tinplatedhero

I've been accepted into the I/O Psych Master's program at UMSL as of yesterday.

I spent last night at a martini bar, drinking some delicious concotions with a very beautiful young woman.

Life could be better, but not by much. It would certainly have to involve great hoards of cash falling from the sky.

I should mention just how god damned hot it is when a woman reads excellent literature...

And the storms roll into St. Louis... thick, black clouds hang low in the sky, and lightning ripples from cloud to cloud.

Since I'm waiting on things to come in from work, I think I might just go stand outside to watch (and feel) it roll in.

Ah... storms.

Saturday evening, rain fell from the sky in a swift and powerful, but brief torrent. I'd spent my day with two friends in great pain, helping them through a very difficult point in their lives. As much as their pain was terrible for them, it was almost as painful for me, watching them in the throes of emotional discord, knowing that all I could do...
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I wasn't tagged. . . I just saw that someone else did it and I felt like doing it.

7 things to do before I die:

1. Get my damned Ph.D.
2. Eliminate depression.
3. Actually go on a honeymoon with Renee.
4. Have a social life again.
5. Learn another language to fluency.
6. Figure out what the hell I'd like to have tattooed...
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I hate D.H. Lawrence...

So this is me, curious if anyone actually reads what I write here. If so, I'll continue to do so, otherwise I'll spend more time on my other journal and just use this one to watch skin.

Hmmmm.. I decided to delete some of my old pictures and add some new ones to my pics folder. I don't necessarily have a complex wherein in I believe that I'm ugly, but I will say that I've not always thought of myself as stunning. Putting all of the really good photos of me that I have gotten over the years in one place has...
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I swear that my mind seeks to drive me insane. I have the writing bug, but I can't seem to give it form. I've got at least two stories in my head and a couple of poems, but I can't get them to come out... alas, I should find a drill and see what will come out.

Seek stillness within yourself and outside of yourself, and when you do, a butterfly may alight upon you. If it does, enjoy its presence but don't try to capture it.

My fantasy on my profile is finding the perfect cherry blossom... but is the goal in the completion of the search or in the search itself?