I don't really have anything noteworthy to say specifically. I'm more just here cause I should be doing a term paper. But in good news, I got a summer placement at South Mississippi State Hospital, so I'll finally be getting around to doing therapy with schizophrenic inpatients. It's nice when the reasons you've been doing just about everything ( Read more... )

It's suddenly extremely clear to me that I can't escape the very obvious truth that I live by a philosophy of misery loving company. I know no other way. I seek without searching. I find without seeking. I'm lost when I find. I'm ecstatic when I'm lost. I question when I'm ecstatic. I seek when I question. I am the ouroboros. I am all and I ( Read more... )

"Sir, with all due with respect you is making this too hard on us students. We is not going to need this kind of material in life."

A college student wrote me that message on an exam today. Teaching is fun.

I don't think there's anything that I'm not tired of in my life right now. I think at this point my plan is to finish grad school just to prove that it didn't beat me, and then do something else with my life if I still feel this way about the path that I've chosen when that time comes. Either way, it's just in time for the Mayan apocalypse.

1) Did everyone else know that grad school is a lot of fucking work? I think I glossed over that memo before I applied ( Read more... )

What is it about Christmas season that puts everyone at their worst? What is it about vulgar expressions of love (and if you're Christian and wondering, that's not a euphemism for sex) that makes them so cathartic? What is it about being a visitor that makes some people react with fear, rage, hate, indifference, out-grouping, etc.? What is it ( Read more... )

The revolution will continue. The coming years are rife with planning.

To those I've hurt by act, omission, ill will, good intentions, plot, haphazard folly, or by any other means, I'm sorry and I love you.

Cry about change if you must; tears are beautiful.

Never fear change.

There's always something better over the horizon.

If you're in the New Orleans area and reading this, do me a favor: get out while you can!

Fuck this hole.

Happiness ensues..

I can see the orange sky in front of me ( Read more... )