I've forgotten what this journal is for. Hm. When i read really old entries, i think about starting a new one because a very new consciousness has evolved. But continuity demands i do not ignore my past, as alien as parts of it seem now ( Read more... )

"A friend who won't respond to what a friend can't ask is like a looking glass in which you cannot see yourself." - Matthew Sharpe

On recommendation from a dear friend, i read Blindness by José Saramago.

It felt ironic to read a book about blindness. At one point i was reading in the sun & when i looked away from the pages, white dots blurred my vision. Creepy.

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i'm losing track of the places i've been. at some point in the last few days, i was introduced to someone. After this person shook my hand, they said, "My! Your hands are so soft" And before i could think of anything else, i said "Yeah, i jerk off a lot ( Read more... )

pg8... Sir Harold, as the patients called him, understood that recovery had as much to do with the mind as the body. Some of the patients at Rooksdown were so disfigured that, even with the best care, they would remain outcasts for the rest of their lives. Such patients had to be encouraged to relearn the art of happiness, which is why Sir ( Read more... )

Howard's End is longer & more tedious than i thought it would be. I've been reading it off & on amongst other works. E.M. Forster has provided my word of the day: treacle. One character threatened to "throw the treacle" at another character so i wrote the word on my thumb & looked it up when i got home. I encourage you to do the same; it's a ( Read more... )

Beginning May 1991, there was a specific mark of pride in my elementary school. It came in the form of a waxy but florescent paper bracelet, the word: Kennywood tagged in its familiar & coveted font. It was a mark that something great had happened, that a story was to be told ( Read more... )

I'm sick & my ear is crusty & throbbing.

I want to rip out my throat & stuff the hole full of leeches soaked in chamomile. I think i may have gotten too into the voice of the narrator of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers. It's been a really easy read, but his images are so violent. Not just because they're descriptive & ( Read more... )

ListenEverything about you ( Read more... )

Went to see ... i don't even know how to begin to explain it ( Read more... )