Getting out of my present funk has been hard. I'm usually a fairly resilient person when it comes to facing the downside of social existance, but this whole mess has really gotten me tangled internally. I find myself straying from the crowd, forsaking interaction in lieu of time alone. I'm not looking to meet new people, I'm not going out of my way ( Read more... )

"The thing about getting shot no one ever tells you is not the pain. Although there is pain. It's not the blood, though there's always blood. And it's not the taste of vomit in your mouth, though that's there too. No, the thing about getting shot no one ever tells you is that if you don't die -- you get really, really disgruntled ( Read more... )

Although the Brain is dead and gone, his alter ego is still alive and kickin'! For all of you who have enjoyed How to Be a Villain: The Brain, please feel free to check out the next stage of Art's life as he attempts to segue into another alias, that of the Harlequin, P.I.

Starting June 22, 2004

"In the life of the Wicked, there is no after. In the ever after of the Wicked, there is no happily. In the story of the Wicked, there is no epilogue. Of that part that is beyond their life story, beyond the story of life, there is - alas, or perhaps thank mercy - no telling (Adapted from Maguire ( Read more... )

Even though the school year is over and my business with CHS is done, at least for a time, I'm still contemplating in the aftermath of my senior year the events that led me to where I am now. I suppose, in some way, I'll always be casting a look over my shoulder at the past, wondering "what if" and "were it different", how would I have changed ( Read more... )

For the first time in a long while, I thought I had a set of expectations that would be neither surpassed nor unfulfilled, simply met as I'd outlined them. Well, no such luck. I went into graduation with one mindset and came out with quite another ( Read more... )

"They don't hate you...you're just...unexpected ( Read more... )

From Thursday until now, I've been working too much. I decided awhile ago that I would test myself to find what my limits are when it comes to working. I believe that with this last run, I've found it. Renaissance and Commencement are both squarely on the horizon and there's little I can do until it's time. God, I just feel stressed and wound up ( Read more... )

"So if you care to find me, look to the western sky. And if I'm flying solo, at least I'm flying free. To those who ground me: Take a message back to them from me ( Read more... )

Maritza told me something during one of our breaks that caught me off guard. She knows about my ill-fated pursuit of Kelly, my complicated attraction to the Raven. She told me that this cruise was going to be the last time I'd have the chance to ask her to dance. I'd flirted with the idea at Homecoming and Prom, but never carried through. I didn't ( Read more... )