i'm on a subway
to a place i can't pronounce
but at least i didn't pay.

a train of thought
for a movie plot
starring you and me
insane

can i tempt you
with natural disasters?
i do not feel guilty about abandoning this journal, because that isn't the case. very simply, i have no computer access at my house, so trips to campus are the only way i can ( Read more... )

one side effect of leaving the radio on all afternoon: hearing the weather reports as they are announced and adjusted.
as soon as i heard we were under a thunderstorm warning, i pretty much ceased working and opened the window.
while waiting for the sky to erupt into silvery diagonal string, i thought about these old pictures.


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i don't really have much to say, except i am starting to experience a scratchy throat, which can only mean one thing. also, it's 4:30am and i am still awake -- this sleep schedule for probably the third week in a row. habit has turned into a revolving daily pattern. i REALLY want that to stop, and i suppose moving home on tuesday will sustain me ( Read more... )

i walked around a lot tonight, ditched my crutches behind the "mars attacks" pinball game at the black cat, and then had to wait like ten minutes for the mohawk-wearing lady to finish her multiball. didn't bother to pay for the Q and not U show, instead listened to joe mcredmond spin prince and talking heads while looking incredibly bored. just got ( Read more... )

happy birthday evan.

finally accomplished some hearty, long-overdue reading for a couple of my courses. to engender this sudden spirit of Actually Working Hard for Class In Preparation For My Finals [the first of which takes place in just about an hour], i've reduced myself to assorted measures of trickery. reading in my car with the windows down as it started to ( Read more... )

leslie [not the obvious one, for those who know my history with leslies] brought to my attention the other day, there is already a band called desaparecidos, featuring that sickly cocaine-addled oberst fella from bright eyes. despite the "connor-tation" -- which i *didn't* mean to imply -- i chanced upon that word fair and square, and i have no ( Read more... )

three long beeps. elevator at the fourth floor. back to the door. it is the prefix, the suffix. it's the original and the remix. this is home for another week, until the semester ends ( Read more... )

been up for about 40 hours with only a 3 hour nap, between 10am-1pm today. nothing registers negative on the radar, and i don't really feel bad about this, or even wired. but maybe a little manic. every visual stimulus reduced to its basic shape -- white light monitor photons are rectangular, purple-grey shadows form triangles, dark ovals and ( Read more... )

vivid dreams last night, asleep from 5am until now. someone like a kid brother figure, regressing into curled up balls inside his laundry bag, swimming to the depths of a lake and beneath an underwater island-ledge, lots of high school first-day stuff, catching school busses, the reoccurrence of many youthful arlington motifs, as well as a kid's ( Read more... )