A friend sent me a message here a while ago. I have just now responded. But being here, looking at my pic (Freakazoid) boy do memories come back. Maybe I will start blogging again. I have been using Facebook notes lately...perhaps I ought to just link this there and return here ( Read more... )

What magic do four year olds posess that seeing them makes you smile, your smile makes them smile, their smile makes you shrug your shoulders, and thier shrugging their shoulders makes your heart melt in to a ball of joy?

--Mary Prankster ( Read more... )

My day thus far has consisted of being told by the docent at the state museuem that I am a very bright young man, watching this is Spinal Tap, being unable to maintain composure in a social situation, balancing my check book, and reading the 36 page brochure for my health insurance coverage. I guess my Uncle wins, I do lead a rather boring life ( Read more... )

I'm insane, you idiot! Remember the other day, when you told me that I had pit stains? Well, I have cried every fifteen minutes on the half-hour since you told me that. I am wracked with self-doubt. I have panic attacks. I'm claustrophobic, germaphobic, phobiaphobic. I talk to myself. I talk to my cat. I talk to three separate shrinks about the ( Read more... )

Two years of National Service netted me a little more than $8,000 towards college or student loans. Entering my third semester, after having just paid for it, I am now down to $3,000. There is a strange nostalgia in it. The two years were not necessarily anything wonderful to hang on to, but in some ways spending this money does feel like the ( Read more... )

...still at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe" --Springsteen ( Read more... )

I'm getting tired of being tired. It really sets things off to a bad start. I think my greatest obstacle right now is motivating my self to live when all I want to do is sleep. This is not to be confused with a melancholy post about depression, I'm quite literally talking about fatigue right now. Everything, even getting to sleep, is harder ( Read more... )

I realize I am not wired by current standards but, I do tend to catch most news stories when they break.  I came across the story of a Danish high school's strip competition via youtube, and I was rather surprised I had not heard about it previously.  The link to the vlog is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBttGIBZmxk

The basic story is that a ( Read more... )

I would like to thank Leanna for deciding to nudge me.  For in doing so one of those "Wow, someone cares" moments occurred.

A lot has happened.  I am choosing to summarize here.

I had surgery on my right eye a little more than a month ago.  My month and a half check up is on Wednesday. I will have to wait and see what the doctor says but my guess is ( Read more... )