(Tried to) write more of the novel tonight. Got to the part wherein our hero gets into a barfight with a U.S. Marine over powdered eggs. After the marine nearly kills him, they talk about masculinity in America. I think i've officially run out of ideas ( Read more... )

I have never been this close to being completely broke in my entire life. It is both absolutely and utterly terrifying and a bit invigorating too.

The only bad part is that soon I won't be able to budget day trips outside the city without skimping on groceries.

I am giving myself one more month to turn things around here, or I'm returning home. For me, moving back home now is tantamount to failure, to giving up, but at least i'd be able to salvage at least a bit of my savings. Even with unemployment benefits, all the money I saved over the last year will be wiped out within a few months by rent prices ( Read more... )

( Out )

3 more months.

One of the residents tried to bite my arm the other day. He dug his fingernails into my wrist and started pulling it toward his open mouth. In pulling away, the nails dug into my wrist. Luckily, though I have red marks, it didn't draw blood. I don't think I need a tetanus shot. I will stay away from him.

Increasingly, each morning seems indistinguishable from the one before it. Wake up, stand at the front door of the apartment building anticipating the cold, walk into the cold, scrape off the car, get in the car, go to the CTL, sit in the office, if its a Monday or a Wednesday, make dough at Q's, if its a Tuesday or a Thursday, roam the halls at ( Read more... )

Fever dreams all night again. A talking electric eel that gives birth to milk-puddle ghosts and yearns to be encased in a stone mausoleum on a beach in Southern California. Don’t ask where all that came from. The night before I was stuck in the desert somewhere outside Tangiers and somebody decapitated a native with a broadsword. Intermingled ( Read more... )

Poison Ivy is bullshit. I had no idea how bad it could be 'till I got it.

Poison Ivy is bullshit.

Total downward fucking spiral. Jesus I need a hug.