[I’m a full-grown man but I’m not afraid to cry] Finally, pictures. My room, before: My room, after: My bathroom: And, while I’m at it, my mom and my brother: And my silly nephews:
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[I don’t care what the neighbors say] Mmmmmmm … bored. A whole day off, wasted. Split between sleep, reading, and playing my beloved Sims. + The other day, I finished Kill Two Birds and Get Stoned. I wanted to like it so badly, but just couldn’t. I was grappling with my disappointment so much that I dreamt I encountered the author and “Clyde” and “Fox,” the two main characters. They were old and used-up and…
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[Faith, you’re driving me away] Amber just left. She cruised into town and stayed the night. Now she’s heading the rest of the way to visit her grandparents in Florida. It was good to have her company. I haven’t seen someone I really know in about a week. I came in at 11 p.m. and woke her up so we could go eat at the Purple Onion Grill, which is perfect because there’s a porn…
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[There’s magic in the metal, there’s magic in us all] Tuesday rocked. Work was awesome. I copy edited all night, using a pretty cool system that lets copy editors write headlines, cutlines, jumpheads, jumplines, etc., without even having layout pages open. It’s all configured by the computer and this little applet window lets you write headlines to fit, telling you to the specific point how much extra space you have. Sweet. It was awesome to…
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[Let the handcuffs slip off your wrists] I’m sitting here on this public computer and I just saw that someone printed out the guitar tabs for Air Supply’s “All Out of Love,” but left them lying on the desk. I can’t imagine why. It finally dawned on me that all I needed to do to post photos is upload them to my computer and burn a CD of them, then get on the public computer…
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[There’s nothing but tomorrow to keep us from today] Ahhh, a full day of work. It’s been so long since I put in a cohesive eight-hours-plus-a-lunch-break. Things are going to be fine, if I can learn how to write a decent headline and get over those “do I have the right to edit this???” fears. The pagination system the paper uses seems fairly counter-intuitive, and like it was designed by people who don’t even read…
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[Rain all day and I’ll stay all day with you] I just came from my cousin’s high school graduation in Parsons. Something like 98 percent of their graduating class is going to college. That’s pretty amazing, considering that Parsons residents look at you like you’re a witchdoctor if you show some hint of knowledge that doesn’t involve tuning up a tractor. I don’t think Keri is going to college, though she briefly considered MTSU. Even…
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[My thoughts are misguided, I’m a little naive] I’m lonely and homesick, so I’m coming home.
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[So I’m proposing a swift, orderly change] Originally, I was going to title all my Birmingham blog entries “Summer of Slum,” and assign parts and chapters to each day, week, etc. But I don’t live in the slum, so I can’t do that. Isn’t that a shame? What a waste of a perfectly clever title. Day three is half over. I just now ventured out of my cave to scavenge for nuts and berries and…
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Champagne breakfast for everyone
So I survived my first night. It wasn’t all that bad. The empty bed broke my heart. But I made use of my time wisely, or as wisely as I knew how. I made Amber a CD, and I sketched this really creepy-looking self-portrait. I used my oil pastels in all green and blue-green tones. I look like Frankenstein. A pudgy, long-haired Frankenstein. Today I also went to the tanning bed for the first time…
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