For those of us who are not in relationships and don't have a day to call our own I am instating a new holiday for the relationally deprived and chronically alone. Because we need to begin to change the stigma surrounding the single man or woman on Valentines Day. And the change starts with us.

The first step to becoming Singly Aware is accepting ( Read more... )

"This is going to sound weird, but I think I've finally decided to put this livejournal behind me. My life has changed so much in the past two months that when I look back on my earlier posts I recognize that I am no longer at the same place that I was when I wrote this entire blog (although I still shudder to use the word blog to describe anything ( Read more... )

04/01/2007
Plumber dropped me in the lava.

04/02/2007
Fell in the lava again.

04/03/2007
F***ing lava, man. I'm in it.

P.S.
YouTube video of a baby sloth. Awww!

04/04/2007
Guess where I am.

Hint: Lava.

C.S. Lewis writes;

"God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that He may love and perfect them. He creates the universe, already foreseeing - or should we say “seeing”? there are no tenses in God - the buzzing cloud of flies about the cross, the flayed back pressed against the uneven stake, the nails ( Read more... )

My first phone was an old Cingular I borrowed from my family for the first month or so of college. The phone was turned over to my sister after I received my second phone and still resides in our house unsused but still fondly thought of for it's soothing "Beach" ringtone and no hassle no-flip style ( Read more... )

Recent featured articles of the day.

Shadow of the Colossus.
Avatar: The Last Airbender

I'm not normally a huge proponent of using praise songs as personal prayers, but this seemed to fitting an echo of my sentiments at the moment.

You are the author of knowledge ( Read more... )

A list of songs that are dangerous to my health.

Bowling for Soup - Almost (May lead to emotionally driven away messages.)
Goo Goo Dolls - Iris (Kara has my back on this one, so it's a little safer.)
The Ataris - In This Diary (My senior year was almost destroyed by this song.)
Copeland - Coffee (Linking semi-romantic involvements to songs about ( Read more... )

I'm sitting here, staring at this buzzing electric screen, listening to my single serving coffee maker spit, slurp, and cough up brown filthy water into a mug so I can drink it by myself, sitting here, not writing a five page paper on Shakespeare's Sonnet 119. Oh, the distillation of my thoughts would produce some potion of frustration. Stripped of ( Read more... )

This is a work in progress. I just felt it necessary to write down a little something something ( Read more... )