Many red devils ran from my heart
And out upon the page,
They were so tiny
The pen could mash them.
And many struggled in the ink.
It was strange
To write in this red muck
Of things from my heart.

-Stephen Crane

Life is fully fucking awesome!

The last few days have been great. I started working out again, and I definitely feel more "alive". It's like the Passion Circuit in my emotional circuit breaker box tripped a few years ago, and I never noticed until it got reset. I've also been seriously thinking about getting Kallisti (in Greek letters) tattooed over my heart.

So Spiritfire was... intense... this year. We got there after dark and tried to set up in torrential downpour. Our rain shelter collapsed when we tried to get it up. Our bedding got drenched. We were freezing. At half-past-midnight we decided to shove everything that was still dry in the cab of the pickup and find a hotel for the night ( Read more... )

I am leaving for Spiritfire in 4 days and have done no packing or preparing. I also have no days off between then and now ( Read more... )

Screw Christmas, everyone wants to kill themselves on the 4th of July.

This is my last week of working 2 jobs. Tomorrow I am pulling a double. 7:30-2 in Greenfield, then 3-11 in Westfield. Starting next week I will actually have 2 days off in a week. Very nice.

When you make a choice to take up space, you will invariably be hated by those who are afraid of their own power.

"Short of changing human nature, therefore, the only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war. "

-Richard M. Nixon

So I have to confess to being a closet Eminem fan. The new album "Relapse" came out yesterday. I think the thing that stands out most about the album is the track "Insane" in which he describes in disturbingly graphic detail being sexually abused by his step father. I'm still not sure how to feel about this. I find it highly unlikely that in the ( Read more... )