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Tonight I realized that I'm good at something I've decided to dub "adrenaline focus." Case and point: tonight at work, one of our freezers died (again. There have been at least a dozen freezer and/or cooler deaths this year. Those hamsters on wheels who run the dang things apparently get awful tired). It was the end of the night, so, in addition to ( Read more... )

I don't usually mark anniversaries like this, but what the hell --

As of tonight, it will be six years since the last time I shot up or did cocaine. The last time I did heroin was around the same time, but probably a few weeks earlier.

I just got a call from n0thingman, and apparently I'm picking him up in about an hour, so the rest of this update will ( Read more... )

I went swimming again today. Swimming is good, my favorite thing about the summer. I love to be outside, underwater, surrounded by screaming peeing kids (well, OK, so I could do without the peeing part). My shoulders ache, but it's a good ache, and my hands and arms are starting to get that deep, dark farm worker tan ( Read more... )

Many of you may remember that, a few years ago, a friendly acquaintance of mine was murdered. I'd like to say that it was the first time that a friend of mine was murdered, but it wasn't. It wasn't even the second time that someone I knew was murdered.

At any rate, I'm sitting here watching the news, and what should I see, but the news that the ( Read more... )

So I went to Robert's pot luck (Robert, not Rob, lest there be any confusion). I worried my depression would turn me into a party pooper, but I really wanted to be around people. I ate a tiny little bit of (excellent) soup and bread, and promptly ran upstairs and threw it right back up again. BFunk rubbed my shoulders, and let me cry, which was ( Read more... )

Good morning. I just took that stupid 8th grade math thing and passed. I pondered posting it here, but, as I've already seen it no less than three times on my friends page, I figured no one else needed to see it again ( Read more... )

It's late and I should be sleeping (and I suspect I will be soon), but I had a few last lingering thoughts I wanted to share ( Read more... )

I. September 27

September 27th is a lot of things. It's Vince and Rebecca's anniversary. It's Liz Shepard's birthday. It's also Douglas P's birthday. You remember Doug. He's the shit who once told me he would be "all over me if [I wasn't] so fat." I read that line aloud once at a journal reading performance. It got him booed ( Read more... )