Posted in Uncategorized on July 30, 2005 | No Comments »
So I realized late last night, or early this morning, really, that alone is a state of mind.
Perkins may not be the life’s most impressive establishment of learning, but it works for me. I never was much one for traditional learning establishments anyway. Which may be part of the reason that I realized that there [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 28, 2005 | No Comments »
Today as I drove home from an errand, trying to get home in time to put my perfect bread into the oven, I realized that this whole Madison life feels rather unreal. It feels like this is a pretend life . . . a life of make-beleive. I mean, I go home to the smell [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 28, 2005 | No Comments »
So today I discovered that my friends still sometimes feel it necessary to hedge me with their own forms of protection and love. Making sure that some of the last year doesn’t creep in and attack me when I least expect it, making sure that others who care don’t end up saying something they regret. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 26, 2005 | No Comments »
Sorry this will be short. I was home for the weekend with the fam. Didn’t do much.
Don’t really know that I have much to say. We had another letter from the bro in boot camp, he says there’s a Mormon in the bunk next to him and a Jewish guy a few bunks [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 23, 2005 | No Comments »
I didn’t post yesterday at all. Not here, not on my other blog . . . I was busy pondering. Deep thoughts and the blog narcissism we all quickly fall into just really don’t mix. I wrote madly, but the one thing that’s been niggling at the back of my mind just wouldn’t emerge.
I think [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 22, 2005 | No Comments »
So generally, I would say that a night that finds me curled up on my couch with a book that’s a re-read, a can of Cherry Coke, a 1# bag of Skittles, and a bag of Doritos must follow one doozy of bad day. Especially when I’m watching LOTR as I sit and wallow.*
But I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 21, 2005 | No Comments »
So there are a lot of us out here who live in this delusion that we have The Great American Novel (in capital letters, just like that) lurking somewhere in our subconscious, and all we have to do is somehow convince it to leave just a shadow, a corner of itself peeking out and we [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 20, 2005 | No Comments »
If you read this and it spoils your reading of HBP - I warned you!
I just want to state for the record that I really love this book. It really is worth it. There are very few books I have enjoyed this thoroughly. Whatever might be said about J.K. Rowling (and I’ve heard a lot [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 20, 2005 | No Comments »
Driving home today, from my parents, I saw a girl on the horizon, walking along the road. She wasn’t looking where she was going because she was busy, reading the Half-Blood Prince. Everyone is consumed.
I am savoring my copy, because it is so rare that I read a book that I don’t know the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 18, 2005 | No Comments »
Can’t Live, If Living is With Your Mess
(AP) MADISON, Wisconsin - In a notice posted at spider view last week, the tenant of 107 J put forth a demand and a challenge. “NOTICE - The spider living under the bottom drawer must vacate by 7:00am, Sunday, July 17. If spider does not comply, she will [...]
Nakiru is a Karamajong name meaning "rain." My real name was confusing, so to replace it, the old woman looked out from under the hut and observed the coming rain, and named me. "Nakiru." The irony was when they named my sister "Nakolong" - "sunshine."
