i don't remember when, but somewhere down the line i became deeply concerned about what others thought of me, to the point at which i became whatever i thought they wanted me to be. and therein my troubles began.

"Most of us aren't living in action movies or thrillers or any kind of hyperbolic state. It's just you communicating with other people. At any moment, we have the choice to blow it off and not go very deep in our thinking or to be honest and reveal more of ourselves. I admire people who cut through the layers of social niceties and get right to ( Read more... )

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"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." - Buckminster Fuller

I'm coming back through the Golden State on my way to Oregon.
I'm so sorry for neglecting our friendships and bonds or not fostering them as I should. One of my 2004 (and life) goals is to rediscover the value of good friends by being one, which I don't think I have been for a few years now.

I'm driving all the way up the state. Can I come visit?

I'm dead tired in the body yet awake mentally after sixteen hours of waiting tables in that inevitable march toward the sufficient support of the rent check standard. My back hurts from running around the restaurant, from stooping to serve, from remebering to stand up straight with shoulders back and work those long gone soft muscles of poor ( Read more... )

Just like that, the ball's in motion and it's all happening right now. Elizabeth and I broke up. I'm going to Portland. I'm out of Atlanta in a few weeks. Just like that it's another drive across country, this time with my cat Isis and an equal if not lesser amount of stuff in tow ( Read more... )

spent ten hours at work today to make a grand total of fifty bucks. work these days is a restaurant called Shilling's, which was once upon a time a Marietta mainstay but now resembles something more like a cockroach and club sandwich cocktail most of the time. people warned me about working there, but such are the breaks of being broke. I need to ( Read more... )