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| Sunday, August 14th, 2005 | | 11:43 pm |
I'm moving...
Hey folks, At the end of the month I am moving. I am not sure where to yet - if anyone has any leads on a place, let me know! (I'm currently in Somerville, and while I like that area a lot, I'm open to other places.) Also, I may have the opportunity to rent a three bedroom house in Lexington (right off Rt. 2, and close to 95/128)... if you know anyone who'd be a good roommate and who's interested, have them get in touch with me. Thanks, Nate | | Tuesday, March 16th, 2004 | | 11:02 am |
| | Monday, March 8th, 2004 | | 11:35 am |
| | Sunday, February 15th, 2004 | | 12:51 am |
rant
Krishnamurti said, "When there is a division between the observer and the observed, there is conflict, but when the observer is the observed there is no control, no suppression. The self comes to an end. Duality comes to an end. Conflict comes to an end." With that said, I will begin my ramble. ( Read more... ) | | Wednesday, February 4th, 2004 | | 12:56 pm |
| | Thursday, January 29th, 2004 | | 10:51 am |
| | Tuesday, January 20th, 2004 | | 6:45 pm |
| | Tuesday, December 30th, 2003 | | 11:38 pm |
| | Monday, November 3rd, 2003 | | 6:10 pm |
| | 3:41 pm |
Moved in
Well, I've got all my stuff at the new place anyway. That's my third move this year, and I better the hell not be moving anytime soon. I'm sick of it. Thanks to all those who helped move, the assistance was invaluable, both physically and emotionally. | | Thursday, September 4th, 2003 | | 10:59 am |
Frienships, relationships, and sex
What happens when a friendship turns into a relationship turns into some weird mixed up thing and one person ends up feeling like the other one isn't there for them the way they're there for the other, or that one is working at the relationship and trying to make it better and the other one doesn't want to do any work at all? It all goes to hell. I can't think of a way to salvage a friendship from it, at least right now. And when the other person just doesn't respect boundaries (boundaries like, let's just be friends), and instead feels the need to keep stepping outside those bounds, well I can't think of what else than just take distance and time away. | | Friday, July 25th, 2003 | | 12:52 pm |
Single life
So I responded to some ads on craigslist a month or so ago, got a couple of followups, ended up corresponding with just one, she kept almost making plans to meet but kept bailing out, until eventually she just didn't respond. I posted a personal ad on craigslist that was long and descriptive, and in a three week period I got two responses total, one right away, another a week or so later. Both times the person writing seemed interesting and someone I'd like to meet, and both times, after I sent one response back, ending with "would you like to get coffee sometime?" I never got an email back. Nothing. I guess that's bad form for me to ask so soon to meet or something... as a guy, I never worry about 'creepy' members of the opposite gender... and as someone who's been online for years and is online all day at work I don't really like IM or email for real conversations anymore, and am anxious to have a face to face conversation with somone or at least hear their voice! Nonetheless, it's kind of surreal... single women are about as real to me as a rare tropical flower I'd see on a nature show or a dragon in a story. I realize I work long hours, don't like to hang out in bars, don't just walk up to a beautiful woman and give her my number, and don't take part in any activities outside work that I have a passion in (right now due to lack of time), all of which greatly decrease my chances of meeting a woman I'd really hit it off with. So I can't really make a case for there being a conspiracy against me yet. | | Thursday, April 3rd, 2003 | | 6:14 pm |
The irony, oh the irony...
(I'm stuck at home with quite a cold today... after being healthy all winter, I guess it was bound to happen.) From the "About" page of the Iraqometer: "Extending the war into Iraq would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq. The coalition would instantly have collapsed, the Arabs deserting in anger and other allies pulling out as well. Exceeding the U.N.'s mandate would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the U.S. could still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land." -- From "Why We Didn't Remove Saddam" by George Bush [Sr.] and Brent Scowcroft, Time Magazine, 1998 | | Tuesday, April 1st, 2003 | | 12:05 am |
All this
I'm disillusioned by everything online. Probably because it all feels like a poor man's kind of (non) human interaction... and I think it all boils down to having a job where I work with 32 guys, none of which enjoy drinks after work, and three women, one of whom has a crush on me which neither of us want her to have, and the other two I don't interact with that much, and none of my good friends live around me, and I'm not making any deep friendships fast at this place. And I'd rather be writing poetry, a book, painting, drawing, or taking photos. But most of all I want good conversations and good friends around me, and I don't have either. Folks are either too busy, too far away, or just not in my life right now. How the fuck does one get out of this? Goddamn... I don't know. Oh yeah, and there's this war 'n shit going on, that's always on my mind of course, I'm sure it's contributing to my general mood. I just saw the movie Human Traffic, an absolutely fab flick, and as the review says, "most of life's key moments are not weighty events, but uproarious weekends spent among friends." And that's a sorely missed aspect of my life. I'm 26, and what the hell am I doing? Working like a dog, with no nightlife to speak of. And if someone can prove to me I'm not wasting my energy sputtering electron-manifested, temporally-disassociated-metaphorical-pi ctograms* across our little bit of the cosmos, prove me wrong. * The letter A was once a picture of an ox, eventually it was turned upside down though and became the letter A. Same with all these characters I now embody my thoughts in. | | Thursday, February 13th, 2003 | | 9:31 am |
| | Sunday, February 2nd, 2003 | | 11:52 pm |
Separated at birth?
So lately I've been wondering if my friend ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) grlee is, fact, the fabled Duke Nukem? Let's compare mug shots, shall we? grlee:  Duke Nukem:  Give the former some shades and a gun, and who wouldn't mistake him for the latter? | | Sunday, January 26th, 2003 | | 7:30 am |
On Slanky
So I recently came across a motley of what I think are unreleased MP3s of M. Doughty's solo work Skittish, and was trying to track down exactly what they were, when I came across this fascinating piece by Doughty on the making of the most excellent "Never Gonna Come Back Down" with BT (match made in heaven baby!), and then I came across this Onion A.V. Club interview with Doughty post-Soul Coughing (sniff, sniff). I am so glad I bought a copy of Slanky when it was still for sale, (check out the poems he put online if you haven't already, I love From a Gas Station Outside Providence). | | 6:45 am |
Dreaming in color
I can't dream in color and see people at the same time... When I dream in color, vivid, phenomenal, coruscating color of magnificent hues, it is beyond this world, and nobody else is in my "field of view" as I'm dreaming. Last week it was a 360 degree sunset on the beach... two nights ago it was a mountain brook teeming with life in a surreal landscape as I paddled through the forest with a large spoon while sitting in the lid of a garbage pail for a boat... tonight, who knows? But the people only come into my field of view when I'm not seeing/experiencing that color... like my brain can't create people and color like that at the same time, and the color I experience is only in the (beyond) natural world... what about everyone else? How do you dream? | | 5:53 am |
Welcome, friends!
Folks who listed me as your friend since the last time I logged in, bonjour! It's exciting to log into livejournal and find that list has grown. :) | | 5:37 am |
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