1) it is incredibly liberating to be able to tell somebody that you love them. even if groundwork is required to be laid down - "we love each other as really close friends, right? and we both understand what that means" - being able to say to somebody, "i love you", no matter what that might mean (romance, solidarity, a recognition of shared ( Read more... )

2014 found time in its last 45 minutes to throw me one last bone. (hur hur bone). i feel like letting wil wagner tell this one for me:

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'cause last night
i kissed a girl that i met at a bar
which is momentous given how things are
we made out all morning and slept in the afternoon
and she said, "wil bags i think that i can deal with you"

normally, i wait until my birthday to do a year-in-review sort of thing, but i'm going to have to line this one up with the calendar year in the next few days (or weeks - please harass me on facebook if it becomes weeks). because this was a 2002, or a 2006 - this was a year so full of bullshit and fuckups and crap being heaped upon me both by my ( Read more... )

there'll hopefully be a longer update sometime soon. please remind me if i forget; most of you have a couple of other ways of contacting me ( Read more... )

ah, shit. i think i'm having another mental dip.

in the continuing mess that has been my life since march, i haven't had heaps to celebrate. scott's re-election in april, my preselection for hobart city council, not failing one of the assignments i thought i was sure to fail. last night, though, i had a brilliant fucking night, and today, in the bleary hungover haze of a slow rainy sunday shift, ( Read more... )

phone postin': I am this close to taking out a loan from my bank to fly Sam (ex-lj user over for a holiday, because at this point he's maybe the only person on the planet I implicitly trust and also am reasonably sure would put up with my bullshit. convince me not to, or at least to wait until summer/ny winter. please?

man, i'm so fucking lonely ( Read more... )

i will talk more again soon, i promise.

i'm just having the three week busy peak of the busiest period of my life so far.

my downtime is busy ffs.

i love you all and hope you're all doing okay and i'm here to talk to if you want to talk to anyone, i promise.

i was going to write about the election. i really was. i was going to be articulate and passionate and objective and eloquent and all that fantastic shit you guys fucking love from me ( Read more... )