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Nick

I am here for Friends

About Me

sometimes i drink my lunch.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

piet mondrian.

Music:

Depeche Mode, the White Stripes, Sheryl Crow, the Strokes, Foo Fighters, No Doubt, Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Hives, Indochine, Beck, the Vines, Queens of the Stone Age, Beastie Boys, Pearl Jam, Muse, Smashing Pumpkins

Movies:

Witness, Taxi Driver, I Heart Huckabees, Forrest Gump, Casino, Sword in the Stone, Misery, the Green Mile, the Shawshank Redemption, Goodfellas, the Black Cauldron, Presque Rien

Television:

Friends, Jeopardy, Will and Grace, Saturday Night Live

Books:

To Kill A Mockingbird, Misery, Life of Pi, the Great Gatsby, Trainspotting, Pet Sematary, Me Talk Pretty One Day, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

My Blog

completely disconcerting

so. that school shooting in ohio. i feel like our country is a factory full of screw ups, you know, one of those factories where they have a sign on the wall that says "68 days without an accident!" w...
Posted by Nick on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:41:00 PST

shortcomings

when anyone asks me how i'm doing, i don't say good or great. i say decent or fine or okay. i am then interrogated as though not being great must mean you're feeling terrible. but really i'm just ok. ...
Posted by Nick on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:00:00 PST

for even a second

um. i stopped writing blogs in june. but not because i had nothing to write about.i won't waste time updating because if you are one of the four people (probably fewer) who reads this blog you know wh...
Posted by Nick on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:14:00 PST

just stop trying

i feel pretty ok about myself right now. usually i don't have anything good to say in my own favor, but for the moment i don't have anything bad to say either and that's good enough for me.i am dreadi...
Posted by Nick on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 01:37:00 PST

question your existence

at this point i am tired of chapstick obsessions, pitstains, hypocrisy, fair-weather friends, and so much arrogance that it's difficult not to gag.i'm not looking for anything. which means that someth...
Posted by Nick on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 11:55:00 PST

glorious splendor

writing a blog is a phenomenal time killer, which is exactly what i need right now. i've been 21 for nine hours seventeen minutes, and i'm starting to get a wee bit anxious to order that first t...
Posted by Nick on Tue, 22 May 2007 06:26:00 PST

before summer's end

someone please explain to me how i felt so at home in the middle of goddamn nowhere, and how lawrence, kansas is a college town that offers ten times as much as east lansing.also please explain to me ...
Posted by Nick on Fri, 18 May 2007 10:12:00 PST

here i come

one block from my apartment, there is a sidewalk square that is shaped exactly like nevada. exactly like it. i love incorporating my love of geography into my everyday life.who am i kidding? geography...
Posted by Nick on Wed, 02 May 2007 12:08:00 PST

poetically brilliant

in a surprising turn of events, i feel extremely pleased and confident in my completion of the final exam for my seventeenth century french literature class. i churned out a solid, well-organized, poe...
Posted by Nick on Tue, 01 May 2007 04:19:00 PST

road construction

all i really want in a romantic interest is someone who can differentiate between "you're" and "your". apparently that's a lot to ask. phase 1, in which doris gets her oats.this week i was lauded as "...
Posted by Nick on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 10:32:00 PST