tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38062786288327139442024-03-03T19:25:46.480-05:00Find a Little Silver LiningA blog/comic about the adventures I take in life, the bold ideas that shape who I am, the dreams that lead my actions and the understanding that every story has a silver lining.Mr. Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08743687025396337633noreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3806278628832713944.post-59631939330036311042011-12-14T14:42:00.000-05:002011-12-14T14:44:06.950-05:00The Zombie Survival Radio<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Once again I am back ladies and gentlemen! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I know it has taken me a very long time, but know that I have been working hard to get something very fantastic up and running.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">May I present to you all, the <a href="http://www.zombiesurvivalradio.com/">Zombie Survival Radio.</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">If you like adventure, survival, and of course zombies, </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This is a place I highly recommend. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It is a sort of novel, with doodles, that is constantly evolving right here on the internet, and is largely influenced by works such as Hatchet, and The Hunger Games. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I'll be working on it constantly, so feel free to join up in the story of a world that has already ended!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I've missed you all terribly, </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">See you there! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">- Mr. Joshua -</span>Mr. Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08743687025396337633noreply@blogger.com96tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3806278628832713944.post-91487027752075019662011-09-30T15:36:00.000-04:002011-11-27T21:17:12.652-05:00Farewell and Goodbye.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Can you believe it has been a whole year already? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">That's right. It was around a year ago I started putting this whole thing together. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It will still be a little while till I would get that first post up here, but I started pulling it all together around now. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">A whole year. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Long time. Longest I have ever worked on one project before. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">But it was a really good year. Only wrote about half the stories I had planned to write, but I got a few really good ones in there. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Yes you read that right. That slight insinuation, the mild tell tale hint,</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I'm done here. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The End of Mr. Joshua as a story teller of my own random acts in life. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I'll always be a story teller sure. But now I have even bigger plans!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I've a whole team together and we are going to make something that will outshine FALSL a thousand to one. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">But I wanted to say thank you to everyone who read, hopefully enjoyed, and supported me through all this. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I proved a lot to myself and hope to see you all around my new work when that finally gets up and running!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Don't worry, I'll add a link when I do.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So thank you everyone! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">And as a final gift goodbye here are all the picture I finished, but never got to write the stories too.</span><br />
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<br />Mr. Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08743687025396337633noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3806278628832713944.post-79119636124005685662011-09-23T19:54:00.000-04:002011-09-23T19:54:56.084-04:00Collaboration<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Collaboration is a wonderful thing.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Working together with someone to reach a common goal can lead to so much productivity!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Not to mention great ideas you may miss on your own.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Honestly, I simply cannot stress how wonderfully powerful and entertaining collaborative work is.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I guess I should explain.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I've made a new friend in my adventures through life. A talented one no less, my favorite.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Her name is Cat.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This morning I thought it would be neat if we made up a story.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I cannot really say I've done so with someone else before. I've sort of mashed two stories together. I've added characters to other peoples stories,</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">but a real collaborative work?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Not till then.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Just the level of work we accomplished was fantastic. In what seemed like no time at all we had a whole story with quirky additives and hilarious characters. We even have the movie adaptation planned out.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This may be old news for everyone else out there,</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">but collaboration is simply fantastic when you have the right people.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Or in my case, person.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So it looks like I'll be writing a book~!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I'm sure it will have lots of doodles too.</span>Mr. Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08743687025396337633noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3806278628832713944.post-69105151569725394162011-09-16T07:56:00.000-04:002011-09-16T07:56:06.285-04:00Omnibus 2<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Of just about everything. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No seriously I am. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Everything new or foreign to me, so a lot of things, freaks me the hell out. You want to see me freak out? Watch me try to get a job. I FLIP* out. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">* I only literally flipped that one time, which was just because my job at the time wanted to know if I could. I cannot. