Sometimes you have thoughts that are just too emo to share anywhere but your own LiveJournal.

Like the fact that you know there are two certainties in life: you will never know requited love, and your parents will never be proud of you.

There, that's better, you've missed that hole in your chest.

Chalk up another New York Times bestseller for ( Read more... )

When last I updated on my family angst, my mom had implicitly agreed to let me find a wife on my own and my grandmother had determined that God would punish me. Since then, I reluctantly agreed to still look into potential future wives sent on by my parents, even though the whole reason we had that conversation was because I didn't want to do that ( Read more... )

He gives you a hug upon your arrival.

She remembers meeting you last time, and you exchange names again. You tell her to come see your show, but she is already going with him. She talks Looney Tunes with you ( Read more... )

My grandmother just returned from India. My grandmother, who had sent me the blessed locket that I would not pick up. It was her birthday yesterday.

At night, I was playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 when she asked if I would listen to her for a second. "Probably not," I thought, knowing what was coming. She mostly spoke in Gujarati, so I didn ( Read more... )

This is my life.

I can't choose among all my poetically miserable pre-cut bits, so I guess I will refrain. I wish I weren't this neurotic. I wish I could actually believe that something good lies ahead. Oh, whoops, that's not refraining.

( Dexter )

Since I wrote this post last year, I have gone through several potential future wives ( Read more... )

I'M ON A PLANE
I'M ON A PLANE
EVERYBODY LOOK AT ME 'CAUSE I'M POSTING FROM A PLANE

And what will I post about from tens of thousands of feet in the damn sky? Why, my family, of course! Because...they flew on a plane to come to California?

( Snippets and anecdotes about my family's visit )

You have likely never heard of Shades of Ray since it was not released in theatres and instead is available exclusively on Amazon on DemandBut it stars Zachary Levi and Sarah Shahi and Fran Kranz and Bonnie Somerville and also features Rex Lee and Cristine Rose and Lucy Davis, so it is tailor-made for the audience of People Who Read My Journal ( Read more... )

It's a hodgepodge kind of day.

Caprica is in the shop. My brand-new fucking car has a leaky power steering rack that needs to be replaced. And something about a faulty O-ring, which makes me glad my car hasn't exploded. What the fuck, Mazda. At least they gave me a rental car. I'm zipping around in a Jetta ( Read more... )

Things Making My Life Intolerable:

• My co-worker quit, so I've had to take on about half her responsibilities until we find a replacement.
• Plus I have to teach my other co-worker how to do things and get a new co-worker up to speed on how we do things.
• We are a small group of approximately four people, and I am the most experienced in what needs to be ( Read more... )