Devastated by betrayal after betrayal, I've also found a lot of golden, virtuous people this week. Its one of those- "people really are good" moments.
I have a festering love for The RocketStar and I hope it will be off the ground soon.

I was really feeling the music around 4am. The jams were eight years old, and had not been heard since except by this employee of the gas station/Buddy's restaraunt. I asked her to please turn it up- I'd been infused w/ glee- perhaps it came from all the reststop food, or perhaps from the sense that I'd just dodged a bullet. I was dancing, ( Read more... )

I've been able to focus fiercely on my t.v. viewing and video game skills recently in a pure, precise way I've never been able to before. Always these hobbies have been heavily polluted with a sense of self destruction or procrastination. The fact that we're developing my dream project (slowly/surely) on the side of these past times allows me to ( Read more... )

how a coffee shop looks after tearing the tanning salon aspects out and before you put in the coffee machine


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Talking to a class of 3rd graders is to talk through a sticky web of interfearance where all of your words and wisdom are caught up on the barbs of incessant tattling. The kids never do anything particuarly bad, but they constantly tell on each other as if they'd just witnessed the crime of the century. And this is how they find meaning, by ( Read more... )

Overnight my home acquired cable, a computer, my old cat, and some internet. I've never had a computer in my home since I've been on Livejournal. Expect frequent and facinating updates ( Read more... )

Last night-knocked down walls, pulled up carpet, pulled nails out of things, listened to hip-hop and ate pizza. There was lots of debate/discussion about which beams were actually holding up our building and about what to do with our floor. Just as the conflict was coming to its pinnacle we discovered ureka- there is a 1930s hardwood floor beneath ( Read more... )

I now have a coffee shop.
We couldn't have dan suffer another blow this week

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The deadline looms: in three days I will talk to the city's council of elders and based on my presentation they will decide the fate or our coffee shop- that is whether or not we will have one. Some local celebrities say that there's no way we'll get the parking variance which would allow us to open; others say of course we'll get it. I refuse to ( Read more... )

This month I've woken up on the couches of Kalamazoo, Detroit and Chicago; I've woken up on the ground, next to a stranger in the deep woods of Canada; I've woken up in Japanese country sides, in Tokyo, on bullet trains and international planes ( Read more... )