I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there' ( Read more... )

I've decided to go about things completely differently: my way ( Read more... )

( Since I have a couple of new friends... )

They suck. Especially the kind that keep waking you up at night, because everyone loves sleep right? I know I do ( Read more... )

So I've read 2 amazing books in as many weeks, and I'm starting on a 3rd. I read between class and tutoring (and that's a LOT of time). I just finished this book called "Life of Pi." It's about a hindu boy who's moving from India to Canada when the ship he's on sinks. So he's out in the Pacific Ocean on a lifeboat, but he's not alone: there's also ( Read more... )

Wow. What a day yesterday was, huh?. It was kind of a grab bag of emotions for me. Started off bad. I was arguing with my dad for at least an hour before I had to go to Moraine about the whole situation with my mom. For those of you outside the loop, she hates me with a passion right now. I overheard her the other night telling my dad how she not ( Read more... )

Circumstance pulled Me away
draining hope and straining dreams
Fate has gone and trumpt My hand
playing thief, says I'm the cheat
Time's unkind and holds Me back
tries to tick the life from Me
but Chance and Luck are by My side
with them, anything can be

So with my long convo with Kristen, Lyndsey talking to me like a person again, and Mindy texting me out of the blue to say hi and see what's up, I'm slowly starting to realize that I still have people who care about me. For a real long time, I felt like I didn't have any friends. It just goes to show that there's power in initiating conversation. I ( Read more... )

My mom is a bitch. That said, let me clarify ( Read more... )

My dad won the primary. He's officially in the race for US rep of Illinois' 3rd congressional district.

Holy shit. I could be the son of a congressman...