The dreams you make illogical ( Read more... )

I feel that when one begins in life there is at most slight leanings towards one kind of attitude or another, some people are instinctually more friendly as young children and others more prone to solitude but the major fallacy of claiming personality differences is assuming that these initial directions necessarily create permanent behaviors.  ( Read more... )

if i choke enough bile down ( Read more... )

    I had almost forgotten you little friend: Scott, the writer.  I'm going from place to place, freefalling through life, finding happiness and losing it and finding it, at least 3 times a day.  Then I look around all at once and I want to tell my story, or in my case, hint at it obliquely through poorly disguised metaphors.  I want to write about ( Read more... )

I was looking at my friend's bookshelf and thinking of all those stories up there, all that fiction and non-fiction, and most of the books she had read and I had not, then I suddenly realized why I had so many books on my own bookshelf, and why I had read so many of them but wanted to keep them around: they aren't for me, they're for you.  As I was ( Read more... )

     I forgot how old I was the other day.  For me this semester at U of A seems like the first semester but really that was a long time ago.  Its as if I had been standing still while time passed me by.  My life is simpler than it has ever been.  There is the constant call of school and work and frequent intervals of hanging out with roommates and ( Read more... )

hetero sapiens

is that funny or am i late getting to the party?

Do you ever feel, in the midst of some disturbing thought, that life, your life, is amazing. Sometimes when I'm reading, or depressed, or simply exhausted I rebel for one second and consider what life is to me. At times like these it lies by my side quietly pulsing like a dream, its soft red glow like the last embers of a fire or the tiny light ( Read more... )

What is it about boys that have that slightly unshaven look and wear glasses ( Read more... )

It might seem pretentious, but its also quite relentless, this feeling of ennui. Sometimes I feel as if I need things, want things, feel things, but typically I just float. And it is said that someone else shouldn't add meaning to your life, but if they can't, then what can? Two zeroes don't add up to anything so far as I remember. It's so ( Read more... )