George Carlin once said that, “inside every cynical person is a disappointed idealist.” Well, after spending the near entirety of my adult life in The Bush Era, governed by the politics of Dick Cheney and Karl Rove, it should come as no surprise that I have viewed government, and our system as a whole, with…
Category: MSN Spaces
These are the posts that started it all back in the summer of 2005. A girl I’d been chatting with on MSN Messenger said, “I’m thinking about getting a Myspace.”
Smalls attempts to talk politics…
I don’t know how long I’ve been trying to put together my thoughts regarding the upcoming presidential election, but each time I’ve tried has just left me all fired up with nothing to show for it. Nearing my breaking point, I remembered a technique that got me through many an English class back in the…
Not just another day
So this is how it’s going to end?… I thought to myself, the helicopter blades beating their rhythmic cadence all around my lifeless body as the medevac carved its way through the night sky on its way to Harborview Medical Center. Barely able to breathe and slipping in and out of consciousness, I was sure…
…just a phase?
Blink. Blink. Blink. The cursor on your monitor flashes at you expectantly, almost impatiently. Suddenly you are five years old again, and your mom is standing in the doorway with her hands at her hips, tapping her toe like only a late mother can, as you frantically stuff the Lego’s she "told you to start…
Health-Scare
A nurse mentions surgery as my consciousness quickly fades. Most of the next week or so is blurred by a morphine haze. I wake up in a neck brace, and realize I have absolutely no feeling below my armpits. The muscles in my neck are on fire with pain. I have a feeding tube in…
Make your mark
So I was sitting in my hospital room the other day, high on a cocktail of morphine and Ativan (breakfast of champions), when my buddy Big Jim walked in. Yep, you read correct… my hospital room. Around 11 o’clock one Saturday last month, I started to get the chills, but didn’t think much of it. Just…
The best man
It was a warm spring afternoon during the spring of my sophomore year as I wandered in to Hebeler Hall on the southwest corner of Central Washington University. My mission? To apply for acceptance into the Electronics Engineering Technology (EET) major. My motivation? Not exactly academic: I was about to enter my third season of…
Credit where it’s due
I have a confession. I’m not fully responsible for all the content of this blog. Don’t get me wrong, the words are all mine, no one else’s…. it’s just the subject matter I can’t claim as all my own. By now you’ve noticed that most of my stories have some sort of inspiration behind them. My…
I think I want a blog
A friend said that to me a year ago today. Blog… blog… the term seemed vaguely familiar. Where had I heard it before? Weren’t “blogs” those Dutch wooden shoes? No wait, “Blög” was the name of that entertainment center that I saw in the IKEA catalog last week, right? She laughed. When she told me…
Somewhat perturbed
I’m extremely bored and slightly annoyed at the moment. Maybe it’s the fact that I’m completely over-thinking my writing lately, and it would be easier for me to do a back flip than get out a complete thought these days, I don’t know. I find myself wondering if the true reason I’m so frustrated is…
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