Thursday, November 30, 2006 | by nathan

Dutty South

So provided that we can get through the freezing rain of the winter storm that is seriously fucking with Oklahoma right now, Brian and I are off to Dallas to catch a plane to Atlanta to see my friend Woody. I may have internet access, but my thinking is that the x365 project will be on hold for a few days. Of course, it is entirely possible that we will die trying to drive on the ice. But barring that, I’ll be spending the next few days in the warm south, eating Thai food and talking with Woody. Pictures will be forthcoming.

On The Road, Interweb

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Thursday, November 30, 2006 | by nathan

39 - Bernadette

After I fell through a plate glass window, she held me, helped me breathe while I bled heavily on the sidewalk. I never saw her face.

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Wednesday, November 29, 2006 | by nathan

38 - Ross

Charlotte Pride, he threatened to join if my boyfriend and I started doing it. We did, he did, we did. Only time that happened to me.

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Tuesday, November 28, 2006 | by nathan

What Creativity Looks Like

I’m hung up on this 100-word passage I have to write for work - Boss Lady and I both are. I’ve been playing "I Am Woman" over and over, drinking water, making jokes, but nothing is working. I can’t bake, because I’m at work and we’re not so much with the Kitchenaid here. So, I got really desperate and started taking photos of myself with my iSight camera. Here’s what the writing process looks like. All you non-writers, say a quick prayer of thanks for your lot in life.

Step 2

Photos, Writer

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Tuesday, November 28, 2006 | by nathan

37 - Eoin

Irish guy who climbed glaciers in Scotland. It was him and his friends who taught us Americans something about loving people, not the other way around.

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Monday, November 27, 2006 | by nathan

36 - Eric

The first person I met in seventh grade, we have been friends for 14 years now. Spiritual adviser, freaking genius, his family is like my own.

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Sunday, November 26, 2006 | by nathan

::void::

It’s 5 p.m. on Sunday; Thanksgiving Break is over. It is, for all intents and purposes, quite likely the last one I will ever have.

I cannot tell you how absolutely stoked this fact makes me.

Okay, sure - next year I’m sure I’ll have a day or two off for the holiday, but even if I work in higher education I will never have to refer to something as a "break" again. Sure, I’m giving up spring break and summers this way - maybe - but I’m gaining so much more. I am, for the time being, absolutely sick of being a student. I’m 26 and ready to have a master’s degree. Soon, I will.

Brian and I cleaned the house today. My office, for once, is spotless, which is a little eerie and unsettling; it leaves me waiting for the other shoe to drop, because at once I feel like I am ready to get started on the myriad projects I have due in the coming week, and also that I should take a step out the door and hermetically seal the room, leaving forever in its currently-pristine state.

Thursday morning we take off for Atlanta to visit my good friend Woody. So this will be a short week. Four more days of class and I’m free from the hell that is broadcasting; I asked the director of graduate studies to get me out of there next semester, and he promised to make that a priority. Next semester is my last semester. I am sitting on the edge of freedom, one semester to go, and I am so unbelievably excited I think I might crap my pants.

Oh, yep. There goes.

Skew-wul

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