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Don’t Leave Home Without It…
Monday, November 17th, 2008 | Uncategorized | 6 Comments
…in which I talk about maturing and leaving behind my “wild” past.
I didn’t have anything close to what you would call a “wild” college experience. You wouldn’t make a movie based off of my years in the dorms. Heck, you’d be hard pressed to make a flashback montage of any genuine interest, but it is what I made of it. But there were highlights and moments of unconventional adventures that do stick out from time to time, many of which I have a memento of one kind or another. Today, I left a part of my history on the bathroom counter and reduced a memento to a memory. › Continue reading
Don’t Leave Home Without It…
Monday, November 17th, 2008 | LiveJournal Archives | No Comments
…in which I talk about maturing and leaving behind my “wild” past.
I didn’t have anything close to what you would call a “wild” college experience. You wouldn’t make a movie based off of my years in the dorms. Heck, you’d be hard pressed to make a flashback montage of any genuine interest, but it is what I made of it. But there were highlights and moments of unconventional adventures that do stick out from time to time, many of which I have a memento of one kind or another. Today, I left a part of my history on the bathroom counter and reduced a memento to a memory.
Fourteen years ago or so, before I’d even met Heather or dreamed of my life as it is now, four of my friends and I piled into my pale yellow 1979 Pontiac Bonneville and headed down to Dallas to visit a very popular tattoo and piercing parlor, Obscurities. Two of my friends were getting navel piercings, another was getting her nose pierced, one was just along for the ride. Not only was I the driver, being that I had the largest car, but I had also decided to get my nipple pierced. To this day, I can’t remember why exactly I had decided to do it, but it wasn’t to impress anyone, and it wasn’t on a whim. I had thought about it for a while and decided that it was something I wanted and when the opportunity arose, decided to grab it by the horns, as it were. Aside from a near mixup of which nipple was supposed to be pierced, everything went well and we all bumped and rumbled home in the car.
I’ve had that nipple piercing now for fourteen years. I’ve had several different pieces of jewelry in it, but its always been there. Heather has never known me without it. Even Ansel has never known me without it, though I don’t know that he’ll ever remember it. Its been something of a novelty; at times a gag, like a circus act; and at others a kind of virility, like a peacock plume; but regardless, its been a part of me. It was my first relic of “alternative” living. It came before alcohol and tattooing. It was a bookmark on my college years, not necessarily a turning point, but a pinpoint on a long evolution from teen to adult.
Removing it permanently was not a decision I came to lightly; in fact, its something that I’ve been debating for weeks now. I’ve had it long enough that it is a part of me, so taking it out and not putting it (or something else) back in is almost like taking off my left pinky and just leaving it behind. Its not something I really use, but can feel that its missing. My final decision came from the fact that its been a little irritated lately; and with Ansel climbing more and more, grabbing on to my chest indiscriminately, its been bothering me more often. I discussed it with Heather a couple of weeks ago when it first started bothering me, and she said that it wouldn’t bother her for it not to be there, even though, as I said, she’s never known me without it.
So now its gone… I could probably replace the jewelry tonight and undo my decision, but I don’t foresee myself doing so. It was something that, since it was under my shirt, obscured from the general public, that was obviously more for myself than everyone else and I’ve been less than happy with it of late. I know that I’ll miss it, and it will take some time to get used to it not being there, but in time, I’m sure I will learn to accept it, and myself without it.
Originally posted at K. Close III
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Today’s Tweets
Sunday, November 16th, 2008 | LiveJournal Archives | No Comments
- 23:41 Trying to decide if I’m gonna stay up a bit longer, or give up and go to bed. I wanna play some more Xbox I think. #
- 08:35 Getting ready for “Date Morning.” Breakfast at LePeep followed by the early showing of Quantum of Solace. #
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Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | LiveJournal Archives | No Comments
- 00:08 Man, it is COLD in this house! #
- 08:41 Yeah, this isn’t even remotely based off of Day of the Dead… And fast, free running zombies Suck! #
- 09:11 Zombies with guns? Seriously? #
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Today’s Tweets
Friday, November 14th, 2008 | LiveJournal Archives | No Comments
- 08:31 I’m sweating from the ride, and then its 72 in my office. #
- 08:39 Unless I am sorely mistaken, I’m getting the NXE EARLY! #
- 08:49 okay, I’ve been kind of down on DreamWorks lately, but this looks like a good one: tinyurl.com/6s2ev2 #
- 09:00 New Watchmen trailer looks really good, reminds me that I need to finish rereading the book. #
- 09:07 Anyone want to blow off some work and play Monty Python Fluxx? #
- 09:20 Was going to skip coffee for raspberry fruit drink… maybe it will be better if its chilled more. Coffee brewing. #
- 09:44 Having a hard time focusing this morning… I need autofocus installed. #
- 10:09 Okay, I’ve been using Evernote for a couple of days and I’m already loving it. www.evernote.com/about/what_is_en #
