I woke up to my phone ringing. It was October and the last semester of college. I was living in a house with five other guys, and I was the only person to get his own room. I had three items in my room that would be considered furniture. I had a wooden box that was made out of some plywood I found on the street. There was a big brown chair that I ( Read more... )

Lots of things happened to me when I was in college. Oddly enough one of the more memorable things that happened was between me and my roommate Sean. We could take one piece of fruit from the cafeteria each meal. Without really knowing it, both Sean and me were stock piling fruit in our room. One day I saw his pile of fruit and asked him what was ( Read more... )

I just arrived home from school. I was 16 years old and did not have my drivers license yet. I was the only one home because my mom didn't get home till around 4 and my dad was down the street working on a job site. My sister was probably at basketball practice or something of that nature. The phone rang almost as soon as I walked into the door. ( Read more... )

I had just woken up on a Saturday in autumn. It was probably around 9 am. I was standing in the kitchen about to make a bowl of cereal. I looked out the window to see what kind of day it was. I saw my dad walking up to the back door and there was a man following him. My dad had a towel wrapped around his hand that was soaked in blood. I thought to ( Read more... )

The other day my father and I were working on water lines in the basement of a neighbors house. It was the copper type of water lines and you have to use a torch to get them to connect together. My dad was heating up a line that was in this hard to reach area and I was standing off to one side. I was not paying much attention but when I looked up I ( Read more... )

I went to my friends birthday part last night and Ron Swanson was there. I cracked up all night just listening to him talk. He also caused a scene by called some girl a bitch and to shut her mouth. What a great time.

We have been working at this house in Yates City. We remodeling several rooms in the house. Its a very old building and there are a lot of weird holes and is built sort of strangely. Well in this house there is a black cat. The cat is terrified of us. Whenever we get there it disappears and hides somewhere upstairs. Well two times we have almost ( Read more... )

The other day my neighbor called my house and asked if I would help him hang a deer so that its blood would drain. I said "sure Ill come over." I get there he has the deer field dressed and ready to go in his little shed. So I grab one leg and he grabs the other and we go to hang it up on these hooks that he has. I get my leg on right away. He has ( Read more... )

My artwork is a study of paint and the accessibility that the viewer has to it. In this, it has developed into a large exercise in rationalization and intuitive creativeness. Throughout the development of my artwork, color and the movement of paint has moved to the forefront of my interest during the creative process. However, as a result of this ( Read more... )

When is Nathan Blankenship going to grow up? Maybe when he stops posting on his livekournal when he is feeling angsty.