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I do however fight these fears. I don’t let them stop me from living my life. In fact is is likely because of them that I try so hard in almost everything I do. I have to try that much harder just to get there. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">I just want to choose what I want to do outside of the influences from society and my peers. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"><b>I hate most norms of society. </b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">Don't get me wrong, some are great. The whole "Don't randomly kill people" one is very good in my opinion. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">It is the close minded ones that hold back change, the future, and everything that keeps the world interesting that I hate. I will in fact be very vocal about this, draw many pictures about it, and much more if provoked. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">So if you want an intense conversation of passion, pull this one out on me. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">Not quite sure how to connect to this one but,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"><b>I am lonely. </b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">So very much so. There is a part of me deep inside that I cannot seem to fill no matter how hard I try. My heart screams out that a person can fill that void inside me, but as it stands, I am very lonely. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">I'm not sure why, I feel loved, I know I am cared for. Something inside me however constantly battles with me and leaves me feeling lonely. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">Ironically enough the more people are around the more lonely I feel. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">I'm not much of a party kinda guy I guess.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">I am in all matters of the word, fun, when I am happy. Ask anyone I work with or play with. I am so much more, and in general, fun when I am happy. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">Wanting me to be happy is a direct benefit for everyone around. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">I'm not especially hard to make happy either. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">See those giant words I wrote up there? </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">That is the gist of my point here. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">Encourage me. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">Be creative about how you try and make me happy. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">Instead of just thinking that you may have a good time with me, let me know. I love to know that people think. By voicing your opinion un-requested like that, I promise you will get a smile. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">Presents are wonderful things. A little one can go a long way. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">Something as simple as a sticky note, or a random text, telling me something you like about me, or something you would like to do just us. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">That will make me happy. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">Biggest of all though? I am super duper happy when I accomplish something. So if you want to win in the long run, help me on any of my many projects I work so hard on. Pay day is when we accomplish something major in the project.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">I promise it is worth it. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">What the hell did you do? </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">I am not an easy person to upset like that. I may get disappointing, roll my eyes easily, and even groan a whole lot, but if you get to the point where you need my forgiveness.... </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">Well I hope you at least read this. That is a step in the right direction. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">There are only a few key triggers that will get me super pissed off.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">At that point, I hope you are sorry for what you did. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">Fighting with me over it will do absolutely nothing but turn me into a malicious word spewing serpent.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">I promise that is not a good thing. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">Try the conventional methods. Say sorry, try to make me happy, that is a big one, and most of all do not do it again. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">I'll likely never forget what you did, but I always move forward. So work with forward. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">But my god if you scream. Like an "I'm mad at you, myself, whatever" scream. You will have unlocked a primal evil in my soul that will be hell bent on removing any part of your mind that found that to be a good idea. Done and done. Do NOT do that if you ever want to get along with me. **</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">** mind you if you need to scream for an emergency that is totally different. If you scream as in a "help!" scream. I will drop everything to figure out/fix the problem. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> Especially if we are upset with one another! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">Negative feelings about one another fester over time. Without words, we will lose everything without even trying. </span><br />
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Mr. Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08743687025396337633noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3806278628832713944.post-83433250428627534782011-09-09T08:05:00.000-04:002011-09-09T08:05:07.834-04:00The Omnibus Of Mr. Joshua<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I often wish that people knew me better. Wish people knew the question to ask, the answers to seek, and everything in-between. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So one day I decided to write it all out. Explain who I am so everyone could know. So I could know, and give reference to who I am.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some of which I already started explaining </span><a href="http://findalittlesilverlining.blogspot.com/2011/06/en-garde.html"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><a href="http://findalittlesilverlining.blogspot.com/2011/01/society-we-live-in.html"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> as well.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But I wanted a place to pull it all together.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lets begin from the top.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My name is Joshua.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joshua Jenkins.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I love to tell stories, I have an adequate mastery of words in the English language, I am a would be cartoonist of glorified stick figures, and I love swords and zombies more then most things on the planet.