tangled in interwebs

my connection grasp of the internet is so tentative that it's as if i don't have it at all. listening to horrible, soul-sucking radio in my bedroom that zzzs in and out of tuning. unbearably archaic.

potential recovery of my own computer looking very bleak.

my brother says this is a good opportunity to buy a new laptop, but i only want my mammoth and all its little files.

time

To me, piracy is something adventurous. It makes you think about Johnny Depp.

- Agnete Haaland, of the International Federation of Actors, arguing that piracy should no longer be used to describe illegal downloading because the term is too catchy

there will be

oh fuck me i was making dinner and inexplicably pressed the back of my pinky against the knife and now i'm bleeding. i don't think any of my kitchen episodes ever end without bloodshed.

chastisement

got in trouble today with the father for not checking my tire pressure. good thing you didn't get your tires rotated. the back tires are low on air! you can't wait until the air pressure light comes on. then it's too late! you're supposed to do it every month. i told you to check. did you see those tires? go out and look at them! see how it's worn here? feel the tread. now feel the tread on the front tires. can you tell the difference? bad dog!

endless process

backing up my computer files.

bastion of responsibility.

on the devolution of the word adventure

oh you mean you went outside?

question of the hour

read one hundred and sixteen e-mails today.

extreme productivity or extreme not?