The cliche is that you never want it to be you. Because if it's you then that means there's something wrong with you and while undoubtly there is *something* wrong with you, wouldn't you rather it be a mystery? Of course you would ( Read more... )

She is the goddess of the seemingly incidental insult ( Read more... )

 You find yourself in the familiar pattern of ducking things. Procrastinating. Not overly important things, just anything related to the blood within your veins (we may be drunk and thereby overly dramatic). And there's a weakness in this of course, the need to drink when attempting to call the one that brought you into this world. But it's ( Read more... )

Awkward. Awkward and lacking in energy. Or maybe it was excitement that was missing. Maybe it's the same thing. It's one of those joking thoughts that enters everyone's mind, "If I weren't related to this person / these people...would I even be here?" It's an unfair question because let's face it, there are a fuckton places/things you're not. You' ( Read more... )

It's not the most mature tactic but it is the most...convenient. It's a lazy route by the emotionally drained. She says she doesn't care for a large part of your life, you reply that you are aware of this (and remind her that this is not the first time she has made her feelings known) and carry on. She follows up by saying that she only feels this ( Read more... )

She was right. The reasons or motivations for such a mindset are unimportant. Life is often elusive like that, you're just there to diagnose not so much understand, and we are not here to speculate. Suffice to say that she was eternally right and "that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know" or so speaketh the dead white guy ( Read more... )

Mine now involve three laptops with wireless cards.

But fuck, it keeps the peace.

** Update: Help Me, Help Your Family **

So today I tried to break things up. I decided to move my laptop downstairs away from the TV we were all somewhat watching while surfing so there was more of a chance of a conversation. Plus, watching TV and surfing during a family ( Read more... )

Your family, either they talk about everything or they just talk. And you fool yourself into thinking that it is just a family issue but when confronted with those moments...you come up tired. A forced phone conversation with my brother, counting the minutes of dead air with moms. It wasn't a sudden thing, right? It's a prolonged learned reaction, ( Read more... )

At a certain point in history, well, things just went wrong. It's not all that important to pinpoint the exact second our problems started but it is enough to know that whenever my brother spoke and I was about, that I would fall silent. Not the most mature course of action, I know, but it limited the amount of yelling and screaming and repressed ( Read more... )

I got that nervous, excited feeling going on. When you know you're about to do something that could end in total disaster within the next 48 hours of your life. I have to catch a flight out of Boston to Atlanta and then a connection to Savannah.

In theory, I'll have 47 minutes to catch my connection.

The flight I'm taking runs 27 minutes late, on ( Read more... )