I think about her when I see disasters on the news. I was sitting in the airport watching a piece about the broken water main in Maryland last week, gazing at footage of a deluge stranding cars and the daring helicopter rescues of the passengers. I imagined we were stranded in a life or death situation and how I would have told her that I loved her ( Read more... )

He was a simple man ( Read more... )

I guess it was January when I started picking out trees. I was flying down I-85 in what could have been any season of the year. It was winter of course, though the only reason I could tell was the snowstorm blinding my eyes with white light. For some reason this one stretch of interstate in North Carolina looks the same, day after day, month after ( Read more... )

I'm sitting right next to a window, but my eyes have been stuck to the glowing lap top screen in front of me. I've been scrolling through the rows of craigslist ads, haphazardly sending emails and wondering how much longer I can keep doing it before I finally break and go outside. I'm in DC now, and have been staying at Christina's apartment. She ( Read more... )

So uh, I'm back from the west. I spent a lot of time in Utah and about two months working on a farm in Washington state near the British Columbia border. I actually got bitten by a rattlesnake my last week there, and subsequently airlifted to the hospital in Spokane, where I was pumped full of anti-venom and dilauded. Anyway, I'm in Charlotte ( Read more... )

I have ceased to function in a mental capacity that allows me to operate in normal society. My mad dash through life has has come to a close and now I sit, a metal carcase surrounded by the cogs and springs that fell out a long the way. I'm going to Utah on Friday. Will not have internet or contact with the outside world for awhile. If you want to ( Read more... )

One of these days I'm gonna come back to Williamsburg, the swamp of our forefathers. Does anyone remember how bad Hunter stank up the room when we lived together in the lodge? Geez

I didn't mean not to post all summer, I've even sat down to write several times, but in the end it just feels so forced I hold down the delete key and watch my half-thoughts disappear stage left. I bought some new jeans. They're from Paper Denim, fit me really well. I wear them to the chemical dependency center a lot. The people in my group are ( Read more... )

Does anyone work for a non profit organization, or know someone that I know that works for a non profit organization? I need a favor so I can get off probation,

LUV,

Ben Black, currently part of the probation nation

It's summer so I guess I'm on livejournal again. After leaving Williamsburg on Sunday afternoon, I went to Florida with Christina for a few (Three full days, and two travel days). It was one of the best things I have ever done. She's gone now though, driving into the sunset of post-graduation. I don't know where or what I'm going to be doing next ( Read more... )