. Should being the key word. Because a.) I doubt he could be swayed by ( Read more... )

Yesterday I searched online and found the address for a place called "Balkan Grille". It's located in a town called Tukwila, which is a somewhat ghetto-ish area a bit south of Seattle. I went. A tiny multi-color building, red blue yellow, all the blinds pulled. I enter, and every Balkan male eye at the bar whips around to see the random blonde ( Read more... )

All of a sudden I realized that I never talk about anyone directly in my livejournal anymore. It occured to me to wonder why. And I think I've realized that prior to this, what with being in Croatia and all, a) no one would know how the fuck to pronounce the names and that's always a pain in the ass, imagining how the combination of letters "hrvoje ( Read more... )

How long's it been since I last posted, or even read ( Read more... )

Hey kids, I apologize for my absence, yet again... Basically, I've just needed a few low-key days and a lot of being within the home vicinity to get back to normal. I'm still in a bit of subtle return-culture shock. And I decided that after basing all my American communication off of the internet, I didn't want to touch this motherfucker ever (try ( Read more... )