If one word could be used to describe my life right now, it's searching ( Read more... )

Desire ( Read more... )

So my lack of anything solid in my life hit me like a sack of bricks last night. In 24 days I will be homeless. My current job is not guaranteed past the time my lease expires. No girlfriend, no crutch of any sort. No idea where I will be in a month, maybe living in the middle of nowhere, WI ( Read more... )

Last night was the J-school graduate student pub crawl. Like the year before, it proved to be an interesting, and inebriating evening.

A friend asked an obvious question that I did not know how to answer. Why have I not dated anyone since moving to Madison. After all, I've been here now for a year and a half. I didn't know how to answer her, ( Read more... )

There is a growing part of me that just wants to be through with school. To have my nights and weekends free to sit and watch a basketball game or play video games with friends without having to worry about what I didn't get done. To be able to leave the job at the job after an eight hour workday and enjoy a good novel or just a mindless movie or ( Read more... )

"Getting there is half the fun." Not sure who said it, but for the most part they were right. In life, we are (or at least damn well should be) moving forward; towards something new, a new skill, job, adventure. I've been working towards my Masters now in one way or another since quitting my corporate whore job in September of 2004. Since then ( Read more... )

It has become easy to get by in life without really trying. Life has become so watered-down that any person can acquire a job, a degree, a mate, and a lifestyle with minimal effort. These have become things that “just happen” to us in the course of life, whereas they were once events that forged our soul and created our character ( Read more... )

The world is an ever changing place; that is a fact. We can see it with the people who surround us; as they change jobs, suffer through hardship, date new people, get married, and start to have kids. We know it changes rapidly, so why does it catch us off guard when these changes happen. One day a women you fantasized about tells you she's ( Read more... )

Why can't the pieces ever fall into place the way they are supposed to ( Read more... )