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I'm going to be hiking the Appalachian Trail this spring. I'll be leaving here April 3rd, and start on Monday, April 4th. I'm looking to finish the 2100+ mile trek by the Fourth of July. I'll be walking alone, staying the FUCK out of motels and expensive-assed hiker shelters along the way, and overall just enjoying the fact that life will be ( Read more... )

So here I am on my 21st birthday, finishing a book with a cup of coffee and a bouqet of sweetheart roses, and I realize who my true friends are. I realize who my friends are, and who they most certainly aren't. Today has been a useful day for getting to know myself, but most importantly the roles of others in my life. And in that spirit, I've ( Read more... )

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I am so sick and fucking tired of people. I am so amazingly frustrated with the fact that my life depends on my interactions with them, because dreams are dead in this day and age. Fucking DEAD. No-one knows what they want anymore! NO-ONE! And if you have no dreams, then you, yourself are dead until you have them. Whether they're dreams of ( Read more... )

I've taken to watching basketball a bit lately because, well, hockey isn't on TV for some strange reason. So I'm watching the Pacers and Pistons square off, and... well... I don't know anymore, people. Maybe baseball is the only sport left that's worth watching ( Read more... )

We're probably going to lose the house by the end of the year.

Merry fucking Christmas.

-Owen

 

Sadness is such a basic feeling, it feels weird in this day in age to feel either one side or the other of the emotional spectrum without any clouding confusion or ambivalence ( Read more... )

...and in this dream, I see a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men, gay or straight, were created equal. I see universal health care. I see bilingual school children. I see a woman's right to choose being honored. I see votes FOR politicians, and not against. I see actual public referendums on key ( Read more... )