i was hanging out in this house that a bunch of guys lived in, but it was flooded up to the knees. they were just going about their business and didn't seem to care; either it was always like that or it happened often enough that they didn't even notice. the whole place was a pretty run down bachelor pad ( Read more... )

whoa, apparently the morbid/enthusiastic folks in charge of naming worldwide tropical storms have it all planned out for the next several years. while you're wondering how anyone could refute global warming, they have gone the extra mile and put faces on disasters yet undreamed of.it's like some weird roulette of annoying drop-in relatives - we ( Read more... )

after the acquisition of a digital camera, film starts to look like a quaint expensive investment. nor can you eat it, yet i have hopefully kept a large bag of it in a refrigerator drawer for years. finally the fridge real estate looked more useful than the film. i wrote it up on the 'free' page of craigslist, and offered to exchange it for any ( Read more... )

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i was in love with this man who may have once been a real person but had unfortunately become disembodied and had to be passed along from person to person to inhabit their body ( Read more... )

it seems strange to me that science and religion have ever been at odds. maybe at its inception science was a threat to faith, but with all we know now the scales feel tilted. at least, the more science i study, the more unfathomable it seems that all of this could have aligned by accident. a stack of science books seems like a huge treatise on ( Read more... )

two new developments: i am unemployed, and i am being over-educated ( Read more... )

somewhere in the back of my house (maybe in the yard by a ramshackle shed or more likely in a dilapidated old leaning hallway in the back made of that exposed composite laminated wood board stuff leading to some pantry door, anyway, in some creaky, dry, airy place in the back) were one or two doors that i discovered opened into dark, damp stone ( Read more... )

a large mansion was towed in sections into the lot next to our house. an entire hill was brought in, so this huge, empty castle was sitting on this huge, grassy hill with trees. it seemed mysterious and promising and i was excited to have it and its residents as neighbors, and thought maybe i'd get to hang out there. it was a big improvement on ( Read more... )

before i left for fiji, i caught up with all my netflix except for one: castaway with tom hanks. it didn't seem right to watch before traveling to an island. this evening, statistics homework decidedly finished, was the right time to watch it. of course, two weeks on an island on vacation is a far cry from four years stranded, but some of the ( Read more... )