Kyle skis Eldora, thanks to his dad. I’m starting to wonder if I’m sleepwalking through life. the ink inscribed in my ankle had begun to lose meaning, my sleep pattern shifting from late nights and darkness to early mornings and soaking in the few rays of winter. Daily, I arise before dawn, scraping away the [...] Read more »
My heart thrums. The seconds are counting down. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. I know I can do this. I know I can finish before the deadline. My fingers start slapping away. My veins pulse with adrenaline. It’s what I like to call magic time, when the impossible becomes possible and everything works. In an hour [...] Read more »
As some of you may know, I recently started working at the corporate bookseller Barnes and Noble. There was a certain excitement when I got hired. Aesthetically, the store is a great place to work: the music’s not bad, the decor is nice, the dress code is classy, good people work there, and I do [...] Read more »
I, by all accounts, am a slacker. I was a slacker in elementary school, never doing my homework, but helping my friends do theirs. I was a slacker at boarding school, doing just enough so that I could avoid trouble and even gain some privileges reserved for the “good” students. I was a slacker in [...] Read more »
Everyone always questions their priorities. “If I’m concentrating on this, am I neglecting that?” so on and so forth. My personal philosophy is to pick one thing and concentrate on it until either it’s finished or you can’t work on it anymore. It doesn’t matter what. If I’m writing, and a song comes on, I [...] Read more »
It’s strange. My life was constantly changing so drastically and radically that I just wished I had some continuity in it. Now, I have continuity, but I’m unhappy. Of course, all this is moot since I don’t really have continuity at all. Sure, I have a steady job that isn’t going anywhere, and my life [...] Read more »