They say it's a stupid mistake to quit your job before you find a new one. Turns out the real mistake is staying in a shit job for eight years.

"Selfish query," an email to my writing teacher ( Read more... )

I lost a large chunk of my writing via my computer.

I brush my teeth in the shower. This is what it feels like to accidentally get toothpaste in your urethra.

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There are two square slots in our ceiling. One is in my room, and the other in the hallway between Sam's room and the bathroom. Today I parkoured into them and found a beehive, and a red plastic suitcase.

The suitcase was empty -- just like the floorboards. What a let down.

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If I have to sit through a fifty-page "portrait" of a woman who uses a ouija board to help decipher meaning from her exorcisms, alien abductions, and rape-by-lizardman on a distant world, then writing isn't worth my time.

But at least my house has a connection to the street. I don't know how much longer I can not spy on my creepy neighbors. They leave a baby outside at night, in one of those baby swings. Sometimes they speak, but it's always in Russian. They yelled about our dog once, while he was in California. I was too shocked to see them outside at the same time ( Read more... )

Like a hobo, I was born to walk alone.