letter to myself: new semester pep-talk

Dear Melissa,
Tomorrow you have your first class of your senior year. Not to put any more pressure on you than your parents and professors and The Universe In General is putting on you, but you need to stick your nose to the fucking grindstone (which is a dumb saying and kind of a disturbing image, [...]

Poetry Monday: More Billy Collins

Feeling a little introspective tonight and not very verbose–good thing it’s Poetry Monday! This is a[nother] poem by Billy Collins. Jesus, you’d think I’d never heard of any other living American poet aside from him. But there’s a reason I use so many of his poems–it’s because I actually read them for leisure because I [...]

what sort of a nut has a shell of this size?

I’m brewing up this big entry about my sense of responsibility and conscientiousness, and how I think my occasional lack thereof causes me the most stress and strife out of any of the myriad issues in my life.
But it’s still percolating–I tried writing about it just now and it just felt wrong. So instead, I [...]

Poetry Monday, lolcat edition

If you read Matt’s blog, you know who Butters is. And, well. If you watch South Park, you also know who Butters is. But this isn’t that Butters I’m talking about. It’s another. But it’s named after the South Park one. And. Um.
Anyway.
If you don’t read Matt’s blog, you really should start. It’s pretty hilarious. [...]

Maybe “The Meloogal Years”

Michelle commented a couple days ago, something to the effect of “you should embrace the fact that you attract awkward moments because…well, you have to, or you’ll want to hurt yourself daily,” and I think she’s right. Sure, I’m socially awkward. But would I be me if I weren’t? If I could manage to get [...]

Re-virginizing

Hello, WordPress World! Whoa. It’s so bright and shiny in here. It smells like New Car. I think I like it.
If you’re following me over from the AIB blog at Blogger, welcome to my New Digs! I’ve been working hard all week to get it all set up for the move. What do you guys [...]

The Big Bloggy Change

Um.
I moved.
Again…!
…Surprise!…?
I’ve been kind of nervous to unveil the Big Change, since I don’t know how it will be taken. Some people, like Matt, I know didn’t want me to move to WordPress. And even as I write this, my last post in the webspace that kept me company over a Seriously Upsetting Time In [...]

The Essence of Blunder

I really need to blog about two things that happened to me while I was at the mall with Matt yesterday that were just so ridiculously Blunderland. These two acts completely sum up my life and why I blog about it:
At White Barn Candle Company, I decided I desperately needed to sample their “Creamy Caramel” [...]

Poetry Monday, Batman Edition

The Dark Knight has recently inspired a fervent obsession with the Batman comics. After reading Batman: Year One, The Killing Joke, The Dark Knight Returns, The Man Who Laughed, The Long Halloween, and countless other comics/graphic novels, I’m now a veritable compendium of facts. Which may or may not be a good thing.
This is the [...]