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But this is all very shallow information. Let us delve deeper. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I commonly play the “Question Game,” or “Awkward Game,” as I sometimes call it, with people I’ve had to fortune to meet and enjoy the company of in life. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But why do I love questions?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Questions act as a gateway to figuring out who someone is, and to letting someone know you. Similarities within people can act as good catalysts for a bond between people. But Questions lead to an understanding of who a person is, building a stronger bond without the necessity of a common outside influence. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Is that to say I bond with everyone I ask questions to? No, not at all. But it does let me know who I want to bond with, and the mind often does what it wants. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Moving on, </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I want to become an Internet celebrity for my creative works. I want to wake up everyday and work, with skilled and talented people, to make those YouTube videos you all love so much, to write books, make a movie, write comics, and always always </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">always, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">tell more stories. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Also note worthy, I want this more then anything in my life. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Every waking moment I am not at work I am working for that very goal, or, trying to manage the levels of stress such large scale dreams leave on my shoulders... speaking of which,</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now, I gather everyone is a stressed person from time to time. I am not trying to say I am so much more so then anyone else, just that I get stressed out sometimes. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Incidentally it is all my own fault. The idle levels of stress my life propagates are very small in comparison to the levels of stress I bring upon myself with my outlandish dreams. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The real kicker is that my stress develops around abstract concepts I have little to no control over. Like luck. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And I know this. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Which is how I work to cope with such stresses. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Enough about such unfortunate things.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am a rather intelligent person, but more important then that,</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From seemingly useless facts, to new skills, I love to learn and develop as a person. In my mind it is through learning that things change. Change being the device by which the story of life moves forward and remains interesting to the audience. The audience being all of us people. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And this ties into the fact that I,</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From how you stand, to the words you choose to say, or not say, I am pulling together more information about you then you ever hoped to let out. This is a derivative from years of study and a strong desire to understand things. Especially people. Not to mention “</span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0452046/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Criminal Minds</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">” is a really addictive show. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I know a number of people who would protest to my claim at being shy. But I am and always have been. A depressed and defiance of social norms throughout my early teenage years often left me a loner outside of groups of friends. Even the strong friendships I fostered were founded on a basis of being shy and quite. Nothing more the praise and agreement leaving my lips. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It was after years where only luck garnered anything of value in my life that I decided I wanted more. I wanted a life of adventure and excitement, one luck was not giving me. A life being shy was not going to get. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So I decided to battle against my innate nature and act less shy. Which I still do today. Years of practice making me quite good at it most of the time.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I cannot however just up and change who I am. Little gaps and breaches in my facade showing up every now and then. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://findalittlesilverlining.blogspot.com/2011/03/aliens-jk.html">Just look at this post.</a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And the more you get to know me, the more cracks you will see. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">case and point </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://findalittlesilverlining.blogspot.com/2011/07/mystery-is-sexier.html">here.</a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I think all the time about dozens of different things. In fact you could ask me at any given moment of my day and I will likely be able to tell you at least three things I am thinking at that very moment. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">More evidence </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://findalittlesilverlining.blogspot.com/2011/01/i-wear-belts.html">here.</a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From what I wear, to how I act, walk, talk, and think, I like to be a little different. One step off from the norm. Leading my life as if I were some comic book character. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bored is a word I save only for when stuck in a place I never wanted to be, away from everything I care about, for hours and hours at a time. I am passionate about most things in my life. FALSL here being one of the more passionate and driving things in my life. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Think about that for a moment. Does it make sense? Let me explain. Look at the things I mentioned about my personality before. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now question if you are in any way smiler to me. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I love shy girls,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I love story tellers,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I even love to see people stressed a little about there own ambitions.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Your best bet however, above all things in the world is,</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Be talented at something. You don’t even have to be very good. Just be passionate towards a skill of your own. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Skilled people have a special place in my heart. Because it is with them I will craft beautiful things. It is with skilled people that I feel most alive, it is with skilled people I accomplish my dreams.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There is a lot more about me then what I have written here.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Or maybe I even wrote a blog post about some other aspect?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Either way, let me know if you can think of something I should add in the comments and I’ll be sure to update the “Omnibus of Mr. Joshua.” </span><br />
