all the roads we have to walk

Look, I even have an explanation. Billy, Allison, Orven, and I ate dinner at Ping Mang, and on the way home Billy made a throwaway comment about how the walk home from anywhere always seemed so much shorter than the walk there. It evolved into a writing challenge, of sorts, to be completed by midnight- so that there is my excuse. Billy and Allison wrote sharp, coherent things (Allison's is here, and Billy's is here), and I wrote this.

Title from Oasis, and yes, I know. Unedited. Mostly here for posterity.





( There's only ever been one fall that merited capital letters. )

all the roads we have to walk

Look, I even have an explanation. Billy, Allison, Orven, and I ate dinner at Ping Mang, and on the way home Billy made a throwaway comment about how the walk home from anywhere always seemed so much shorter than the walk there. It evolved into a writing challenge, of sorts, to be completed by midnight- so that there is my excuse. Billy and Allison wrote sharp, coherent things (Allison's is here, and Billy's is here), and I wrote this.

Title from Oasis, and yes, I know. Unedited. Mostly here for posterity.





( There's only ever been one fall that merited capital letters. )

drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry

I can never say it enough times, and even if I did I am not sure anyone can appreciate the magnitude of the sentiment, but I have to say it: thank God for Allison Noel and Isabella Supnet. Thank God for housemates who if inadvertently prevent me from accidentally dying of suffocation in my own room and long showers and music players and guede_mazaka 's fanfiction and corned beef hash and Pepe Reina. Thank God for friends I will never deserve. I want to put up banners, hire airplanes to write messages across the sky. I'M SANE NOW. PROMISE. AND ALSO INCREDIBLY SORRY, AND INCREDIBLY GRATEFUL. This incredibly shitty week and I am still the luckiest person I know.

drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry

I can never say it enough times, and even if I did I am not sure anyone can appreciate the magnitude of the sentiment, but I have to say it: thank God for Allison Noel and Isabella Supnet. Thank God for housemates who if inadvertently prevent me from accidentally dying of suffocation in my own room and long showers and music players and guede_mazaka 's fanfiction and corned beef hash and Pepe Reina. Thank God for friends I will never deserve. I want to put up banners, hire airplanes to write messages across the sky. I'M SANE NOW. PROMISE. AND ALSO INCREDIBLY SORRY, AND INCREDIBLY GRATEFUL. This incredibly shitty week and I am still the luckiest person I know.