I love you like the sun loves the horizon - kissing it in passing every dawn and dusk, broadcasting its radiance across the sky in beautiful hues for everyone to see.

i'm totally in love in a way that makes all of the shit i've waded through in life not only okay, but necessary. like, the path i've been down in life had to happen for me to be in this position and i wouldn't trade any of it for the world. the hardest part is holding back that word - the four letter "l" word - until i can tell the other person ( Read more... )

i went to stone gardens last night for a climbing 101 class. bought a bunch of climbing gear with my cs4 ship bonus over the weekend. was also able to use some commuter vouchers from work and a gift certificate that brian's parents got me as a graduation gift. it was a lot of fun. i'm sore in new places, but that's also a lot of fun. i'm hoping to ( Read more... )

i'm trying to decide between two choices for spending my cs4 ship bonus ( Read more... )

i showed up to work at 7:00 AM.

i'll be leaving at 8:00 PM.

tomorrow and the next day will likely be the same schedule. i just hope my efforts are noticed and that i can somehow pull out a promotion this next year.

knowing my humble nature, these efforts will likely go largely unnoticed and unrewarded.

boo human.

it's like explosions - rockets and billowing displays of firepower - sent up from somewhere near my solar plexus and exploding outward in the center of my chest ( Read more... )

"...if a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."

i've been mormon all week. no drinking, no drugs, no sex, not even caffeine. the first couple days seemed really odd. it was hard to pull all of my thoughts in line, my brain was scattered. now, things have leveled out and life is just... well... it's life. it's not "drunk life" after work or "slow life" before my morning cup of coffee(s). it's not ( Read more... )

there was a man on the side of the aurora bridge this morning. now there is just a police scene below the bridge.

the end.

on the way into work i watched police officers trying to talk a man from a ledge on the side of the aurora bridge. ledges are scary - you have to simultaneously fight the fear of falling from the ledge along with a secret fear that you may just throw yourself off. to see someone on one and to have seen so many other people below one... it's just ( Read more... )