"On Turning Ten" -Billy Collins

The whole idea of it makes me feel
like I'm coming down with something,
something worse than any stomach ache
or the headaches I get from reading in bad light--
a kind of measles of the spirit,
a mumps of the psyche,
a disfiguring chicken pox of the soul.

You tell me it is too early to be looking back,
but that is ( Read more... )

 I found this over on Somethingawful.com. I just copied and pasted the post here. I tend to not watch videos posted, especially when they are almost 2 hours long.

I watched this one. All the way through.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119024238402033039.html

Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University computer-science professor, was about to give a ( Read more... )

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Just a short update.

Things are getting a bit better. I'm still mostly broke but I'm starting to get caught up a bit. Still stressed. Still not sleeping well. but still pushing the demons back into the hole that they came out of.

I'm not out of the woods yet...but I'm starting to see the clearing. Hopefully things will just keep getting better.

Happy New Year's everyone. Hope it was safe and you had fun ( Read more... )

I only ever wanted him to be happy. both of them. either of them.

I just didn't realize that for either of them to be happy, my heart was going to be broken.

That's fine I guess. I no longer love him. I also no longer hate him. I just don't care anymore. about anything. I go through the motions of my life. I get up, go to work, come home. I have no ( Read more... )

I just spent the last week housesitting for a friend from work.

I swear by all that is holy, I am never going to housesit for anyone. Ever.

Let's see what went wrong:

their computer decided it didn't like me and stopped working.
their bird died

yeah. only 2 things...but I think those 2 things are pretty high on the list. I felt so bad about the ( Read more... )

"I have a weird question to ask you..."

I was woken up with these 8 little words.

8 words that preceded "is it raining in your room?"

...

I had planned on sleeping in this morning. It was not to be. "I have a weird question to ask you...is it raining in your room?" penetrated my foggy brain almost instantly, like caffeine and a smoke generally does. ( Read more... )