in an e-mail i sent to dan:

ok so my brother's basketball coach is being prosecuted (just investigated apparently) for statutory rape right now. he started an affair with a 15 year old student 14 years ago, and when he was caught by his wife then, he promised to stop and it blew over. but she caught him again with the same girl last year, so she's ( Read more... )

this is gonna read self-help book-y. but i feel it needs to be put down because despite the not-exactly-great emotional state i'm in now, i do believe this is probably more than a rant or a rehashed monologue on embracing and exploring the world etc...what i mean is it makes sense to me, at least at this moment ( Read more... )

the trip to osaka was possibly the most spontaneous thing i've ever done. it all happened like a whirlwind, and as impromptu trips go, it could've been much much worse. but in the end, the journey and the rest were irrelevant. i went for the shows, and they were surreal. watching these people whom i didn't know if i'd ever had the chance of seeing ( Read more... )

random russian people, why are you adding me? or the rest of the lj community for that matter? i have absolutely nothing to offer and i can't read your journals because as it happens, i can't speak your language.

too many things to do, shows to go to, people to see, lessons to plan, long walks to take, and shit to remember. not enough time.

it started out with a series of deliberate attempts to withhold from spilling my guts out to an audience whom i suspected was growing weary of the repetitiveness of my pathos; even in a cyber world of unknown faces i was growing increasingly self-conscious. with enough practice of suppressing it, the itch to write shriveled to a size that could be ( Read more... )

it was a shit year, but i am resilient ( Read more... )

IS BRINGING HOME THAT RING IN A FEW WEEKS, IF NOT SOONER


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PETER, since you share a birthday with someone so dazzling:


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i may not randomly burst into song and dance, but the only thing that's waned is my former habitual practice of faithfully documenting insignificant epiphanies and events in my life, not, contrary to popular belief, MY WILL TO LIVE.

obviously some things will stay, but the rest i'm working on to let go, one day at a time. i'm optimistic.