Friends,
Do you ever look so long at a word that you begin to doubt if the word is a word? When I was a senior in high school I took a test in my zero-hour class. This was a class I was sure was the absolute most useless class ever. It taught the basics of [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Oh Strange Obsessions!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged data-entry, expelliarmus, Harry Potter, obsession, words on May 30, 2009 | 7 Comments »
On an Evening Like This
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged changes, Harry Potter, journaling, lazy evenings, Reading, Wednesday on May 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Friends,
It’s Wednesday. Warm today. Cool tonight. My go-to man for work appeared to be avoiding me on account of the financial troubles keepin’ down the business. So I made plans for tomorrow afternoon for a friend leaving town. Coffee. Midday. Then he texts. He says, “Work, tomorrow.” So I changed my midday coffee to breakfast.
On [...]
On this weekend in LA
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged earthquake, family, fashion, hipsters, home, Hope in the City, Los Angeles, Melrose Trading Post on May 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Friends,
This weekend has been a reversal of last weekend. And I’ll tell you why.
Last weekend I went to Arkansas to see my little sister graduate from college. It had been planned for months; when there, I brooded home and heartbreak; I practiced confidence-building exercises with girls; and I realized I was not made for planes.
This [...]
On Siloam Springs
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged airports, akrasia, Aristotle, Arkansas, California, flight, graduation, home, Jack Kerouac, JBU, KUOA, memories, Poetics, proxy-home, road trips, Siloam Springs on May 12, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Friends,
Yesterday I departed from the Tulsa airport and arrived in Dallas…long enough to switch airplanes. Then to El Paso. Then Phoenix. Then Los Angeles. If you’re a counting lady or gent, then you’ll know that that amounts to 4 take offs and 4 landings. That’s round about 8 pieces of gum and an equal amount [...]
On Anon
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Glengarry on May 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Friends,
So tomorrow I get out of this Angel town. Not for good. That day may come, but it’ll have to wait ’till after either the career or the good Lord take me out. In the meantime I’d like to spend extended time, and those times when I can, back home. If only because it’s got [...]
