if one day, I came back from school and pompton lakes was nothing but a giant crater, I would be just fine with that...

I love my life.

The current countdown until I leave stands at less than 29 days ( Read more... )

Around 12:15 I went to lunch with Clare. It has been the first time since June 10th that we have done anything one-on-one (and that was brief at best). It should have been awkward... or at least, that's what you hear about. But in all honesty, it couldn't have been more enjoyable. I expected at least a bit of awkwardness, but it wasn't like ( Read more... )

Yesterday I went to work at 10:30 and Rick had me stand up at the register all day. His kids were there and they were just beatin the crap outta each other with whatever they could find: the telescoping grabber, lighters, knives, reflector stakes, etc. It was ridiculous. They did help kinda, but ultimately I was by myself all day. Which was not ( Read more... )

Yesterday, after working for 8 hours outside in the heat, and then in the rain, I came home and went to the movies with Sarah and Beth. We saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It wasn't all that good I guess, but it wasn't a bad evening. Then we dropped off Beth and Sarah and I hung out for a little while ( Read more... )

So I spent the day at the water park with my cousins. It was decent. I don't really have as much fun as I used to. I spent most of the day tempting fate and dropping down a practically vertical drop ( Read more... )

Yesterday I had band practice. Despite Chris being in Australia, Silversey being MIA and Sarah Grey not being there, my brother, Bart and I managed to begin completing "All The Things I'll Never Be" (I'm actually considering changing that title) and putting drum tracks to other songs ( Read more... )

If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is a law, and no amount of ( Read more... )