a crackling fireplace in a room with fresh white walls and a vaulted ceiling. crisp sunlight pours into the room, casting grass green and pinky tones through bits of stained glass. i have no obligations, and the simple luxury of the space is indicative of such. i am alone, but i do not feel myself to be. i am at peace and leisure in a moment of ( Read more... )

http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp04212008.shtml

SIGH

Of course, I got a little misty-eyed:

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm

Beautiful.

My car just turned itself off at a stoplight. I'm just grateful fate has been so courteous as to allow that it didn't happen a couple of days ago, when said car was sitting on the tracks before an oncoming train ( Read more... )

So, I've been considering moving back to the Northwest side. Same neighborhood as before, even. Is that what I've been after? A chance to do the whole recent-grad gig over, the way I'd like for it to have gone? It seems as if that might be the case...given that lately, despite their energy (which beats my lethargy all to shit, believe me), I've ( Read more... )

It seems like my particular patch of my neck of the woods is home to quite a few more single men than (any kind of) women.  Which seemed odd and a little depressing until this morning.

I was rocking my car a bit to get it out of its parking spot.  Lookin' forward, lookin' back, when WHOA!  Suddenly, out of nowhere (actually, out of the car ( Read more... )

and I still already love living alone.

Not sure if I'll stay here.  Begged the leasing office to rewrite my lease for 3 months instead of 14, on account of the bass 'n whistle duet the boiler below my unit likes to play into the bedroom all through the night.  (It doesn't roar.  It's more like a pesky fly buzzing around your head, in a scenario ( Read more... )

These are humbling, confusing (and did I mention humbling?) times.  I don't know what I want, but I'm damned sure I want it, and soon, before the round-the-clock queasiness does still more damage to my chances ( Read more... )

I've been trying to figure out whether it's ethical to excerpt this passage that a friend of mine wrote--with or without any more information about him.  I'm stumped though, so I'm just prefacing it here with the declaration that I quote him with the best of intentions.  I like how it's written, and I identify with it quite a lot ( Read more... )