If anyone could enlighten me as to what makes me so eminently forgettable a person, I would appreciate it. I doubt I could change anything about it, but at least I would know why it is that my name, despite being unique, fails to stick in minds; why I can be pushed from the memory like a desperate emigrant clinging to driftwood and freezing to ( Read more... )

Got this from Chaim - a quiz that tells you what belief system(s) most closely resemble yours based on a handful of very general questions. I truncated it to Top Ten belief systems, because getting "10% Jehova Witness" due to a belief in the general goodness of the human condition seems kinda pointless ( Read more... )

The world ends 11pm tonight! Make plans accordingly.

Man, I barely even touch this thing sober. I don't even know what to write.

A shot or two of rum will boil the brain ( Read more... )

We are ( Read more... )

When I dream about people I don't see any more, I am left to wonder which decisions I've made could have been made another way. Which were real choices and which were decided by my upbringing before I ever got to them? Could I truly have ended up anywhere but here ( Read more... )

I'm not 100% certain I'm much of anything any more. According to the genius LJ it's been 38 weeks or so since last I was outside my own head far enough to bother with this 5 AM style travesty of a thing in suspension. Still, I think it's probably better than the exit strategy; one can only be so many places at once, eh? All the better to see you ( Read more... )

Somehow, and I don't understand why, but somehow, the passage of time seems much more damning than I rationally know it to be. I mean, how many people get to be where I am at 25? How many people are significantly further ahead? Is it reasonable to measure "distance" - in this case progress, a non-quantifiable statistic based largely on subjective ( Read more... )

In recognition of me getting responses on both Ask Vic and ESPN GameNight today, I declare June 22nd Football Day. Happy Football Day, everybody!