in ATL, waiting for my 4:35pm flight to MCO. wednesday evening i leave for LAX ( Read more... )

last sunday the independent film channel (IFC) aired the bridge, the 2006 movie about people who committed suicide by jumping off the golden gate. coincidentally, on the same day vaughan from mind hacks posted an entry entitled the philosophy of suicide, wherein he promotes the first segment of a two-part discussion on the morality of suicide, a ( Read more... )

three or four years ago, when i was at the lowest point in my life, i formulated two separate plans for committing suicide. both plans are pretty solid and very straightforward. in fact, they're practically foolproof. at the time, i started to accumulate the materials for plan number one. for a couple of reasons (heather and amanda...duh!) i ( Read more... )

it's only tuesday and this week's already in the shitter ( Read more... )

one of the books i'm currently reading* is the diet cure by julia ross ( Read more... )

i started back to the gym this week. my body feels best not simply by getting regular exercise but also by building muscle and/or maintaining a certain muscle mass. i feel weak, like i have no strength, no stamina, which in turn makes me feel (overly) vulnerable, and while i can argue with myself on an intellectual level about that, my efforts in ( Read more... )

i'm in my first fwb relationship since being dumped by the married man. i just got home from my fourth (fifth?) "date" with him. some observations ( Read more... )

1. my sister called me tonight. i guess my mum's been bugging karen to get me to road-trip up to oregon with her to visit, mostly because my mum has stuff that she wants to unload on my sister (and i'm apparently being enlisted to help her haul it home). but, also, there was this not-exactly-spoken plea...something about the two sisters spending ( Read more... )