yep, moving livejournals.
to makeway for adult life or something cliché like that.
muddysneaks

i don't think i can do this anymore, this writing thing.
not so casually, anyhoo.
i'll come up with a project and start anew elsewhere.
when i figure out what and where, i'll link you.

'A Wind Chill Advisory means that very cold air and strong winds will combine to generate wind chills at or less then 20 below zero. This will result in frost bite and lead to hypothermia if precautions are not taken. If you must venture outdoors... dress in layers and cover all skin. Make sure you wear a hat and gloves. Limit outdoor activity to ( Read more... )

Dear God,

It's me. Please let me disappear into productivity for a while. Let the bowels of the library consume me and may I not emerge until triumphant. Also, emerging a few pounds lighter would be nice too.

Your truly,
Alex

I wandered lonely as a Cloud
That floats on high o'er Vales & Hills
When all at once I saw a crowd
A host of dancing Daffodils;
Along the Lake, beneath the trees,
Ten thousand dancing in the breeze.

The waves beside them danced, but they
Outdid the sparkling waves in glee:
A Poet could not but be gay
In such a laughing company:
I gaz'd - and gaz'd - but ( Read more... )

i am now the happy owner of a red ipod nano.
it's name is ringo red and it is so pretty, so shiny.
it greets thee, hajimemashite.
we're in our honeymoon phase so ciao, bellissimos.

i've been to portland, oregon and to the urbana missions conference in st. louis, and not much to say except that g'lord i've got questions.  i do like pine trees, mountains, cities where people read, and good coffee though.

i'm back in chicago and moved into my new apartment with a new roommate.  he's nice- the first roommate to offer me breakfast ( Read more... )

My hometown made it into the NY Times today:

'“Other than New York and Beverly Hills, where else do people go to shop as their profession? Paramus,” said Marshal Cohen, a retail industry analyst at NPD Group, a market research firm."

...explains a lot, I guess.

It is comforting to be in this urban space in which I don't matter at all. I could screw up all I wanted to and nobody would really care. It's such a relief not to matter so much. I feel like here, I could be young ( Read more... )

Can you fear something that you've abstracted to the point of disbelief?

This is perhaps the first year that I haven't cared that Christmas is around the corner. I am growing up and perhaps could write a poem about it, but instead I will go wallow in the sunset in the woods by the duck pond where once I cared so very much about doing good.