do i dare

1. Othello; 01/26/09
2. Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief; 01/28/09
3. Handle with Care; 04/08/09
4. The Robber Bride; 06/16/09
5. Dead Until Dark; 06/26/09
6. Living Dead in Dallas; 07/14/09
7. Thinner; 08/13/09
8. Almost French; 10/23/09
9. The Bell Jar; 10/29/09
10. The Divide; 11/01/09
11. Cat's Cradle; 11/05/09
12. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; 11/07/09
13. My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands;11/09/09

I suck rather fantastically at life.

1. The Bermudez Triangle; 1/29/08
2. An Abundance of Katherines; 1/31/08
3. Looking for Alaska; 2/2/08
4. Tithe; 2/5/08
5. Valiant; 2/17/08
6. Ironside; 2/18/08
7. Franny and Zooey; 2/21/08
8. A Great and Terrible Beauty; 3/12/08
9. Change of Heart; 3/21/08
10. Nine Stories; 4/11/08
11. Number the Stars; 5/8/08 (reread)
12. The Princess Bride; 5/15/08
13. Fragile Things; 5/15/08
14. The Great Gatsby; 5/21/08
15. Firestarter; 6/15/08
16. Mercy; 6/28/08
17. Jane Eyre; 7/05/08
18. Breaking Dawn; 8/03/08
19. Eclipse; 8/07/08 (reread)
20. Slightly Settled; 9/05/08
21. When You are Engulfed in Flames; 9/05/08
22. Charlotte Temple; 9/09/08
23. Girls in Pants; 9/11/08
24. Forever in Blue; 9/14/08
25. Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging; 9/16/08 (reread)
26. Little Women; 9/30/08 (reread)
27. Running with Scissors; 10/24/08
28. Magical Thinking; 11/6/08
29. It's OK, I'm Wearing Really Big Knickers; 11/23/08
30. Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas; 11/23/08
31. The Glass Castle; 12/9/08

Go to your calendar and find the first entry for each month in 2008. Post the first sentence of it in your journal, and that's your "Year in Review."

Jan: I worked our company Christmas party last night* because I am one of the only underage losers who works there, and while I did not get to partake in all the drunken revelry, I did manage to make lots and lots o' money off of those partaking in the drunken revelry.

Feb: I went to a party at a gay Republican's apartment last night.

March: I just watched last week's Lost and cried.

April: Opening day at the ballpark today, and I worked the day shift.

May: I am dying of tiredness and loserness and depressedness.

June: I'm not physically dead-- just totally and completely brain dead.

July: For those of you who haven't seen I Am Legend, DON'T because the dog dies and it is complete BULLSHIT.

August: *dusts off livejournal*

October: "Just a Burger?..."

November: Things I've Done This Past Week That Are Made of Awesomesauce:

December: The Be Your Own Pete Wentz Meme:

The Be Your Own Pete Wentz Meme:
Put your MP3 player on shuffle, and write down the first line of the first twenty songs. Post the poem that results. The first line of the twenty-first is the title.

Who's in a Bunker?

Gravity is working against me
Those who are dead are not dead
Where do you go with your broken heart in tow?
I never asked for this

You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life
Cold and drizzly night in Chicago's deep dish
I just want you close
I need love, love to ease my mind

I think we need an agent
When it started we had high hopes
Every day, more wicked
Well, let the geek in the pink take a stab at it

Moving forward using all my breath
I've these dreams
I saw you sliding out the bar
There's a plane and I am flying

I get home from work, and you're still standing in your dressing gown
Have you ever thought about what protects our hearts?
I feel better, I feel better now you've gone.
When I see you sky as a kite

I just voted! Hooray! I have done my civic duty.

Come Tuesday, I plan on either getting drunk in celebration (Obama) or despair (McCain).

Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
- T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

I'm making all of my entries friends-only, not because I am particularly interesting & not because people are flocking to my journal in droves to read about my entirely unfascinating life, but because I write really embarrassing things in here and would like to have at least a general idea of who is mocking my many neuroses, general paranoia, and constant, increasingly ridiculous worries.

So. Yeah. Add me, and I will add you. I'm not picky.