I watched The Social Network last night with my older bother and his wife. I went to bed wondering about all the Oscars it went home with and dreamed that instead of winning best picture, a movie called "All My Rats" won and someone bombed the Oscars. But that is beside the point ( Read more... )

I guess I think it’s important to keep up with you guys - you do me the service of updating me on your lives without ever actually contacting me, which I enjoy. It enables me to feel like less of an asshole for not calling you as often as maybe I should and I get a better idea of what’s going on than maybe even what you would say were we talking in ( Read more... )

I know you won’t remember how gorgeous August was - now it’s September. Summer hair sticking to summer sweat. Sweet sweet birthdays and clavicles and wood washed houses. Shake that body down ( Read more... )

I don't like to be a downer on Christmas. Never! Oh, I love Christmas. I love Christmas from the moment it starts, generally with the first snow, but also in the first smells of cold and frost creeping in. I love Christmas in the round mugs that fit in your hand, warming it through the mittens your mom made you (or that you bought in the Union ( Read more... )

We are bored. "Boredom," my Grandfather would say, "is the plague of the unintelligent man." In an effort to shake this boredom from our bones we open our computers and search for entertainment. Of late my favorite has been Netflix Watch Instantly because, while my body assumes the position of a bored someone, all slouched, droopy eyes, unmoving - ( Read more... )

recently I've felt all the whelms: under, over, in the middle. but the worst feeling right now is feeling like you're putting all your energy in to something that spits nothing back out at you. i hate the apathy machine.

Candace is drunk and it is 3 in the afternoon. In one hand she holds a champagne glass, no longer full, from Tiffany’s. She decides that she will be keeping the turquoise box forever and has already stashed the silk white ribbon in her pocket when she thanks Catherine Em El for her gift. She remains in her seat - heels do not promote easy walking, ( Read more... )

It is a typical Friday night ( Read more... )

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Tabitha (or Tabatha)
Amelia
Harper
Juliana
Kora
Juliet
Twyla
Olivia

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Aidan
Mathisen
Evan
Oliver