When I first tried second shift, it killed my social life. Turns out it wasn't the shift, it was the forty hours a week. I tried first and I'm tired of showing up to work a zombie and almost nodding off on the morning drive every day. I start second shift Monday. My hours are 3:30-12:00, Monday through Friday. That means I'll be hideously late for anything on Friday nights and I'm working instead of any hanging out on weekdays that I wasn't really doing in the first place. Also, I can use the newfound midday to scout out Cincy State and take motorcycle classes. I can also run into Jordan and Kyo and god knows who Thursday nights at the Dock.
In other news, I found the Zippo Blu at the Crestview Hills smoke shop, so I don't have to drive to Dayton for one. Yes, that's right. I'm going to throw fifty dollars at a lighter that I will use primarily for cigars. Fortunately, I'll get home at night with nothing to do most nights so I'll have more opportunity to light up. All I have to do now is get an extension cord to reach the table on the patio so I can smoke and chat after work. It'll be grand!
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Now playing on iTunes: Panic At The Disco - Mad As Rabbits
via FoxyTunes
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Sunday, May 25, 2008
You're Not Alone
I can feel the spell breaking. Fucking finally, yeah? I see good moods in the future and less fucking moping. Go me!
You'd think as an empath I'd never have crises of connection. Maybe I was cured in a storm of violence and stress and the little girl's tears marking my shirt. Who knows? I'm just happy about it.
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Now playing on iTunes: Paramore - That's What You Get
via FoxyTunes
You'd think as an empath I'd never have crises of connection. Maybe I was cured in a storm of violence and stress and the little girl's tears marking my shirt. Who knows? I'm just happy about it.
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Now playing on iTunes: Paramore - That's What You Get
via FoxyTunes
Party Blog!
http://fiveawesome.blogspot.com/
I'm not sure who the contributing editors will be, but save this link.
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Now playing on iTunes: Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - La Costa Brava
via FoxyTunes
I'm not sure who the contributing editors will be, but save this link.
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Now playing on iTunes: Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - La Costa Brava
via FoxyTunes
Friday, May 23, 2008
Echo from the Valleys
It's not any one of you. It's everyone and me. Me for my refusal to make plans for myself, the time of year for finals and finding new jobs, my job for sending me to bed early and getting me up at sunrise, and the various boyfriends for whom so many people violate Rule One (Bros Before Hoes, or a gender-corrected equivalent). It is all of this and none of it and I just felt like bitching.
The problem with being a loner is that you can't reverse your whole lifestyle in a second on the occasion you get tired of being alone.
I've grown quite tired of being alone and I can't do shit about it.
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Now playing on iTunes: Panic At The Disco - Northern Downpour
via FoxyTunes
The problem with being a loner is that you can't reverse your whole lifestyle in a second on the occasion you get tired of being alone.
I've grown quite tired of being alone and I can't do shit about it.
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Now playing on iTunes: Panic At The Disco - Northern Downpour
via FoxyTunes
Thursday, May 22, 2008
And the Valleys in Between
There's got to be a reason I feel as though I've been abandoned by the crew that changed me most.
Jimmy and Alicia force their way into my life frequently. Brandon is omnipresent. Where have the rest of you been?
I've been radically altered and forged into something new and vicious and for once caring and I've been left behind.
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Now playing on iTunes: Panic At The Disco - That Green Gentlemen (Things Have Changed)
via FoxyTunes
Jimmy and Alicia force their way into my life frequently. Brandon is omnipresent. Where have the rest of you been?
I've been radically altered and forged into something new and vicious and for once caring and I've been left behind.
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Now playing on iTunes: Panic At The Disco - That Green Gentlemen (Things Have Changed)
via FoxyTunes
Look! Another one!
Been a long time since I got new music, so it's naturally been a long time since the last blog about it.
New albums in the bank:
Panic at the Disco - Pretty. Odd.
The Cure - Greatest Hits
Matchbox Twenty - Exile on Mainstream
If you want any, hit me up!
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Now playing on iTunes: Matchbox Twenty - How Far We've Come
via FoxyTunes
New albums in the bank:
Panic at the Disco - Pretty. Odd.
The Cure - Greatest Hits
Matchbox Twenty - Exile on Mainstream
If you want any, hit me up!
