it's not that i don't believe you, exactly, but frankly i'm a bit of a skeptic when it comes to well, just about everything. i'm an atheist, for crying out loud. i've just never seen anything convincing enough to make me go against what i can easily experience in a concrete and tangible way. i've had friends who've discussed auras and ghosts with ( Read more... )

rrrrrr, grumble-grumble. rrrrrr, mmph arrr. rawrrrawrrr mmmmgrmm hmph.

 
it's another painfully quiet day here at the office. with the way things are going, an already slow time of year has become painfully so. i'm used to having a lot of idle time here in this office, but this time of year is the worst, moreso because of the troubled economy. so, i come up with ways to entertain myself when there isn't much action ( Read more... )

"Do you sometimes find me tedious?"

"Sometimes. I simply don't understand you. Everything seems great one minute and then you're suddenly skittish as a cornered wildcat."

"You're not imagining that. I'll confess, I have no idea what I am doing. I spend far too much time alone with nothing to do but think. I can't help feeling frightened and ( Read more... )

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We just got back from seeing the movie Marley and Me and I was quite surprised by how much I enjoyed it. We grudgingly agreed to see the movie because it was the one that my son picked out. I mean, come on, how high can your expectations really be when going to see a kid's movie about a dog? Experience has taught me to be wary of any such thing. In ( Read more... )

has the whole world gone fucking crazy? sure seems like it from where i'm sitting. trying to talk my sister through a deep funk in the wake of a failed relationship. best girl going through the same/similar thing. the little girl who works next door (i say little girl, but she's 20) unexpectedly pregnant. she wants to keep it, he wants her to get ( Read more... )

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i'm ashamed to admit that i have utterly ignored the world around me for most of my adult life. i don't read newspapers, never have. i don't watch the news. i have rarely paid much attention at all to current events in the world, or even closer to home for that matter. at least until the past few years. i lived in a world entirely of my own. i ( Read more... )

i am very much intrigued with true-crime novels, serial killers, and forensics. i'm thinking, though, that this may not be the best thing for a highly empathic person such as me. or perhaps that explains some of the reason why i am so fascinated by it. reading the stuff inevitably leads to an examination of my own dark side. or psychological trauma ( Read more... )