I'm leaving livejournal.
I don't actually write anything here anymore anyway.  So fuck it.
I'll still be completely and totally active at www.patriotmissive.com, not to mention, I'm on myspace if you can find me.  If you don't know where to find me- shoot me an email at skitzjones@hotmail.com and I'll let you know how to find me, if I even feel like ( Read more... )

I know I haven't blogged in a while- most of my writing itch has been getting scratched over at www.patriotmissive.com but there's something I just wanted to say.
If you're one of those people with tons of "Support" stickers on your car/truck/suv, or where ever else you might feel like pasting one up- fuck your stickers, your ribbons, and you're ( Read more... )

Let me let you in on a few things that have been on my mind for a while now. I think there's a problem with the world. No, seriously now. Things are just kinda fucked up, and not showing signs of getting much better. And I'm not just talking about the middle east- though that is a big part of things on my mind these days, given who I am and what I ( Read more... )

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There's a cricket in my room.  It's been here for 3 nights now, and it keeps me company.  I lay in my bed not sleeping, and it doesn't sleep either.  It chirps.  I sighed once, the other night inbetween it's chirps, and the chirps paused, as if to contemplate the sound of my self-pitying exhale, and then it simply began chirping again.  And that ( Read more... )

Goddamn it!  Look around you.  Open a window, turn off the sitcoms and turn on the news, flip around to all the news stations- every damned last one of them, and disregard half of what they're saying cuz it's bullshit, but then get mad because it's bullshit ( Read more... )

The gov't says time and time again- no draft. The papers let us know month after month that the various branches of the military are not making their quotas for recruitment. The surge in Baghdad, and deployments throughout Iraq have over-taxed units that are already suffering shrinking numbers year after year as contracts come to an end and ( Read more... )

            The never-ending war in Iraq, paired with the regularly ignored war in Afghanistan, which are both part of the completely undefined “War On Terror!”, are years into what is now being touted by General George Casey (Army Chief of Staff) as “decades of persistent conflict”.  Or, to sum up- this shit’s still only just begun.  And while we’ ( Read more... )

I had quite possibly the worst dream I've ever had, and I just woke up from it ten mins ago.  I want to write about it here and now while it's still confronting me, before the distractions of the day erase the details and just leave me with the sence of it.

Every child I saw and treated/transported in Iraq met me face to face last night.  This has ( Read more... )

So, how do I feel today?

In short, I feel awesome.  In fact, I feel so awesome, that if awesome had a twin brother that was twice as awesome as awesome was... I'm THAT kind've awesome.

I'm feeling good about things.  I took a look around, and I'm pretty well content with the way things are going.  The book, the music, friendships rekindling...  Yeah.

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