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Now playing on iTunes: Matchbox Twenty - How Far We've Come
via FoxyTunes
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
The Nature of Blogs
"Too much talking these days. Talk talk talk. This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence." - Mr. Wednesday in Neil Gaiman's American Gods
I remember when this fad started. I got one and Nikki already had one and Meagan's was well-established. We thought we'd use them to vent. You spill your soul to the blog because you don't want to spill it to people. Then you realize you're basically telling your friends anyway and you only say half the shit you mean to. I still won't write any of my real problems into mine. The closest I came to that was a few posts when I first started. I think it never really was about having a shoulder to cry on. I think it was never about what you said, but how you said it.
It's not so much venting as revealing the personality you've been hiding. I can see that in any of the blogs I read. I can see Nikki's instability and Brandon's depression and Kaitlin's extreme insecurity and the fact that behind all the drugs and sex and partying, Meagan is just a scared little girl who is desperately clinging to what stability she can find. And in mine I can see less of the arrogant bastard I am in real life and more of the insecure, paranoid, lonely jackass that I am in my own head. It becomes not an expression of your fears or doubts or sob stories so much as an expression of you as you really are. We read and learn. Read about the events and the dreams and the terrors and learn perspectives we never knew were there. It's nice that it turns out this way. As friends grow closer, what they think becomes irrelevant. It's how and why and what makes them tick that we care about. How do I make you happy? Why are you down? What can I do to help?
Blogs were never about venting. They were about growing the whole time.
I remember when this fad started. I got one and Nikki already had one and Meagan's was well-established. We thought we'd use them to vent. You spill your soul to the blog because you don't want to spill it to people. Then you realize you're basically telling your friends anyway and you only say half the shit you mean to. I still won't write any of my real problems into mine. The closest I came to that was a few posts when I first started. I think it never really was about having a shoulder to cry on. I think it was never about what you said, but how you said it.
It's not so much venting as revealing the personality you've been hiding. I can see that in any of the blogs I read. I can see Nikki's instability and Brandon's depression and Kaitlin's extreme insecurity and the fact that behind all the drugs and sex and partying, Meagan is just a scared little girl who is desperately clinging to what stability she can find. And in mine I can see less of the arrogant bastard I am in real life and more of the insecure, paranoid, lonely jackass that I am in my own head. It becomes not an expression of your fears or doubts or sob stories so much as an expression of you as you really are. We read and learn. Read about the events and the dreams and the terrors and learn perspectives we never knew were there. It's nice that it turns out this way. As friends grow closer, what they think becomes irrelevant. It's how and why and what makes them tick that we care about. How do I make you happy? Why are you down? What can I do to help?
Blogs were never about venting. They were about growing the whole time.
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Sweet Satan!
I just got new tires on my VW. Immediately drove from Tire Discounters onto 275, then 471 and around to Pike Street on 75/75S. I passed a truck at 50 inside the sharp curve at the bottom of Park Hills. The damn thing rolls like it's brand new. I'm really glad I threw in the extra money for higher-grade tires that corner better.
When you enjoy driving as much as I do, getting new tires is like trading in your girlfriend for a better model.
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Now playing on iTunes: Coldplay - Speed Of Sound
http://foxytunes.com/artist/coldplay/track/speed+of+sound
When you enjoy driving as much as I do, getting new tires is like trading in your girlfriend for a better model.
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Now playing on iTunes: Coldplay - Speed Of Sound
http://foxytunes.com/artist/coldplay/track/speed+of+sound
Friday, May 16, 2008
Trendy
Seems Brandon has started a trend. Cameron's ten things to do premortem:
-Pilot's license
-Motorcycle license
-Buy a new Audi
-Own a house
-Learn French
-Learn Spanish
-Leave the country
-Leave the continent
-Kill a man
-Take the midnight train going anywhere, spend some time as a hobo (Includes a stop at the annual hobo convention in Britt, Iowa.)
iTunes is working! My library at present is one Metro Station CD, though, so that'll take some fixing.
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Now playing on iTunes: Metro Station - Wish We Were Older
http://foxytunes.com/artist/metro+station/track/wish+we+were+older
-Pilot's license
-Motorcycle license
-Buy a new Audi
-Own a house
-Learn French
-Learn Spanish
-Leave the country
-Leave the continent
-Kill a man
-Take the midnight train going anywhere, spend some time as a hobo (Includes a stop at the annual hobo convention in Britt, Iowa.)
iTunes is working! My library at present is one Metro Station CD, though, so that'll take some fixing.
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Now playing on iTunes: Metro Station - Wish We Were Older
http://foxytunes.com/artist/metro+station/track/wish+we+were+older
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