philloak

okay, so i take back the earlier post about subcultures. i went to this (surprisingly) local goth dance club last night with some friends and it was more fun than a barrel of monkeys. scary, pvc-clad monkeys.

i was kind of surprised to find myself actually having fun (in a dance club, no less) and not in a smirking, superior way (though i got to...
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wandering around camden town today i couldn't help but wonder why i occasionally go out of my way to meet/fuck members of assorted subcultures (none while be referred to by name here. in fact, 'camden' gives away too much as is). call it my all-consuming cynical streak but it seems to me that it's all just image driven bullshit. i don't see much of a...
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i can already picture myself sitting in a waiting room in NYC in three or four years. i'm there for a job interview, or something similar. the interviewer calls me into his office. he asks me why i think i'd make a good addition to (unnamed publisher). i give him a response that talks about how dynamic and qualified i am and blah blah blah....
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since my computer access is mostly restricted to the lab at the FSU center on great russell street, i'm forced to get my daily porn intake via SG on a public terminal. that problem means that most people here now know me as "the guy with dyed hair who looks at porn in the computer lab". i suppose there's worse.

last night sun and i...
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live and direct from london. got in friday and managed to mess up my visa a bit. seems there's no passport control between ireland and the UK so they may or may not think i left the country last week. at least my passport stamp is good until march. the customs guy's solution: "oh, just fly somewhere and then come back". works for me.

it...
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i leave for dublin in a little less than 12 hours, and it's gonna be hella cool. i'm looking forward to getting away from the states for a few month but i'd be lying if i said i didn't sort of wish i was going back to colgate like normal. i had a pretty good thing going on with my housemates, and it sucks that...
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A. and her family apparently missed a connection on the way home from prague and are stuck in paris. i've begun to suspect that they just congenitally suck at air travel.

i've frittered away two weeks of break thusfar. only two more before i depart for five merciful months away from the republic of jesuslandia for blairistan (a marginal improvement, kind of like if we'd managed to elect 'bill bush' or 'george clinton' as president....and in the latter case dropped da bomb on iraq like it was our job...i am definately not making sense to anyone...
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well, i actually got around to setting my computer back up, in the place once occupied by my parent's nearly decade (!) old dinosaur, and i even got the old modem to work with it, too. their reasoning was that since i was going to london, i wouldn't be needing to move it until next august, so they might as well have one that doesn't...
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last night at school, been a long time in coming. we went berzerk last night and wreaked havoc all over the village proper. the line of the night: "you come into my house, and you stick your ass in the dishwasher!?!".

not sure when my next update will be, so merry xmas now just to be sure.