Category journal

all i ever wanted in my life was to be liked. maybe its hard to believe, knowing the person i became, but its true. go back as far as you want, and perhaps by a strange series of misfortunes, all… Continue Reading →

RE: FW: A Christmas Poem its nice to hear from uncle jack, but between cuddly bear hearts, jokes about killing jesse jackson, and the politics of christmas, I’m a little confused 🙂

thought for today: we began by looking at the world around us, and finding it teeming with life, came to consider life itself as commonplace, almost a given. then looking just a little further out into space around us, expecting… Continue Reading →

Only about half the voting age population participated in the 2000 election, and less than half of those voted for the ultra conservative candidate who was ultimately appointed by fiercely partisan justices from his own party. Why is that? The… Continue Reading →

They’ve thrown chaff at us before, and some of us have bought it — from the whiney frank purdue lookalike from the arklatex or the bizarre misanthropic bachelor lawyer, neither of which ever held public office, so much as running… Continue Reading →

today is september 6. last night was a total trip. we went to the local high school football game. the first game in the new $20million dollar stadium. its quite a piece of work. pretty nice, really. but the whole… Continue Reading →

Aleksandra, Marty and I had lunch yesterday. I like them both. It’s pleasant to work with people you respect and who enjoy one another’s company. I’ve been doing a lot of stewing about work, career and stuff, and it was… Continue Reading →