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Nov. 10th, 2009 @ 12:18 am Tosca
Current Location: Home
Current Mood: cynicalcynical
Current Music: Matchbox 20 - Push
Act 1.
Escape from a prison of self-creation. Running from everything I know I find a place of salvation. A house of god... a house to hide in.
Hiding in my house I search for a way out, a path to escape.
People are there with me, offer to help, secretly I know I need to be alone in my efforts.

Act 2.
Twist and bend others will and beliefs. Show them their thoughts are not their own and why they should love the way you want them to. Take pleasure in the way you can manipulate them... Then it turns on you, retreat away and hide again, as the mayhem falls around you. Betrayal, and lies. in a cache of volumes something is done which cannot be undone. Something is changed which will never be the same again.

Act 3.
Hear the bells of a timeless age. Reflect on what you once had and what was gone to never be again. Look forward and see nothing through the cloudy mist, only the specters of what once was. Write a letter and hope that for someone salvation will be found. Just like the painting of the Madonna from what now seems a lifetime ago; some things are stuck like the paint on canvas. what was done has been set and will never be undone. Yet you look forward, you see the other come around the corner. Shout your dispassion and take a leap of faith. The life on the other side is a better one than what you have here.

"It is the fear of what comes after the doing that makes the doing hard to do. But you can usually live with the consequences"

Tony Kushner

It's not my quote. and sometimes only the first half really seems to apply. Sometimes there is just so much emotion that there isn't a way to feel it. it comes in waves and there's no reason for it to be there, it just is. The past creeps up and like a wave washes me with a salty brine. I feel carried out by the tide. drowning and suffering in a relentless torrent of salt and water.

I know in the end i will be clean and have a breath. be sitting on a beautiful shore with a sunset and peace. But the calm seems so far off when all you hear is the wind, all you see is the storm, all you feel is the thunder and all you can do is fear what is around you. Even if all that is there is nothing at all.




She said I don't know if I've ever been good enough
I'm a little bit rusty, and I think my head is caving in
And I don't know if I've ever been really loved
By hand that's touched me, well I feel like something's gonna give
And I'm a little bit angry, well

This ain't over, no not here, not while I still need you around
You don't owe me, we might change
Yeah we just might feel good

I wanna push you around, well I will, well I will
I wanna push you down, well I will, well I will
I wanna take you for granted, I wanna take you for granted, yeah I will, I will

Well I will

She said I don't know why you ever would lie to me
Like I'm a little untrusting when I think that the truth is gonna hurt ya
And I don't know why you couldn't just stay with me
You couldn't stand to be near me
When my face don't seem to want to shine
'cuz It's a little bit dirty well

Don't just stand there, say nice things to me
I've been cheated I've been wronged you,
And you don't know me, I can't change
I won't do anything at all

I wanna push you around, well I will, well I will
I wanna push you down, well I will, well I will
I wanna take you for granted, I wanna take you for granted, yeah I will, I will

Oh but don't bowl me over
Just wait a minute well it kinda fell apart, things get so crazy, crazy
Don't rush this baby, don't rush this Baby, baby

I wanna push you around, well I will, well I will
I wanna push you down, well I will, well I will
I wanna take you for granted, yeah, yeah, yeah
I wanna take you, take you, yeah, well I will, I will, I will, I will
I will, I will, I will, Yeah, yeah, push you around,
I'll drag you down, I wanna push you around
Well I will
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Feb. 26th, 2009 @ 12:19 am What is a friend?
Current Location: My Bedroom
Current Mood: morosemorose
Current Music: Clubbed to Death - Rob Dougan
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Really? What is a friend?

Certainly more than just someone you spend time with. There is a connection, a feeling, a trust and a bond.

Friendship is a relationship. It is a part of your life, your heart, and your soul that you invest in another person. It is a hope that through the intertwining of your lives you will build more together than you could alone. There is a love between friends. A love i'm learning more and more is distinct from the love of a romance.

Romantic love tries to intertwine its way into a friendship. the closer and stronger the friendship the easier it is for that romance to build up. However the repercussions of a romance are far deeper and have a much larger impact on your being than anything else.

