February 2010
12 posts
Remedies
Last Friday, after some heavy procrastination, I woke up at 4:45AM to finish (or start. Whatever.) a paper due later that morning. Like most days, I drowsily pulled my body upright and rubbed my eyes out a little.
Only… this particular morning was different.
When I reached up to wipe the sleep off of my face, my arm didn’t have to extend as far as it usually does. Both my eyes had...
Chinky
Jamie: Actually, I'm not sure if I'm allowed in public. I woke up yesterday and my eyes were swollen shut, I couldn't see.
Greg: Isn't that normal?
Jamie: For my eyes to be swollen shut?!
Greg: No. For you to not be able to see.
Jamie: ... You're an asshole.
patrickmoberg:
Some of my favorite scenes from movies about loooooove.
Today
My Valentine’s Day:
Fuck bitches.
My Chinese New Year’s Day:
Get money.
Chinese New Year
Today is the eve of Chinese New Year/Lunar New Year/Vietnamese New Year/That Day Where All the Chinky-Eyed Folk Hand Out Red Envelopes Full of Money. Per the request of my father, I went over to my Aunt’s house to have lunch with three of my Dad’s sisters and his brother.
I started attacking the food with my chopsticks but unintentionally faltered when I tried to deliver the food...
Bound to Happen
After 2+ years of pouring my deepest, darkest, most humiliating and hilarious secrets into this blog, the day has arrived.
Mom finally stumbled across it.
Mouth agape by my most recent anecdote, she called me to question my antics and subsequently lecture me about said life choices. I’m sure half her heart was begging that my vomiting was induced by food poisoning. (Sorry, Ma,...
Exposed
My memories from this past Saturday remain in my brain as a series of five freeze frames with no coherent connection between any of them.
I’m lying on someone’s doorstep, curled up in the fetal position, physically unaware of my emerging hypothermia and gravity’s efforts to blanket my body with precipitation.
With eyes closed, I feel myself lifted from the ground by a kind,...