It's a four minute walk from my apartment to Trader Joe's. The last time I was there, they had a big sign advertising that they were permanently extending their hours to 10 p.m., instead of 9. These two facts in tandem spurred me into action: I would go, at 9:20 p.m. or so, to get some milk (2%) and whatever else looked good. Whatever they have in ( Read more... )

I've determined that it's not that my ability to write has declined of late; my deficiencies lay in my inability to marshall the words I craft while walking when confronted with the stupefied yet expectant gaze of my computer screen. I put my best thoughts to paper on foot, but the paper is short-term, composed of synapses firing in my brain, and ( Read more... )

Two nights ago I was going to go to sleep, but I was also feeling really lonely, so I took my extra blanket, folded it up to roughly imitate the dimensions of another person and slept with it keeping me company. I woke up feeling horrible - my back ached, my arms ached, my neck was tense, my eyes were irritated, everything sucked and I was a zombie ( Read more... )

I can't wait until it strikes me to write something really substantial.

Until then, don't forget that on any given day, you can always just throw everything you're holding to the ground and start fresh with a new beginning. Seriously, any day, any time.

I am not an evergreen
The cold fills me with carotene
In winter I forget my dreams
Each one a thing that might have been

I am prone to bouts with abstraction. I haven't identified a reason in particular, but the dryness and blue sky seems to have done it today.

On my walk home, I considered at length how, at my core, I am but a humble collection of cells executing survival imperatives. When I shower, it is to increase my attractiveness to potential mates and to ward ( Read more... )

Today, I will jump.
I picked out a fitting spot:
On top of my bed.

Did journalism erode my writing ( Read more... )

The fear I have of not being close enough to all my friends this year and ending up with time wasted on being lonely is rising to a crescendo... I'm halfway through college, and I'm starting to get a little anxious about whether or not I'm using my time effectively enough. I lost probably the longest friendship I've had and it makes me relatively ( Read more... )

Online personals (OkCupid being the service I "use") are really, really interesting. Not because it introduces me to people who apparently have characteristics that are somewhat compatible with mine, as I've never tried to communicate with anyone I happened upon via the website, but rather because the manner in which people describe themselves is ( Read more... )