Friendships don't really ever die. Time, space, Jobs, Stress, anything can come in the way and they may separate but when you go for coffee nothing is really lost. Romance ends with a fury. The heightened emotion takes its toll at the ending and by the time that romance burns out the friendship it was so entwined with is generally left as nothing but ash and cinders as well.

Maybe there's a way to keep them distinct, or a way to end one without crushing the other. However I don't expect to find it. I live my life day by day and include emotion in it. It often hurts and often ends poorly, however even in ending poorly is it really a life if you deny yourself the experiences of living? I agrue it is not.

I don't feel sorry for many of the things that I have done. there are a few, however I believe that I can only judge myself for the knowledge and reference i had at the time the decision was made, and at the end of that there is only one thing in my life i truly regret.

...

There are some people that I terribly miss. Their absences in my life are voids that I don't believe I will ever find a way to repair. Maybe having that abscess is a reminder to enjoy the relationships i do have. Maybe they exist so that I have a constant method of assurance that the drama and pains of existing relationships are worth the debate and heartache?

Or maybe I have done terrible things to people I care about, Maybe there has been so much hurt caused that although i cannot see it the hurt in me exists because the hurt in them is so much greater? Maybe the void exists because when they distanced themselves it was for reasons I do not know, but the repercussions i deserve to feel? I don't have an answer, but i fear this possibility.

Life has such richness in it, so much to offer, so much to take away. The only things which are truly important to me are the people in my life. Take it all away, everything except my family and my friends and I will still survive, take the people i love and care about away, and my house becomes an empty shell, a reminder of what was, the city a forlorn place of remembrance, and life a constant reminder of what i am missing.

.......

Late night ramblings when I've not had enough sleep. . . Sorry for the ramblings, I probably don't deserve to waste your time with my words.
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Feb. 18th, 2009 @ 11:30 pm Uncomfertable feeling
Current Mood: discontentdiscontent
I got that feeling tonight like something really bad is going on.

Don't know what it is, or why, but it's being very persistant.

hrm....
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Jan. 30th, 2009 @ 05:27 pm Drama
Current Location: home
Current Mood: irritatedirritated
Tags: , ,
For as much as she says she hates it she sure does cause a lot of drama...

I'm sick of it. I'm sick of caring about her. I don't care anymore. I feel like I should because of our friendship and the repercussions which will ebb through our mutual friends, but it's this big weight and it feels like it's crushing me...
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Jan. 20th, 2009 @ 10:40 pm A Day for change... and death
Current Location: Bedroom
Current Mood: optimisticoptimistic
Current Music: Zero-sum - Nine Inch Nails
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Wow, what a day. America's first black president.

My big question about it? Why does it matter? In a country where "everyone is equal" we sure do still put a lot of emphasis on the subject of race. I have this point of view from a very young voter, I've never seen an America with separate water fountains, I've never expected a black woman to give up her seat on the bus for me (I thought I was supposed to give it up to her, being a gentleman and all?).

Congratulations to a great man, I hope you will live up to at least most of the expectations we have for you, and you have for yourself. I hope you don't get jaded by the process and can actually get something done in the "old boys club" that is the United States government. If nothing else i think it is a great thing that things will change!

Now, On a much more somber note...

Angela's dog was put down today. She's had "Oreo" for years and years. I guess she was technically her moms dog, but still, that distinction doesn't really exist too much when it's a family pet, or when it's your parents pet even if you don't live at home.

Also a friends bother died the other day as well. I heard about it today even though it happened Sunday. It seems like the older I get the more frequently people I know die. I don't think I really KNOW more people than I did before. I mean the vast majority of people I knew and was friends with in High school i never talk to anymore, so different people have replaced them but the actual number is roughly the same... so i'd expect the death rate to be similar as well. . . at least for a few more decades until we start dropping off at the end of our survivorship curve.

Anyway from my point of view i guess it's just another reminder to be thankful for what you have, live each day for everything that you can. appreciate your friends both when you need a shoulder or happen to be lucky enough to be the shoulder they need.

Oh and happy new year also, Another drop in the bucket another year gone by. Maybe this year something will change for me as well?
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Dec. 13th, 2008 @ 02:16 am Why would anyone want to keep pets?
Current Location: Bedroom
Current Mood: morosemorose
Current Music: Lost in the Humming Air - Harold Bud & Brian Eno
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They are noisy.
They scratch.
They cost quite a bit of money.
They can smell.
They keep you up at night.
They require a lot of time and attention.
They are needy
They constantly need food, water, and cleaning.
And above all else, they die.

