My New Life
by Zampano
Entries 81
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I Am Incapable Of Synthesizing Depression
First off, I don’t really believe in it. That’s really the Greek influence in my life. We are alive and the other option is being dead. And that by nature of being in the first of those two optio...
I Quit My Job
I quit my job at the Hibachi joint I was serving at part-time. I enjoyed the extra few hundred bucks it afforded me a week, but the overall strain on my psyche was affecting me way too much. In t...
Relationships
I have come across a vlog I am enjoying on FB: Jimmy and Relationships. I honestly really do like what the guy has to say. He has high emotional intelligence which is a gift. Some of his vlogs, h...
Something Broke
I’m feeling a helluva lot better. I woke up this afternoon after working all night and turning in my essay in class this morning. When I woke up I was feeling like a weight was pushing my head do...
Considering Changes
Living in a Football town is a lot like living in a world where Nazis had won WWII. Thug, fascist mentalities running the streets. Muscle and violence become rationale solutions to problems, held...
"Everything You Make Is Beautiful"
As I’ve mentioned before, I was a Chef for a lot of years working to get back into school. I loved what I did for the most part. Working in Hospitality and Hotels had amazing moments. Where I am,...
Abandon Ship!
I woke up this morning feeling amazing. I felt like I did back in my youthful, wild days in my early 20s when feeling good all day was natural(ish). I was Renton again running wild, and lust for ...
Aphids
After I picked up A Scanner Darkly by PKD, I actually did find aphids on my succulent I keep in my restroom. I won’t lie: aphids are a bit smug. They kind of just sit there smugly, and don’t run ...
Old Friends and Remembrances
Recently, I had been going through some of my files, and items from my filing cabinet I threw out instead of moving to my new apartment. I was quite the little photographer at Summer Camps when d...
A Fantastic Day With Mother
I had been growing my own blueberry bushes for some time now. I have no pets (I love animals, and all sorts of them in middle and high school) but I plan on traveling and they are expensive; take...
My Aunt Has Been Laid To Rest
I have peace. She and I were close before. I remember The first time she had cancer. I didn’t want to shave my head With her husband. But, I liked that he did. The cancer came back. But I did...
Bob and Fred Arctar: A Scanner Darkly
Recently, A Scanner Darkly has fallen into my thoughts. Immediately, I went to the bookstore and picked up a copy. There is a moment when Keanu Reaves looks at his perfect life, hits his head in ...
Autumnal Equinox: The Moon Also Rises
It is the summer’s great last heat, It is the fall’s first chill: They meet. –Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt Equinox is derived from two separate Latin terms: Equus meaning equal or even, and Nox mea...
Nightmare at Work #2
I’m actually exceptionally happy in both of my jobs and classes. I am writing about the very minuscule negative portions of my life in this entry and a few prior. I love my job and what I do, but...
A Romantic Conundrum Pt. II
Furthermore, the poor thing thinks she is marrying into a wealthy family… which is slightly true to an extent. I have a large family spanning over most of this side of the US and most of them are...
A Romantic Conundrum
Needless to say, I am an anomaly. My friends and I are what we call Reality Junkies which coincides with being Knowledge Junkies. My closest friends are all well rounded in skills, trades, we are...
O To My Bicycle
In 2015 my car broke down. I had to walk/bike to my jobs to pay off a lot of debt (closer to $20,000 on a bike.) I was in shape already but when it first happened I lived off in the country. It w...
O The Clear Moment
Life is tranquil. Life is good; The moments of sublime. College was of themes movies are made of. There were rocky times, or rapids, - Stretches of serine waters. ...
Marla Singer or O-Lan
The problem at work, Matt, is a 24 year old with a Narcisistic Personality Disorder. The bosses coddle their little bitch boy as he threatens to assault, Henry, the Zen, calm one with his fists i...
A Severe Personality Disorder at Work
I’ve dealt with this a few times before. This kid actually thinks he is me. He has to vicariously live through me. He honestly believes he has the same skill set I do. I’ve dealt with this type ...
This 24 year old got a job at one of my places of business. I’m a business minded man and can work with almost anyone who can pick up a tray. But this one quickly made my shit-list. The first sig...
Old Holmes
As he strolls down an Historic District, - and admires the French and Colonial Architecture, the raised-high roof beams expertly cut, decorative gables and canopies from the 19th century he visit...
The Perks of Getting Older.
God, what a day. I woke up in a state of chaos. All is lost and at the worst timing ever. I really can’t get it together. Everything is foggy and distant. And today is the day everything I’ve wor...
Choose Life
Today I woke up differently. I decided to “do the normal thing” and watch mindless, spirit crushing game-shows, or today’s version: youtube shorts compiled like Tick-Tock. It was rewarding at fir...
A Pheadrus' Ghost Haunting in Biology Class Today
Youth is waisted on the young. Rush rush rush through class O. While Pheadrus’ ghost visited me. I was no longer in the present biology class but I was visiting my former biology classes and lect...
Book Description
Tales of terror, and horror vanishing, clearing, absconding, being ripped out; pulled like weeds, and wiped clean like a dry erase board. My new life, Henry Pu Yi uttered as his Emperor status was stripped away: I’m a simple gardener.