Health
-Quit drinking for a month at least
-Spend more time in the pool and on the bike
-Go to bed before 1:30 am every night
-Eat more raw veggies/fruit

Creative
-Spend an hour a day on art/song writing
-Encourage others to do the same

Professional/Financial
-Spend an hour a day on grant proposals
-Spend less than $30 a week on going out

For the past couple of weeks I have been trying to help two musicians (Dave Cattani and Eddie Buchanan) through the process of producing a live album and documenting it. For the most part I have stayed a bystander. Probably because I don’t feel it is my place to mold a creative endeavor between two people (and despite what they may say Eddie and ( Read more... )

I have stuck for nearly a year now.  It has been one of the best years of my life, but it is time for me to move on.  Last night at work, a guy and I started talking.   He was in town for business and runs a regional company.  He looks at me and says, "You've got it, you will be successful."  It was exactly what I needed.  

...after tonight, no one will believe my prophesies.

Last night I found myself in the arms of friends; weeping, convulsing, unable to speak. I suppressed everything throughout the day, waiting for someone who would breach the levee in a single loving touch ( Read more... )

There is a stillness in my grandmother's house that hasn't existed in weeks. The makeshift nurse corps of family has finally left the house my grandparents built; allowing it to groan, creak, and sag with the weight of death ( Read more... )

The hardest part of all is watching the strongest woman I know shit herself.

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I keep receiving friend requests from Mexican punk bands on Myspace. It really makes me miss the place.

"You don't know where you will be in ten years." How right you were, but I would like to have some vague notion.

If I am supposed to have this job, I guess I will.