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The last few days have been bizarre at best. I find myself pulling away form all sorts of familiar faces and, strangely, I'm not deeply saddened by it.

lately it seems all everyone wants is a smiling face that will be there when they want it and will do what they want to do. Where's this condescension come from lately? Time spent on your tip-toes dodging angry thoughts isn't really what I'm about and the fact that so many people have just been on my case about what I'm doing doesn't sit well.

That's so uncool.
I'd never confess to that.
Board games are for losers.

I don't really care what people think. I'm am who I am, doing what I do. I miss climbing. I haven't been in ages and am desperately looking forward to my excursions at Smith. It hasn't really been a priority for me lately; not because I don't love it but because every waking moment has been spent doing one of three things studying, visiting my grandmother, or, late at night, writing.

The rock can wait it's cold, hard, and immovable; my family is made of flesh and blood and breakable parts. Sometimes you have to set aside your wants for the needs of those around you.

I do and don't miss people.

I'd rather be by myself doing what I know makes me happy then surrounded by people who look down on me.

Blahhhhhh.

I need some new people.

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man, I love having a dog.

It has no walls.

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I feel like rain fall. Somber, silent, and composed of a million different pieces falling in sync. The gray day. The big puddles that need rain boots to undo their perfection. Some day you live under a moon so full. Other days you lie on your back watching the stars pass you by...

Did you know, I wanted to tell you everything?
Would you believe me if I said I wanted to start from the top of the tallest skyscraper and shout out the truth until it was just you and me in the city and I could tell you my life story.

The real one.

But that was so long ago and, that moment, lost once, will never come again.

I may be smart and brave and hell, I may, at times, even be beautiful -- but I'm the first in line when it comes to running from the past. I'm the first to put my tee-shirt on so you can't see my scars.

I wish I could scream how goddam angry I am about everything that happened in the last two weeks and tell everyone why it hurts so bad. For some reason, I was expecting this to be my renaissance. My great rebirth.

But the skeletons stayed in the closet even after all this moving and now their saggy corpses quietly decompose stinking up the rest of the house.

It's strange.
I'm not an angry person.
But the thoughts that are trying to tip-toe out of this type are making me want to pick my laptop up and throw it at the floor and watch it explode like the time bomb ticking inside me.

[so that's how this feels.]

The truth doesn't set you free; it just lets everyone else see the chains you are wearing.

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sigh.

Untitled.

11:37 AM Edit This 1 Comment »
The pavement always shines
Walking home after a rainstorm
Shards of broken glass glittering
In the glow of the newly risen sun.

From the shore you can see
the waves are slow rolling on the ocean top again
As if time itself has been sedated.

The slow, frantic pace of living
the endless cycle of
Birth and death and rebirth.

Each second so long that

whole histories live and die within it:

You live to watch the world unravel
You dream to stitch it whole again.

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Today was too fair-feather for February. Biked around the city with Tony and Marissa and remembered what it was like to just have fun. It's amazing how a simple thing like a bike ride can change the day around.

I'm trying to plan ahead for once. It has my spinning. I am so bad at making plans and sticking to them.

Right now it looks like this:
2/14-2/28 - Boston, MA
2/28-3/8 - Bend, OR
3/9 - 4/24 Boston, MA
4/25-5/23 ????
5/24-6/20 Thailand
6/21 - 8/9 ???? [Cape Cod? Boston? Alaska? Samoa?]
8/10-12/10 San Jose, Costa Rica

gah!
I love adventuring!

Xander and Mirah

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I'm over 15% of the way to my target goal of 100,000 words for my novel. I actually think it will end up longer than 100,000 words but it's a nice number to shoot for.