Being in a motel room reminds me of him.
I say that like not everything else reminds me of him, and it does. Driving this same highway, eating at this same restaurant reminds me of him. Billboards and Bible stories that carry his name remind me of him. Cars with high mileage, teachers, and anything related […]

In the realm of Things Too Bizarre For Me To Begin To Grasp and Things So Disturbing I Think I Just Entered Into A Pee-wee Herman Movie and Things Guaranteed To Make Me Have Some Seriously Screwed-Up Dreams, I now bring you the only thing to completely satisfy the requirements for all three categories: Green […]

What I told my manager tonight was that I wanted to stab him in the chest with a screwdriver. The statement appeared to disturb the three customers with whom he was sitting at the time, but really, it seemed less severe in context and actually it’s not far from the truth. The truth is my […]

I am officially on my last set of braces. On the eighteenth of this month we’ll order my retainers. Am I ecstatic? In a word, yes.
In related news, I was told by a customer that I have a really great smile (I should have, I said, for as much as it’s costing me), that I’m […]

I scored a new job at an intensive detox unit doing medication management and intervention. I’m also guaranteed a counseling internship and residency, once my certification is complete.
I’m enjoying this victorious moment. Please join in with me.

I am T minus 3 days to graduation and T minus 7 days to Russia.
I’m psyched, and also a little stressed. All the “Things I’m Going To Do As Soon As School’s Out” got shoved to the wayside while I dealt with feeling sick, sick, sick. (I’m only blaming dismarum for part of it. Others […]

So, after several weeks of feeling great health-wise and one day earlier this week of a short-lived migraine, I woke up this morning feeling awful in almost every part of my body, from my head to my neck to my throat to my stomach and then some. So I prayed, took some medicine, slept, and […]

Last night I realized that today is my last day going to class. Thursday is my final final final. Then I’m done with school. Forever, God-willing. How excited am I, on a scale of one to eleven? I’m about a seventy-three. No hyperbole. Praise Jesus.
So anyway, any and all prayers regarding my final on Thursday […]

Hear ye, hear ye. Ol’ dismarum’s 25th birthday is tomorrow. She loves her birthday. In honor of her birthday, I suggest everyone search the interweb for the tackiest, trashiest, or ugliest e-card you can find and send it her way at dismarum (at) teamdaria (dot) com. Really, I mean the tackiest one. And if you […]

In case you’re wondering, the line-up you’re seeing at the top of this page is, from left to right: Mr. Pink (flint), Nice Guy Eddie (nice girl mel), Mr. Blonde (jane), Mr. Orange (dismarum), and Mr. White (kerbey). This is also useful information for flint and nice girl mel, who I’m pretty sure don’t actually […]