dates

12/3 – Thrill Kill in Louisville
12/7 – V
12/8 – Hafla
12/9 – Axis Craft/Game Night (Spoon, 7p)
12/12-12/17 – Seattle (wedding on the 14th)
12/20 –
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12/23-12/28 (tentatively) – Logansport
1/1 – Black tie Axis (my last one. be there.)
1/11 – Going away party
1/17 – start driving

We need another H+ meeting as well, somewhere in there. And game night ever Saturday.

Get your time while you can.

catalytic affect

Most days I love being a catalyst.

Some days it’s crap.

The pounds per inch is pretty high today.

Had an amazing time in Seattle with Libby and Chris. Made new friends, rehashed with old ones, played games, drank (copious amounts of) wine, made food, and lived.

Will tell more about it later, but for now just know that my flight got in at 3a and I had to be to class by 11 with homework to do first.

3 papers and 1 presentation to do and I’m done with my undergraduate degree. How weird is that?!

small reminders

Thank god for small reminders.

I sleep best in white spaces with the sound of trip-hop (or post-rock), rain, and traffic.

Tomorrow is the job hunt. (did you know they have a listing for just lawyers who do science and technology in Seattle?)

Also concerts, games, lots of food and wine. People I love, people I will love, and the possibility of controlling my own life.
See, I’ve always relied on other people to direct my energy. I have so much of it. And I’ve never been good at controlling myself, deciding what to do, if I don’t have others around to be my conscious. This time is done. My passion with focus is renewed (or simply sparked?).

tonight!

Let’s see. A lot has happened. Rebuilt my computer, carved pumpkins, ate food, got roofied, had a “lunch date,” missed the Dali Lama, went to The Mad Scientist’s Ball, finished my resume, cleaned, went to the party at Daniel’s complex thingy, had a stellar meal (perfect pairing of wine, steak, veggies, sauce, and hookah), and organized books at the Spoon. Also lots of homework.

Tonight is Zombie Prom, tomorrow Halloween up at Mutiny, Friday I head up to Chicago to see Stars. Next weekend is Seattle, the weekend after Madison is in town.

Thank god for my PDA.

Road Trip!

So this is the route I think I’ll be taking to Seattle

As of right now, I’m thinking about heading out mid January.
I’ll do the initial drive to Fayetteville in a day, stay two nights. Take two or three days to get to Los Gatos, stopping at National Parks and Pretty Places on my way. Rex and I are hanging out in Los Gatos, and then going to Yuba City. Figure I can take a few days going up the West Coast… spend 2 or 3 days in Portland before I make the last bit of drive up to Seattle. I think a week and a half will do it.

Will also be visiting Chicago for a weekend sometime between now and then – likely the first week of November.

If you want me to visit you, let me know!

It’s been a bit..

..since I read this. It’s nice to have the reminder.

“And you guys just ate it up. Kept buying shitty phones and broken media devices green and dripping with DRM. You broke the site, clogging up the pipe like retarded salmon, to read the latest announcements of the most trivial jerk-off products, completely ignoring the stories about technology actually making a difference to real human beings, because you wanted a new chromed robot turd to put in your pocket to impress your friends and make you forget for just a few minutes, blood coursing as you tremblingly cut through the blister pack, that your life is utterly void of any lasting purpose.”

I’m going to plot out my route to Seattle today. I think I can take a week and a half, go to Chicago and St. Louis and yes even Fayetteville. Up through California and through Portland.

Oh, and today… today the world can fuck itself! Yay!