4.20.2004 (22:00:00)

I now live in Germantown, MD. Earlier this month I moved out of the ghetto in Southwest DC to a d-lux apartment, nearby-ay-eye. My Internet connection has been down because Verizon is a very bad company. Very very bad. They said the DSL line would be up within a week. Nothing happened. Finally, after a dozen calls they tell me it takes a month. I told them to shove the wire up their lazy asses and called the next sleaziest company in the connectivity world - Comcast. They were here the next day, and now I'm on a more expensive, albeit faster, cable modem. So. Long story short, I've been out of touch for a while and have much to make up for. Many things have changed. For instance. Shayne is moving in. I am going to co-habitate! It will be different. But I think I'm ready.

This afternoon I sat next to Neo from the Matrix on the bus from my subway stop. Well. Actually it was a guy who looked like him. And it was creepy. Also, there is a family that seems to have the same schedule as me. The parents are both deaf, and they have a little girl, about 6, that communicates with them using sign language. She seems to be the happiest little girl I've ever seen. They always sit in the same place, right behind the bus driver. There is a lot of love in those three seats. It's quite inspiring.

4.28.2004 (19:00:00)

Today I found out that an old friend from Maine lost her brother on Monday. He was killed in Iraq. They were terribly close. I remember how she used to talk about him often. It is so sad, and upsetting. I read the news at work, and it hit me rather hard. So many lives. I left during lunch to visit the National Archives to view the Constitution - perhaps to try and understand a little more about the foundation of this country. What we did to get where we are, and what it all means. It didn't help, and I still feel that something is horribly wrong with what is going on in the world right now.