Had a dream about Carnivale, and it didn't take long for me to get bitterly angry from thinking about how it's not on the air anymore, and only got two seasons. When I read about it, the unpopularity of the show seems to be blamed on the "dense" or "incomprehensible" mythology, but seriously: Lost. Lost's mythos is easily ten times harder to keep ( Read more... )

Ended up not going to the Quaker meeting because stomach pain kept me up last night, and I haven't been getting that much sleep due to morning shifts at work. Called the doctor, but it's the weekend. I sometimes forget other people don't work weekends. And since Quaker meetings apparently involve an hour of sitting in silence, I don't know if I ( Read more... )

It's easy for me to think of Oregon as a place I kinda just wasted three years by putting my life on hold, but I think I don't think I've personally grown as much anytime but these last three years. I think you just have to go through difficult shit in order to understand it. Or at least in order to be able to work through more shit in an optimal ( Read more... )

So the last week or so I've been reading a book called Twentieth Century Ghosts, a collection of short stories by a new up-and-coming author named Joe Hill. I absolutely loved it, and throughout reading it, I kept thinking "Wow, this guy is great! He reminds me of a young Stephen King!" Well, just a few seconds ago I found out that Joe Hill is ( Read more... )

The fact that I'm posting on Facebook more than Livejournal is a little worrying to me. And I do cross-post a lot, but I feel I should do it again concerning this two-person band I've discovered called Pomplamoose. They've done the impossible by making Aerosmith's "Don't Wanna Miss a Thing" actually enjoyable to me:

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Sometimes when I witness people ( Read more... )

Just look at how motherfucking awesome this game looks...

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June 1st! Also, in March FFXIII comes out, along with Red Dead Redemption, AND the new expansion for Dragon Age. I'm fairly certain that I'll be way too distracted to even think about the possibility that I'm wasting my life. It's going to be so fucking awesome ( Read more... )

So Ashley and I set up the contract for our first apartment today. It's in Oregon City (actually a very quaint little town) and is about 10 minutes away from where we live now. This will be kind of like my first real "place," so that's exciting. I may not have internet for the first few days in March, but I think Ashley's going to get it set up ( Read more... )

I've got the nagging feeling that if you consider adding elementary school spelling bee accomplishments into a resumé for college, you haven't accomplished all that much.

I've discovered a really great webcomic called Axe Cop. It's written by a five-year-old and illustrated by his brother. And is great.

To fill you in, Ashley and I didn't end up breaking up. The end of the month is almost here and we only have one potential place to move out to. Since the deadline for admission applications for UT Austin is March 1st, I've been working really hard on my application essays, and now I'm figuring out that I may not be able to go this year because I'm ( Read more... )