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Journal: At the End of Experience
I remember looking out the window of my dad’s apartment on the tenth floor, where I was going to stay for a few months while I looked for a job and an apartment in the city. This was back in 2005 and I would have been 21.
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Journal: In Autumn
I’m pretty sure autumn is a time of reflection for everyone, not just me.
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Journal: I’m only going to say this once.
I’m writing this entry on paper, with my dad’s pen. That might not sound like a terribly interesting fact to open with, but you don’t know how I got his pen yet.
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Journal: Surviving the Apocalypse
It occurred to me that the audience for posts about COVID-19 might be people from the future. Maybe they want to know what it was like to be human, way back when everybody was locked inside, alone, to stop themselves from killing each other.
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Journal: I Had a Heart Attack, or Something.
There were moments where the doctors seemed to imply it might have been something else (particularly, cocaine), but then they’d run another blood test and go oh, shit.
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Journal: How To Drink Water
Maybe today is your great big day off. But what will you do with it? You can’t just watch the telly all day, because even Alex Trebek gets a little stale after a while. Ever since he lost the moustache things haven’t been the same. When was that, 2003?
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Journal: On Unemployment and Public Transit
I never really liked going to work. It seems fine enough at first, but about a month or two into any job I’ve had I’ve come to the conclusion that a month or two is pretty much enough of that.
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Journal: Bird By the Roadside
I came across a dead bird on the side of the road and I thought, hey! There you are, there’s my guy! It was just what I needed.
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Journal: July 15th, 2016
Videos are like pictures, but longer. This is what one day of my life felt like.
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Journal: Softly Open Our Mouths in the Cold
The skylords have decided not to drop any snow this year, but to come right down and gently lay a sheet of ice across the ground. The fog just kind of rolled in and splayed out over the earth until it hardened and stuck there. Lazy and uninspired.