Once upon a time, long ago in a nearby land, there lived a boy. This boy was the son of a witch and a warrior. He had courage and honor and magic in his blood, and his destiny burned bright and clear like a candle on a midwinter's day. However, the boy was young and foolish. He allowed distractions and hardships to steal away his attention. His ( Read more... )

On Thursday, a very cute puppy adopted me. Her name is Loki. This name just popped into my head, but it's cool that she'll fit into Nolen's dog pantheon.

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I am invincible and awesome.  This should already be apparent, but further evidence:  yesterday I was upset.  Things seemed bleak and black and smothering... for about twenty minutes.  This kind of thing used to happen to me every month, for days if not weeks at a time.  It's happened once since June, and for twenty minutes.  Today I showed up the ( Read more... )

I quit my job, I'm not going to testify either.

Also, MKCC rocks my world.

Today at work a homeless crackhead stole a bunch of movies and ran out the door.  I wouldn't have chased him, for multiple reasons, but a vigilante-type guy dashed after him and led him at gunpoint back to the store to wait for the cops to come arrest him.  The guy was understandably scared shitless by the vigilante customer (who, by the way, is ( Read more... )

I've been reading the books for my awesome Masarachia american social organizing class early.  They're all pretty interesting so far, but I've made the most progress through the one called Solidarity Forever: An Oral History of the IWW.  The book mixes brief synopses of regions of the country and the IWW's involvement in their labor history with ( Read more... )

More and more lately, I'm beginning to appreciate bad things that happen to me.  And good things that don't happen to me.  Or rather, I ignore all of the above and just become extra happy when a good thing DOES happen.  I just focus on what's good and do my best to maintain a complete lack of positive expectations.  Well, wait, that's not right ( Read more... )

I'm looking forward to so much in my life, probably more than ever, and yet I'm more happy and content with my life than I can ever remember being, too.  I'm not happy because of the future, I'm happy because of the present.  The future will be great, too, though ( Read more... )

Life is so incredibly good and easy if you let it be.  I feel like everyone who's depressed and despairing, including me for the vast majority of my life, is or was just bored and craving attention.  The only requirement for happiness is the will to be happy.  The only requirement for love is the belief that you're worthy of it.  You just have to ( Read more... )