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The Stuff That's Not Interesting But Is The Most Interesting Stuff I'll Write

by ~Octopussy~

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The other day, Sarah asked me to be in the wedding. I couldn’t think of a polite way to decline, besides which I figure how many weddings am I really going to get to be apart of. Maybe I’ll get t...


September 21, 2016

Question And Answer Period

Song that always makes you sad? Something About Us - Daft Punk Last thing you bought? Probably vodka. Last person you argued with? I’ll just put my mother because I don’t think it will have been ...


I was going to add this to the previous entry, but it didn’t seem to fit with the whole theme… Or maybe it did fit and I was just too hellbent on making things seem a little sunnier than they usu...


September 13, 2016

3. Fable (The Man's World Mix)

This weekend ended up being a huge confluence of too many events, both past and future. If you are someone who is not familiar with that irritating bit in parentheses, you have not figured out th...


August 14, 2016

Picking And Choosing

Each time I think I’ve made up my mind on where I’m going between the two choices I’ve given myself, life throws me another curveball and tips the scale toward the other. It’s almost borderline p...


August 02, 2016

Bastion

I was at Starbucks before work getting coffee, it was pretty packed and while I was waiting, I noticed my friend Justin and his boyfriend AJ were in line. Justin is tall and leonine, while AJ is ...


July 29, 2016

Fallout

I’ve been behaving as should be expected. The disappointment of the whole situation in Paris was of course upsetting and I definitely found myself in some expected situations. I mean, of course I...


Well, I got the official response from the French Government: they have withdrawn the offer of employment. So I am not going to Paris. Although I was prepared for this, I’m still extremely disapp...


July 18, 2016

Black & Blue... and Gold

I’m trying to write something less heavy so of course it’s a survey! Senior year in high school… What year did you graduate? 2002 Did you know your spouse? I don’t even know my spouse now! Did yo...


July 17, 2016

Two Lovers

Today is my first day off in 15 days. I got to relax and get a lot done… Until I found this Tumblr page that is just this person putting random people/bands/objects into an image made to look lik...


July 14, 2016

A Private Little War

Last night something very scary happened to me. I decided to go out, I hadn’t been out since my whole schedule turned upside down (see the last entry), but when I went to my usual Wednesday night...


July 13, 2016

Night Work

For the last four days/nights, I’ve been working over night at one job and morning at the other job… which means that I basically inverted my sleeping pattern. It was quite an awful few days. I m...


July 05, 2016

Penumbra

I’ve been spending quite a bit of time with my co-worker, Lio. After work we’ve been grabbing food, sitting on my front porch, being silly and just laughing. The other night was another co-worker...


I just got back from a mini vacation to the Bay Area. A couple of things happened that were… not seismic so much as helpful in breaking me out of my funk. I went with some friends of mine for a s...


June 28, 2016

Merciful

The last few weeks have been incredibly difficult as I try to process and put into context all the events that have happened. Nearly all of them are related to the incident in Orlando. The reacti...


June 03, 2016

New Moon

There’s a very simple reason why I was so active last week, and to explain it makes it seem obvious. I rather like to believe that I’m more complicated and mysterious, but in the end I’m just as ...


May 18, 2016

Keeps Me Hanging On

I still haven’t heard back from the French Consulate. They’re very slow at responding which is incredibly frustrating but very… French. I’ve been spending the whole time making back-up plans as a...


May 10, 2016

God's Garden

I’ve been trying to keep the peace, but it’s rather difficult when things are simmering beneath the surface. I’ve tried to avoid discussing the difficulties I’m coming upon with the job in France...


April 27, 2016

Pyramid

I know I’ve been writing more often during the last couple of weeks but that’s mainly due to the fact that these last several months of instrospection have finally led me somewhere. Plus, recent ...


Yesterday, I got a message from my friend David. I’m sure I went on and on about him while I lived in LA because I was completely in love with him. It was unbelievable. He told me that he found a...


April 12, 2016

Me Versus Me

I’ve been rather ill for the better part of four days. I can’t keep any food down, I try to sleep but just end up vomiting everywhere which means I’m incredibly tired. I believe I’ve lost weight....


April 01, 2016

Speechless

I don’t know what to say. I’ve been agonizing about this for months and the wait is finally over. I’ve heard back regarding the job in France. I’ve been accepted. Not only that, but I’ve been pla...


March 31, 2016

Livewire

I finally got a nice night’s sleep. I think I slept 12 hours, which generally is too much for me, but I’m beginning to think that I really do need more sleep than I used to. I’ve been going out f...


March 29, 2016

The Grey Area

I still haven’t even prepared my remarks for the funeral on Saturday, but I know myself well enough as a public speaker to know that something will come to me the moment I begin the journey to th...


March 27, 2016

Spiral

I’m sorry I haven’t written in quite a long time, but I went a little insane. My other grandfather died just a week and a half after the previous one. Unlike the first one, I was rather close to ...


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