Today has been a fairly good day. Yesterday was really good, and today is alright. My brother went back to college today and I miss him already. Other friends are starting soon or have already started, and like I said before, I will miss them as well ( Read more... )

1. Four for the NY State Senate for passing the gay marriage bill (which I know isn't the formal title but I can't seem to find the name of it on any of the current news articles), 33 to 29! Sure it'll be at least another thirty days before the bill goes into effect, but I don't think there are enough words to properly express how huge and awesome ( Read more... )

After two failed attempts at writing this thing, it seems that Ean really did win out over his East-coast characters. I managed to write this all in one fell swoop this morning, which kind of surprised me since I haven't done something like that in a long time ( Read more... )

( BF: Wild, Beguile )

( Suicide )

If your injury involves any of the following, contact a doctor:

The cut is deep.
The cut is long. Long cuts are considered to be approximately 1 inch when on the hand or foot and 2 inches when elsewhere on the body.
The cut is jagged.
The injury involved a pet, especially a cat.The injury involved a wild animal ( Read more... )

“'Whence did all that fury come?
From empty tomb or Virgin womb?
Saint Joseph thought the world would melt--'”

“Stop, stop, stop!” Sorrows blanches like he's been presented with some horrible creature. “Where did you hear this--this poetry“From Yeats himself,” I say ( Read more... )

Everything is Better DressedThe little bell above the Bayside Diner door rings with the entrance of two new customers. Largely ignored by the other patrons, Clementine leads Marion to a booth in the far corner, near one of the several televisions hovering over the diner’s long, chrome-and-Formica counter. She sits on one side; he across from her ( Read more... )

The Costs of Starting a ConspiracyTexas. Peeking between white clouds, the summer sun beams down at full intensity, driving everyone with enough sensibility indoors or to the nearest body of water. On the baking stretch of black road, a Rolls Royce with an ouroboros hood ornament speeds through the empty plains. The owner of the car is not driving ( Read more... )

Tomorrow Never Knows What It Doesn't Know
Daylight streams in through the dusty windows, bouncing off the white hospital walls and brightening the dayroom to the point that the staff decides to keep the lights off until dusk. This floor is reserved only for female patients but the variety of disorders could easily fill several pages of the DSM-IV-- ( Read more... )