- 10:19 so apparently no matter what I set the print style to in Entourage, it always prints the same… huge letters and non-duplexed. #
- 10:55 P-Card data done, once again (4991) #
- 10:59 I’m so excited, when I get home I should be able to play with the NXE… can’t wait can’t wait! (#4992) #
- 13:08 great, I’m the driver for this 2 hour train wreck. (#4995) #
- 13:32 Must not fall asleep at the wheel… (#4997) #
- 13:46 For better or worse, I’m not even driving. Its all on autopilot. (#4998) #
- 14:32 Yay, snoozefest is over and I can eat my brownie! (#4999) #
- 14:36 twitpic.com/lrht – Twit 5000! BABY! #
- 17:30 NXE downloaded and installed in 3 minutes. #
- 19:53 Watching Netflix through the NXE… good stuff, nice streamer. #
- 21:54 Installing my first game to the Xbox hard drive. It ain’t fast, but it ain’t slow, either. #
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Today’s Tweets
Thursday, November 13th, 2008 | LiveJournal Archives | No Comments
- 23:35 I fell asleep playing HexicHD. Hopefully I didn’t nap so much that I now can’t get to sleep for reals. #
- 07:46 All of a sudden, I’m seriously in the mood to play a CCG. #
- 10:12 Just tagged, by month, all of ansel’s photos so now I can go back and see what he was like at different ages… #
- 10:37 cold coffee means time for the second cup! #
- 11:28 I’m thinking I need some new self portraits… you know, for userpics and whatnots. #
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Today’s Tweets
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 | LiveJournal Archives | 2 Comments
- 07:45 I was all set to ride my bike this morning, but then a sneeze shot fierce pain though my back and now it hurts just to stand, forget riding. #
- 07:45 Twoosh. #
- 09:32 I’m really hoping my back will relax soon so I can get on with my work day… I actually have lifting to do today. #
- 09:51 is it wrong that during the holidays I want to replace my coffee creamer with eggnog? #
- 10:22 Maybe soon I’ll be able to pick up a computer. :-/ #
- 12:13 wow, this looks really cool: www.evernote.com #
- 12:49 yup… as expected, my peanut butter sandwich has only succeeded in making me want a peanut butter sandwich. #
- 13:02 My internet it poop today. #
- 13:44 what’s really interesting about facebook is when you start seeing people with an unexpected collection of mutual friends. #
- 14:16 “Lets eat carrots together…” #
- 14:50 This is why I don’t like appointments that are scheduled for “whenever.” #
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Today’s Tweets
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 | LiveJournal Archives | No Comments
- 10:20 looks like a nice day today… too bad it was too wet to ride this morning… ah well, I have errands to run anyway. #
- 11:38 And why aren’t general access student computer account granted admin access? Because things get Fucked Up! #
- 12:21 This computer is going to make me miss my lunch! #
- 15:30 In fact its starting to look like this computer is boned three ways from Tuesday. #
- 15:35 text twitters are sorely lagging… #
- 16:08 Be forewarned, I”ve got at least two more twitters in the Queue that I sent from my phone that still haven’t shown up. #
- 16:14 I’m gonna buy a milk shake on the way home, probably. #
- 16:25 I have definitely been in an “addicted to Tool” mood lately. #
- 16:38 Amazon just recommended me an N64. #
- 17:00 Trying to get some last minute work done on this computer. #
- 18:51 Now A&W is gone, too! #
- 18:56 I guess I’ll just have to order the damned trackball. #
- 20:25 Okay, we nixed the 14th for our 007 Date… Who can watch Ansel Sunday morning so we can go to the 11:30am showing of Quantum of Solace? #
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Today’s Tweets
Monday, November 10th, 2008 | LiveJournal Archives | No Comments
- 08:37 Bah, who cares about logical file organization. Fuck it. #
- 08:53 I’m thinking I’m going to burn my NIN to a disk in case I loose it again. #
- 09:07 Only 9 days until NXE! #
- 11:38 I left my install disks at home… now I can either make a new install disk or just wait until tomorrow to run the installs. #
- 11:46 I am currently looking at one of the most beautiful pictures of Heather and Ansel that I have. #
- 11:51 #Blog: We Now Return You To Our Regularly Scheduled Broadcast, Already in Progress… kclose3.com/blog/?p=162 #
- 12:48 Seriously, its not cold enough that you need a PARKA! #
- 13:13 I have been increasingly in the mood for a soda lately. #
- 13:18 Okay, I’m tired of eight hour work days, bring on the six hour work day! #
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We Now Return You To Our Regularly Scheduled Broadcast, Already in Progress…
Monday, November 10th, 2008 | Blogging, Personal Flaws | 10 Comments
…in which I talk about my own current affairs and the regularity of my blogging.
I feel bad because it shouldn’t be all that hard to post one blog a week. Every friday I all of a sudden realize that I haven’t posted anything and that I should write something up “right now” or another week will go by. Then, on Monday, I realize that I’ve missed that week. Maybe I need a weekly blogging night, or something. I frequently have ideas that I want to write about, issues that bother me, thoughts that I ponder; you know, regular blogging topics, but I often forget them before I get a chance to write about them. To this end, I think I’m going to buy myself yet another blank journal and start a blogging notebook… kind of a “writer’s block defense book.” I almost bought one this weekend (for free with a coupon), but they were all so cheap looking I didn’t think they’d hold up to the abuse I was sure to pile on them. I’m low on funds right now, but I may still go out and see what I can find in the bookstore, later. › Continue reading
