In Regards to Packaging

You know they have gone too far when they individually wrap eggs.

Worthless Drivel (Do Not Read)

I can't help but feel a bug. The madcap circling of every momentous life event tearing me round and round like water around the mouth of the drain, poised to spit me into my new head space. I'm always so slow, it takes me days to register, "Jimi, you're pretty scared."
"Yeah. its the lack of sleep."
"Yeah, I haven't been in my bible a lot lately."
Yeah, I'm about to make one of the biggest decisions of my life."
*Pause*
Oh. I think I have an answer that fits the symptoms.
The list goes on and on,
1. End of school year crunch
2. Gotta find a new job
3. My friend's bout w/ heart break
4. The slow realization that this may be who I am.
*Shudder*
Its not all that bad. I just have a love of the melodrama, and the quickest way to ruin melodrama is perspective. So there, now this blog is ruined. How can I go off on some tirade on how miserable and adrift I am when I'm not that miserable or adrift. It was going to be a light hearted ditty about confusion and darkness, but no you had to go and ruin it with reason and logic.
*sigh*
I can't seem to find anything to say without sounding pretentious. Do I sound pretentious to you? Is this your idea of entertainment? Are these the things you wanted to know about my week? School is too dull to write about, unless modifying pigment stains is your thing. In which case call me up, I can regale you with stories of 1 lb. cut shellac and how I used A/B bleach to show that dark walnut who's boss. My spiritual life is too weird and quite frankly disconcerting. My social is Jasmine and the random trip to Wal-Mart, which I have been advised by my attorney to not acknowledge actually ever happened. I can't wait to see most of your shining faces, so we can talk mad trash about the ones I won't be seeing, and I'm excited to see what's going to happen. Its a page turner and I'm lucky enough its also my life.

Perplexed in Pennsylvania

How do you reconcile two different ideas? How do married couples do it? I'm torn between feeling like I need to stand up for myself and that I'm just being selfish, always having to have things my way. You probably are asking, "what is he taking about?" Jasmine and I, of course. She would like to get married very soon, like now, and I want to wait till the end of the summer. You can give us all sorts of reasons one way or the other, but that isn't the point. It all boils down to one thing, one of us has to get their way. Do we flip a coin? Do I say, "I'm the man and I have final say?" I want to include Jasmine, my desire is to provide for her and to give her what she wants. Most of you are probably thinking dirty thoughts. Thoughts like Jasmine is trying to manipulate me into a poor decision. She has always desired to get married. My answer to you is, "so what?" You are asking two imperfect people why they aren't in a perfect relationship. I think the answer is pretty obvious. We are beyond the point where we are still asking, "are we meant together?" The budget is there, the locale is there. My only concern is a baby appearing nine months from now, but there are ways to avoid that. I feel torn, between my desire and hers. I had decided in myself, and by myself, to wait until August, but now I see that as very selfish, and once again me trying to avoid responsibility. I know that no one married reads this blog, heck most of you aren't even in a relationship. I'm still asking, if you could put aside the presuppositions for one moment and just look at the facts, what would you do?

See? No Tigers. It Must Be Working.

I haven't met a germ or piece of dirt that could kill me yet. So why are we so afraid of them?

Short and Sweet

My whole life I've been told I have a slow metabolism, always with the negative connotation. Well today I realized I don't have a slow metabolism, my body is just able to use food more efficiently. Therefore from now on please refer to it as a superior metabolic process. Yeah, that's right, superior. I'm getting way more use out of the food I eat than a skinny person.

From the Boys Down at Acme

These were done with the Lego's Emily sent me a few months back.

Comic Genius

Tat New

This is the new tattoo. The one on the left is me, and the one on the right is Jasmine. We got it on Saturday. We had been plotting this one out for going on three years and it just finally worked out. This is the symbol it was designed from. It is a West African symbol.

Nkyinkyim "twisting"

It stands for:

Endurance, grace under hardship
a symbol of initiative, dynamism and versatility
The motif suggests an ability to adapt to different conditions and circumstances, and a warning that in life you need to play many different roles. Its pretty fitting, don't you think?

Not Worth Your Time

I figured I better write, because every buddy seems to be in the reading mood. I wonder if its the weather? So I have two really great blog ideas, but one requires a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and the other a decent digital camera. I do not have these. Oh yeah, and if anybody from the Wisconsin hood goes by a George Webb's, please, please, please grab me two or so of their place mats. I would love you forever. Otherwise I have to wait until I come to visit Wisconsin in June, which is rapidly approaching, I guess. I'm so super tired today, being a Wednesday and that makes me pretty lame, which makes this entry pretty lame. I can't even think of a witty ending or anecdote, for shame. I guess nobody bats a perfect ten.

I'm Colored (Sort of a Atomic Tangerine)