Wednesday, August 29, 2001
So there's this little blurb on the blogger start page about relationships forming through blogs. Is this a revelation? True, the stuff I write scares people away, but is it really surprising that a medium in which people share a bit of themselves attracts like-minded souls on a deeper level? I don't think so...
---posted by bryan 8/29/2001 10:08:34 PM
Tuesday, August 28, 2001
Utne Reader has some articles on friendship this month. They talk about how important it is to exert the effort needed to maintain friendships, and how there are many fringe benefits to doing so. It seems like common sense, on the surface, but I know how easy it is to let people slip out of your life. And I would agree that it is worth it. I've been working on that a lot lately. Sort of as a result of a mini-crisis, but more simply because it is the right thing to do. It's a good thing.
---posted by bryan 8/28/2001 04:07:24 PM
Thursday, August 23, 2001
Figures. Just a little over a week until my closing and the car is having problems. Fate always has little tricks up her sleeve to keep us guessing.
---posted by bryan 8/23/2001 06:39:51 AM
Tuesday, August 21, 2001
poems
---posted by bryan 8/21/2001 07:52:36 PM
Some favorite things: Oberweiss Chocolate-Peanut Butter ice cream, Djarum Black cloves, Kandinsky, Hogue Johannisberg Riesling, low and fluffy clouds, tea-light candles...
---posted by bryan 8/21/2001 07:41:51 AM
Sunday, August 19, 2001
Who is my target audience? I've been asked that. Sometimes, specific people. Other times, whoever; I try to take what is happening in my life and apply it on a larger scale. Maybe I'm looking to validate my thoughts and experiences. Within the community of fellow bloggers, I don't see that as being too different from what most of us do. Maybe I should explain the purpose of each blog a little better. The CD5 blog, for instance; that's more than just what's playing in my CD player on any given day, it's also a way to put the names of bands that don't get much or any radio airplay out there. The Amp Comics blog is a service to my buddy Jim to keep people updated on what's going on with his comic book. And the Techblog is essentially my public service/workplace outlet, since it applies to what I do for a living. As for Vortex, though...the purpose changes often. It's a mood ring, after a fashion. Random some days, a continuous dialogue other days. It's a sliver of my brain that I carve out and leave on display. In that sense, it is a collection of true statements; reflecting, venting, rationalizing...trying to make some sense of the world. Sometimes, it's too much information, or in a form that few would understand. While that may make it less valuable to others, it doesn't to me. So I'll never make it on the list of the blog of the day, because stuff I throw out there is too obscure. So what. If I want to provide a public service, I'll do it through actions, not words in an on-line diary/rant.
---posted by bryan 8/19/2001 10:38:02 PM
Friday, August 17, 2001
Annoyed by rash of thefts at my school. Stuff like that just makes me want to pummel someone. Aside from the fact that it makes more work for me. (I know, i'm whining a little).
Perfection, where are you? Are you in the 100th digit of Pi? Are you in blades of grass? Are you in a long-lost sonnet? Are you in an untapped portion of the mind?
---posted by bryan 8/17/2001 04:39:26 PM
Thursday, August 16, 2001
Hello, little birds walking on the rooftop outside my window.
What an autumn-like day. Wish I had time to go sit by the lake and read obscure poetry. Yeah, I would have been a beatnik in a different life. To do that these days is little more than a fashion statement. The world needs the Kerouacs as much as it needs the Einsteins.
---posted by bryan 8/16/2001 03:51:01 PM
This weekend is just packed. Comic book fans in the Chicago area: Find my friend Jim's booth at Wizard World; he produces Shades of Blue.
---posted by bryan 8/16/2001 01:10:59 AM
"I can hear you singing to me in my sleep." (Semisonic). So the meeting mentioned below went okay. Not spectacular, not awful, somewhere in between. Pretty much as expected, really. Which I suppose is a sort of success. Do I think this is the one for her? I don't know. In this moment in time...yeah, perhaps. A year from now? I don't know...I don't know whether this new guy is everything that my ex needs to be fulfilled. That's not jealousy talking, either; I know where I fell short, meaning I have a sense for what she is looking for. I could be wrong; time may bear me out; we'll see.
---posted by bryan 8/16/2001 12:47:21 AM
Tuesday, August 14, 2001
Get to meet my ex's new boyfriend tonite. That will be interesting. Not that I've never met the new boyfriend of an ex before; comes with the territory of staying friends with exes, right? But I've stayed so close to this woman, more than anyone else, so that makes it a little weird. Ah, well. I'm assuming that nobody will die. Actually, from what I know so far, we might have enough in common (me and the new guy) to be pals. And wouldn't that just take the cake.
---posted by bryan 8/14/2001 04:21:39 PM
Monday, August 13, 2001
So if I try to do things to make other people happy, and am denied the chance, it makes me a little sad. Is that normal? Why can't I stay neutral about it? I must be putting too much into it. Too much of my own state of mind into how others feel. Is that selfish? Can it be both good and bad at the same time? Good in the sense of wanting to do such things in the first place, and bad in the effect it has on me when denied the opportunity? Have to work on counteracting that. Not sure how, though.
---posted by bryan 8/13/2001 10:09:53 PM
The sky is an eerie mix of cloudbanks and sunlight this morning. Listening to the Cure right now, waiting for my turn in the shower. I wonder what oddities today will bring?
---posted by bryan 8/13/2001 06:53:16 AM
