Found myself amidst a group of Germans tonight. Oddly enough, playing monopoly. With Sake. Interesting how cultural differences and norms can even surface in a Parker Brothers game. The entire concept of trading is straight forward and organized. Value for value. Huh? Isn't the point to be creative and borderline crafty so as to come out on top? And seeing as we're adults, even to ensure balance is part of it? Where's the fun when one player, through simply a bad run of luck, suffers a...

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Recently I find myself communicating with a stranger. Maybe I startle her with the intensity and fortitude I put into correspondence but I will take what she says at face value - a desire for upfront honesty. Every fault, flaw, untempered thought to be explored to its fullest. I am a person of ideas - not a minute goes by without a hundred different thoughts crossing my mind, all making sense. It's maddening. I have come to appreciate how rare an opportunity it is for two people to connect....

Sucktastic:

* Phil's grandma dying
* stressful travel for the funeral
* friend's father/husband hanging himself
* general rain and gloom
* Kenya eating a sextuple dose of a powerful anti-convulsant intended for a 200lb person
* drama at the dog training club and the trainer throwing in the towel


Fantastic:

* all Chicago U2 tix are in hand
* two MSU U2 tix are on their way
* I get to borrow a little...

My love is in league with the freeway. Its passion will ride, as the cities fly by and, the tail-lights dissolve, in the coming of night. The questions in thousands take flight. My love is miles in the waiting. The eyes that just stare, and the glance at the clock and the secret that burns, and the pain that grows dark and it's you once again. Leading me on - leading me down the road. Driving beyond - driving me down that road.

My love is exceedingly vivid. Red-eyed and fevered...

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Feels like I've had an uneventful life but not really thinking back. Really happy made it 18 years and to be this age at the same time as Achtung Baby even more cooler ha. I'm now legal to drink alcohol. What a great accommplishment . Anyway my 18th year has been a great one. Saw The Killers for the first time,went to Florida, about to go to Dublin for the first time and the big one - seeing U2 for the first time ever amazing and inspiring waited four years for it to happen . And looking back...

My friend has just returned from his second tour in Iraq and I was one of the first to see him

But his wife won't let him in the house or see his baby (that he only got to be with for 2 months on his last time home) because she has been cheating on him and thinks he will hurt her.

Well, she couldn't expect him to be happy about it! And if she would have just kept her mouth shut about it he prob wouldn't have known about it.

So she is staying at...

I appreciate all of the responses I've received off of this site. Today is the last day we're taking responses, so I'm bumping this up as one final hurrah, so to speak. If you have the time and haven't already done so, filling it out would be greatly appreciated.

Ashley

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More insanity. Just when I don't want any, it comes from so many directions. Don't get me wrong, its nice. Given recent events, even welcomed. But this is a time I need to focus inward:

Applab.
Harvard.
Portugal.
Tennis.
Business.
Friends

As my old economics teacher - Mr. Quartermain - used to caution me, women are a distraction. A wonderful, incredible, beautiful, distraction.

Don't I know it....

Special People I've had the fortune to connect with over the years.

Dad
Showed me the importance of being responsible.
Empowered me with a sense of independence. Financially, emotionally, ethically.

Sameer
Showed me the importance of being carefree and reckless.

Minni
Showed me the importance of resilience.

Megha
Showed me the importance of the self.

Cinthya
Showed me the importance of patience....

closure.

Peculiar sentiment. Like most people, I am not immune to doing whatever necessary in achieving it. I suppose the lengths I go to may be bizarre for some but, I strongly believe the only way of having healthy closure is to embrace the deluge of emotions that come at the end of a relationship. You can't run away from such feelings, all you can ever hope is to find ways of living with them. I've recently splayed red across this journal - emotions are all powerful and mustn't...

Saw the boys in Foxboro, good show. I missed the indoor feel, but the songs they played truly knocked me on my arse. Your Blue Room??!!?!?!?! Oh my goooooddddd...

I've been carving you,
To see what form you'd take.
You held me in avarice.
I just wanted to free your shape.

Bringing me down,
its too quiet to breathe
Who wants to hear,
their heart beat?

Oh, it's gotta be here.
In your spider-web alphabets.
Am I reading it wrong?
Or have I just not gotten it yet?

You got what you want.
You wanted release.
Can you be appeased?

Can you bring...

I have a dilemma. I have a mom. She likes to control everything. I also have a wife. She actually at times will describe herself as a control freak.

Then, there are these things like holidays. Usually, this means togetherness and family right? Well, yes...but then my mom wants us to come this day...we can't do that for reasons on this end...I end up having two (wonderful) women getting frustrated at me. So, I try to please one, and then the other gets more upset....and so...