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Monthly Archives: May 2003

The patience of a chat-program…?

24-May-03

I just realized that it amuses me when trillian keeps trying to reconnect to the chat servers long after the connection to the internet is gone. It just keeps trying… fails… waits 90 seconds… tries again… fails…
And it does this all night long.
Kind of like the fly that keeps beating itself [...]

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*pause*

23-May-03

send a thought my way
can I get you something else?
there’s syrup dripping from my ears
so messy, I can’t think.
this flooded freeway thinks nothing of you
or me.
the cars yell back and forth
and minds bash like bulls.
important impotence
petty like carbon, alone.
we all live
on the surface of blue glass
where the nearest star is too far away.

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writing woo-hoos

10-May-03

It’s a rare and satisfying experience when you can simply switch two paragraphs and discover new meaning, new transitions, and a stronger piece of work altogether.
That’s when the piece writes itself. And makes me think I’ve perhaps got a muse.

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no one else can do my job. really.

02-May-03

How do I make this sound interesting enough for you to read?
half-hour of over-time does not make up for the 8.5 hours of HELL I had to smile through today. Because today was the first really sunny day of the year, naturally my boss called me in to work 2 hours early. Everyone else [...]

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