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Thursday, December 10th, 2009
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12:35 pm
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If winter doesn't kill me, I might kill myself for forcing myself to bike through it. Every winter, I get mad at myself all over again for still being here.
Otherwise, everything is (surprisingly) right about where I want it to be, (of course) with the exception of money.
Also, every aspect of health care in this country is a joke. An infuriating one. Like an offensive racial joke directed towards you, repeatedly.
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| Saturday, December 5th, 2009
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3:22 pm
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| Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
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6:12 pm
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Much can be learned from... the movies Brad Pitt has been in.
For the first time in years, I'm actually kind of excited about seeing my family for Thanksgiving. Maybe it's mostly the free meal, and (hopefully) the take-home leftovers. Maybe it's the Packers-Lions game, a free win for the Packers which has really become a wonderful holiday tradition. But, maybe it's that I've been really stressed lately, and my offbeat family may actually provide a little bit of relief. But, I'm sayin', it's mostly the food.
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| Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
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8:08 pm
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I sure hope being crazy pays off, because it really requires a lot of commitment.
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| Thursday, November 19th, 2009
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1:22 pm
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| Monday, November 16th, 2009
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9:38 pm
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"Live like you're dying" is a little off, because some dying people are really incapacitated, which is sad.
But, I feel a strong need to distance myself from people who currently (and historically) waste my time and their own.
On a related note, we're over a year into "recording" our album, which has literally been about 99% waiting, for various reasons. Most of it has had to do with us relying on someone to do the drums, and that person having absolutely no sense of urgency. But, that's by no means been the only holdup.
I know I'm going to be happy with the results, which has helped keep me motivated, but it's really been one of the most frustrating waiting processes I've ever endured, and it hasn't been for lack of attempting to expedite it on my behalf.
The point is, anything like this taking a year is ridiculous. Rome was built in a day, the entire planet and all of its inhabitants took only 6 days to mold out of the cosmos, and we can't make a pop record.
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| Sunday, November 15th, 2009
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9:58 pm
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Money, I need you, like a fat kid needs cake.
(This is a strong need, pop culturally.)
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| Thursday, November 12th, 2009
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12:53 pm
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Must escape retail before holiday season.
Depending on the financial (and any other potential) hurdles, I think I might just take a class or two at UWM this upcoming semester. I feel like it would be a good way to gradually ease back into school without being completely bombarded by it, and it could only possibly be a step in the right direction.
This past year has provided me with a lot of different perspectives that I'd been seeking for a long time, including the renewed understanding of the importance of school. Not school, the institution, or even the education, which is almost an afterthought in the process, but school, the "Only Way". And I haven't found my way around that, as I've been hoping to. Nor have I decided on my path through it, but, much to my dismay, it only increasingly seems to be the tollway to all of the roads I want.
And if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. I think you beat them, eventually, after you've gained their trust and their backs are turned. Bwahaha, fools.
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| Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
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5:06 pm
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| Sunday, November 8th, 2009
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4:07 pm
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| Saturday, October 3rd, 2009
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2:26 am
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Fall air is ripe with change, and that's all I can ask for.
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| Thursday, October 1st, 2009
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3:54 pm
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| Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
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11:13 pm
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Oh, life. You roll, on and on, like dough. You get thinner, but you're going to be such a great pizza.
I've always really liked fall weather, though, this year, it comes after what was already a pretty mild summer, and it obviously always coincides with the demise of the best season. Some years though, it gives summer a nice, gradual, dignified death, if a slow death can ever be dignified. Fall also seems to make girls dress a lot more fashionably European, for whatever reason, which is nice.
In about a month, I'm indulging my New York addiction, and going to back to NYC for a weekend in late October. My urge to go on a trip was getting really high, and I'd been talking about it, so it only made sense in my irresponsible, adventurous logic to pull the trigger. I have a semi-legitimate reason to go (a friend's birthday party), and I found some plane tickets that were just within the budget that I should probably literally have.
I guess I didn't do my homework too well when I went in the past, because these tickets were a lot cheaper than any Amtrak tickets I ever bought. It's going to be weird not having a 24-hour trip there. It's almost going to feel too easy, not having to earn it by enduring an agonizingly long train ride.
I haven't been working too often lately, which financially is a problem, but mentally, really quite nice. I've been okay with having a lot of free days to squeeze out the last remaining drops of summer, and I'll pick up hours as it gets colder.
All things considered, the livin's been easy.
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| Monday, September 14th, 2009
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12:53 am
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| Thursday, September 10th, 2009
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11:03 pm
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If there's a king of prolonged events, I'm, at the very least, a jester in his court.
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| Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
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11:27 pm
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| Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
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12:16 am
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Preceding a substantial update:
If you ever actually hear an album bearing the Paper Holland name, I'm either morbidly unhappy with it, or more proud than I've ever been before.
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| Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
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3:57 pm
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All of the words linger,
Like the conversation of a crowd,
I can feel it in my fingers.
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| Monday, July 27th, 2009
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11:27 pm
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Throw off the past, like hot covers on a summer morning.
Don't make the bed, if you're planning on sleeping again; unless you're trying to keep someone out.
Know that all of it is there, teetering on the edge of some overpopulated island.
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| Thursday, July 16th, 2009
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8:47 pm
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I just can't shake this overwhelming, unexplainable feeling of...
Optimism?
Moving tomorrow, more album mixing on Saturday, and after that...
Anything?
Everything seems to be aligning. With some slight pushing, and shoving, of course. It's been a long time since I've made a (literal) move for the better. This is going to be crazy! Or, even crazier...
Normal!?
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