My plans for this weekend? Teach karate class. Then go to Mill Ave., where all the freaks hang out. Shop at Urban Outfitters. Clean my apartment and take down my Christmas tree (yes it's still up. Shut up.). Go get a massage at a spa that was a Christmas gift. Maybe go to the Renaissance Festival if I can find someone to go with. Thank God for 3 ( Read more... )

I need to do some aerobic, stress-releasing, cathardic exercise that will leave me too exhausted to focus on the fact that I'm alone. Yeah, I've been belly-aching about this for a little while now, but it just keeps getting worse, not better. I want to be in love. I want to be amazed at the wonder that is love. I want to give myself over to the ( Read more... )

So someone on the Rmy boards just talked about how a character in Harry Potter dies - I haven't read that far yet into the books and I'm pissed! Did you ever stop to think that maybe not everyone in the world has read that part yet and you should keep your effin trap shut!?!?!?! GREAT. Thanks for ruining it for me. Just for that I should jump ahead ( Read more... )

LoversI saw this today. And it was one of the most unbelievable things I've ever seen. After 5,000 years, they still lay together in an embrace. How incredibly romantic is that ( Read more... )

Current temp in Chicago: 9 degrees F

Current temp in Phoenix: 75 degrees F

Phoenix FTW!

I'm going swimming tonight...

...that the walls are closing in? That everyone is annoying and you can't figure out why? That a co-worker's cologne makes you want to jump out the window, risking life and limb, just to get the hell away? That you want to throw all your papers and pens and keyboard into the air like confetti at a parade and walk out the door, never looking back ( Read more... )

Do you even know what you're saying? Do you think this somehow makes you cool, that now you'll be envied and adored? Do you even know how damaging this all is? Do you care? What the hell is wrong with you???

Is it possible for a person to die of boredom? I'm being serious. Here I am, sitting at my desk, trying desperately to not crawl out of my skin and scream in response to the agonizingly slow clock that's been the same time for the past hour now. I can't stand it. I can't stand this job anymore, this place, this desk, this monotony that is driving ( Read more... )

I just learned that something very important to me, something that I have devoted the last 6 years of my life to, something that owns my heart more than anything on this planet ever did, might be coming to a screeching end very, very soon. And I feel my heart being torn out of my chest as I write this. This possible ending is the culmination of ( Read more... )

An interview with Bob and Gerard from Japan.