Last night, Tessa sent me an SMS asking me if I was interested in going out. I held my phone in my hand as I looked down at the sleeping baby in my arms and thought, God, I don't think I have the energy! I stalled giving her an answer by asking her what the plans were ( Read more... )

 
I seem to have developed a sudden and severe interest in a bartender at the Biergarten Haus in DC. He is tall, cuddly-looking, German-speaking and soft-spoken - overall, he's adorable, and I friended him on Facebook Wednesday evening.

If I had to be perfectly honest, I think I am fixated on him because of my anxiety for the future. Then again, it ( Read more... )

 
I refuse to get into a critique or any other engagement with this overall frustrating novel at the moment - I am only here to briefly outline the two things that have stuck with me as I come towards the end of it.

The first person whom I found myself laughing with was Kent Lansing. He appears on page 311, and is referenced lightly from then on. His ( Read more... )

 
I woke up with throbbing pain. I felt like an animal was buried, snout-deep, in my heel, gnawing away at the muscles, tendons, and nerves. Heat schmoozed through my foot, and curled around my toes.

I limped upstairs and popped an Encocet that had been prescribed to Kelson. I flopped onto the couch, feeling my stuttering heart and flushed skin. I ( Read more... )

 
Today I had a ganglion cyst removed from my left heel. Mom dropped me off in front of Holy Cross Hospital with a kiss, and I strode through the automatic doors at around 6am.

The lavender gown wrapped around me was too big, and I was aware of every anxious breath that passed through my throat. The nurse (Bonnie) asked an unholy number of questions ( Read more... )

One more day, one less dollar. I sit here with a sweating glass of water and Chris Brown ululating at me from the groaning speakers of my ancient laptop. I'm reading Hit Man: A Manual for Independent Contractors (available here) and trying not to look at my inbox.

Receiving emails has become painful lately. During the semester, I would routinely ( Read more... )

I finished my last final exams yesterday, and now I am facing graduation on Monday... I am getting ready to leave for Botswana for a year, and then the year after that may be spent in Costa Rica. Then the year after that may find me back in Africa, studying at the University of Cape Town for a PhD. There's a good chance that I may not live in the ( Read more... )

This is what happens when you're friends with one of the writers of the school paper, lol.

http://www.retrieverweekly.com/?cmd=displaystory&story_id=6219

Imagine: a series of four drinks. Maybe they would all come together, arranged nicely on a platter or plate (themed ( Read more... )

(Its a rough draft I've been working on over the past day or two. Comments are welcome!)

It wasn’t the first message you sent me

nor the seventh movie we watched together

No, it was somewhere further along the way when I realized that I was

falling more and more in like with you

It wasn’t the first time I saw you play

nor the first time we smoked ( Read more... )