"You're not supposed to hit a guy with glasses." I say, mostly joking. She only meant to tap my arm, but stumbled and fell into me, hard. I will have a bruise in the morning. Fortunately, I don't think I'm sober enough to remember how it got there in the morning. I open the door to the fridge and pull out a bottle of beer, opening it with the ( Read more... )

The blond is back, pressing another rocks glass into my hand, tracing her fingers up my arm. I take more big gulps. My head gets a little fuzzier, my emotions numb. My stomach starts to unclench, my blood flows again. The blond takes my hand and leads me to some vacated chairs. As we walk past, the hostess catches my eye and smiles, giving me a ( Read more... )

Across the party, I watch them. He gently, subtly, tugs on his earlobe. She pulls all her long red hair away from her left ear, draping it over her right shoulder. He leans in and whispers something to her. I don't know what. No one does. They are sharing a secret. We used to share secrets, she and I. Whatever he tells her, it makes her smile. And ( Read more... )

It's egotistical, maybe, but I really like going back through things I wrote and re-reading them. I realized I really need to properly archive some of my writing. I also realized that I have very few "polished" and finished pieces. There comes a point where the editing is very fine-tuned and it's not as obvious where changes need to be made - ( Read more... )

1. Put your iTunes/Ruckus/Napster/etc on shuffle ( Read more... )

I have come into the house from bike riding with Jäger, my newest attempt at bettering both our lives. I get low-impact high-cardio exercise, my dog gets to run. I am standing in the kitchen, talking to my mom and gram. Dad walks by and pokes me in the stomach ( Read more... )

So I started to clean the basement because it's dirty/messy and i filed everything that'd been piling up for the past few months and i came across my essay on how overpopulation will lead to cannibalism and could be halted through government distribution of birth control.

And it was a really good paper for a college sophomore to have written. I ( Read more... )