Or more to the point tonight, they kill each other.

Jamie got really aggressive when I put her in the cage with the other chilla's so I put her in her own. After a while I put the babies in the large cage.

Yesterday I put the babies back in with Jamie, I thought it would be nice to not be alone for a while... They squeeked, which they always do when they are together... I didn't know they were fighting that much. I got so busy with finals and work, and everything that I wasn't paying enough attention.

Jamie killed one of her babies today.

I was putting them back in the big cage and got one, then was looking for the other... What is that red stuff on the wood i wondered... I saw her tail behind the house Jamie was hiding in, so i moved the house away, and saw not a happy bouncy chilla, but a beaten, bloodied, dead body.

Death has been a theme for the year. This is the 3rd funeral now. These things come in three's however so i hope this is a good sign. This is the first which wasn't brought about by causes beyond any control. In my head I know "it's not my fault" but I could have prevented it, and part of the blame does lie with me for my part in it.

This week I also named the babies. I wasn't going too because i was going to sell them, but after having them so many weeks they had just worked up to having names, They more told me what their names were than I gave them to them. Gadget and Squeek. Gadget like the mouse in Chip n' Dales Rescue Rangers... She is getting into things and climbing walls and jumping around exploring... Squeek because, well, she squeeked a lot. They were both still to young to tell apart by looks, only by behavior. Right now because the one who is alive is behaving very abnormally (no surprise there) I'm not really sure who died, But i do think that it was squeek.

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On the other side of things, Mike and Shay got married today. They had a nice little reception that I almost forgot about and ended up only writing a 3 1/2 page paper for my project instead of a 4 1/2 so I could make it to the reception (Congrats again guys!)

I saw some people from my dept. at school for a bit, it was the pot-luck tonight, we visited for a while, and then I came home... and the rest.. well... is buried in my back yard.



To all those who have gone before us -- I will remember you
To all those yet to come into the world -- I will respect you
To all those yet to leave this life -- You are my sun, moon, and stars
Without you I am nothing, Without you I have no purpose.
Thank you for what you have given me
Thank you for what you have shared
Life is not to be squandered, we only have one,

The best respect I can give for one who has died,
is simply
to live.
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Dec. 1st, 2008 @ 08:52 am Another professor died
Current Location: Work
Current Mood: morosemorose
Current Music: Kind and Generous - Natalie Merchant
I've been a student long enough that I've now had 2 professors die.

The first was over Christmas break, she took her own life. And now Craig Forster... I hadn't had any classes from him yet, just lecture, discussions, and a few e-mail conversations.

It's a sad week for the U, the environmental community, his family and friends, and everyone who knew him.

Goodbye Dr. Forster
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Oct. 20th, 2008 @ 10:05 pm When wishes come true
Current Mood: tiredtired
Current Music: silence... wow...
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things can work so well on paper and so well in your head, but then when it comes to real life, they are just never the same...
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Sep. 29th, 2008 @ 12:21 am Awesome times
Current Mood: goodgood
Current Music: ambiance
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So i've now had 2 dates with this girl Angela. She's really cool. There are a couple of things that i'm iffy about... for one she's quite a bit older than I am, which isn't bad, just kinda odd. there's also a couple of personality things which i'm not sure how they will play out yet. She's really a reserved private person which is odd to me too... she seems fairly open when i'm talking to her, but there's a lot hidden away about her as well, it's amystery.

Anyway, i'm having a great time dating her it's a lot of fun.
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Sep. 18th, 2008 @ 10:28 pm New Babies!
Current Location: bedrooms
Current Mood: happyhappy
Current Music: All My Lovin - Paul Mccartney
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Okay so one (the ebony) is actually 4 and her daughter is 2 already, but still. They're new to me! EXCITING!!!

Need names still, but that's part of the adventure, giving them names :)

They are both fairly social, the white is very social and black is more skittish but that's normal for chilla's.

They are both really new here and are being very shy so i've only got a couple of pictures. Jaeger REALLY doesn't like them (she's so spoiled anyway) I'm seeing major territory issues in the future when they move in together... this is going to be a long slow process...

Anyway, enjoy pics :D







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