Rice

What makes you get out of bed each morning?

Although I'm sick of staring at this screen... I feel the need to write a blog.  Did you know that the only artform I've ever felt COMPELLED to partake in is writing?  I didn't either, until...
Posted by Rice on Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:45:00 PST

The Hobo Code of Ethics

I gained an interest in hobo life yesterday.  Today I found out that they had a "Code of Ethics" to live by, and it's fucking brilliant (see below).  I wonder what I'll learn tomorrow... ...
Posted by Rice on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:04:00 PST

I'm surrounded.

The collective unconscious is always mind-boggling, sometimes terrifying. They're everywhere and they want me. On Sunday, I felt like my insides were made of Jell-O, wrapped in a jean-tight skin.&nb...
Posted by Rice on Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:30:00 PST

God has a plan...

...and His plan is to kidnap my parents.Aren't I a little too old to be orphaned?I'll tell the story soon enough, but not tonight; I'm in the middle of a nightmare and I've got no one here to pinch me...
Posted by Rice on Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:45:00 PST

There's something wrong with me. Evidence inside.

Sometimes, when I'm feeling down, I like to look at guys' MySpace pages with whom I once had a date or a fling... only the really nice "what-if" ones, though; the guys who I really liked for...
Posted by Rice on Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:57:00 PST

Smoke

Smoke by Ben Folds and Anna Goodman Leaf by leaf, page by pageThrow this book awayAll the sadness, all the rageThrow this book awayRip out the binding, tear the glueAll of the grief we never even kn...
Posted by Rice on Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:52:00 PST

New Mexico

A long, long time ago, Bryan and I had an idea of creating the Biggest and Best Acre in New Mexico.  The idea was spawned after my cross-country road trip and hours upon hours of phone conversati...
Posted by Rice on Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:37:00 PST

Still that steppin’ stone...

I always seem to fall for tragic people, offering them a quick way out.  I'm too impatient to continue loving them once they use those words "not now."  Then I'm back to square once-and-for-...
Posted by Rice on Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:06:00 PST

Four weeks from today...

Four weeks from today, Nikki Rice is going back to school, Rodney Dangerfield style. :) I can't wait to go back.  I will have an associate's degree after two semesters at Waubonsee, then I plan t...
Posted by Rice on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:38:00 PST

Weekend Update with Rice

My foot is feeling pretty awesome and I'm healing quickly.  I got a call the other day from the radiologist and she told me that my foot is fractured, but that I only have to wear my little ace b...
Posted by Rice on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:08:00 PST