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Mr. Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08743687025396337633noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3806278628832713944.post-87017429239917861912011-09-02T15:26:00.001-04:002011-09-02T15:26:22.668-04:00Red and Black is Done.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Only it didn’t stop.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Maybe I would enjoy a good one, but those don't seem to happen much of ever.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Recently I have found myself in a new line of work. Not my original intention as I liked my old line of work quite a bit. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Due to legal issues and all that I'll not say any names. But know this, I had time while working to doodle on a sketch pad and to write some lines for stories. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Which basically makes it an idea job in my mind. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Imagine my surprise when my boss tells me not to go into work all the next week.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I always want to say that talking to my boss is not a bad thing. That maybe she just wanted to give me a tip, or let me know about some event going on later.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">But no.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">She was telling me I was going to have a hard time paying for anything for the next seven days. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">A plastic smile may have pretended to show a level of understanding from my part.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This would of course be a lie. </span><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This was the first thing I drew when I got back to my room to see my co workers again, I think it accurately describes how I felt at the time. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I really don't like bad news like that. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Actively draining one of the few things I come to grow dependent on as a constant in my life.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This of course only got worse as I talked to my co-worker/ friends about it. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Though it was, and is, likely an overly dramatic reaction, I do tend to be overly dramatic. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">And I may have worried a few of my co-workers in the process.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This is not a sad story though. So do not get too worried about that.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Sometimes life throws curve balls at you.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Like telling you not to go into work for a week.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Or the next one.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Or for three weeks.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Or makes it impossible to pay all your expenses in life not because you did anything wrong, just because you "don't need to come into work."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">*sigh*</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">But I am a productive man. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I used that time to get a new job which is something like this.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Only there are no dinosaurs, I do not have a view of a volcano from my window, nor does my job have anything to do with a well.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">There are trees around us though. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Sometimes you have to get moving even when you don't want to.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Sometimes you have to make changes with things you were completely happy with.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Sometimes you have to make do with what you can get.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">And to everyone else out there that this has ever happened to. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Damn it sucks.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Hard.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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Mr. Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08743687025396337633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3806278628832713944.post-58619495918319400612011-08-12T21:19:00.000-04:002011-08-12T21:19:09.274-04:00New Art<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicD3tELBj6VHmEEu0i6QYfnW1wq9eO5kHbiy5EOYbYIBwubvW0NnF3B1SsuJmKYVd2zdxHBkv3Wviv2IlwW5tVqZC-5dJA2wSR3lpkxgYLq3OG3vJqjFOtBrLapW-cCdxhyphenhyphenJH64RQT46o/s1600/bad-ass.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicD3tELBj6VHmEEu0i6QYfnW1wq9eO5kHbiy5EOYbYIBwubvW0NnF3B1SsuJmKYVd2zdxHBkv3Wviv2IlwW5tVqZC-5dJA2wSR3lpkxgYLq3OG3vJqjFOtBrLapW-cCdxhyphenhyphenJH64RQT46o/s1600/bad-ass.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So new art style I have been working on...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYCAI2ZPtlApOKqFCarXe0ubbZeFpzibXCzER1_mXrXZk_HNlmOKASJxkOMb_zQruhhPQ8meBofDAHla-GApg954s6cNuIfhF3nBoo7-zD5utC__W6unQDU7aSzJIMV5qITjBpYDKomQo/s1600/new-style-down-in-the-dumps.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYCAI2ZPtlApOKqFCarXe0ubbZeFpzibXCzER1_mXrXZk_HNlmOKASJxkOMb_zQruhhPQ8meBofDAHla-GApg954s6cNuIfhF3nBoo7-zD5utC__W6unQDU7aSzJIMV5qITjBpYDKomQo/s1600/new-style-down-in-the-dumps.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I'm actually quite happy with it- </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I know I know who am I and what have I done with the real Joshua?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcW5hFYeIsl_ir-sj3191Rnw9rMzPYjTYsK38LnyzGBlebNxk_vpvfWXcNUAO8EdhEUmbWuyBJLEGz-TMYjjwLKCjPheKXwL4y-jWt6to2yf8t6HDTYOopmLhR73Bj-pYv5UdYHJ69UTM/s1600/who-she-is.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcW5hFYeIsl_ir-sj3191Rnw9rMzPYjTYsK38LnyzGBlebNxk_vpvfWXcNUAO8EdhEUmbWuyBJLEGz-TMYjjwLKCjPheKXwL4y-jWt6to2yf8t6HDTYOopmLhR73Bj-pYv5UdYHJ69UTM/s1600/who-she-is.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">But seriously I enjoy it. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Not perfect. But certainly movement; a change. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8gJeZkZdPP0Hm-lFTSORfnmJevFpNJRMY-IwLOuaWxIeuTpkbJ4f-aTcFb2kYLwuILiSTKLyEZiIOuIwCu2hH_1whuANqEkmnH6FK7AOEGpc6vNwF9TXImqvqMQrCVXYVx2v-LX9jyFI/s1600/I-stand-like-this.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8gJeZkZdPP0Hm-lFTSORfnmJevFpNJRMY-IwLOuaWxIeuTpkbJ4f-aTcFb2kYLwuILiSTKLyEZiIOuIwCu2hH_1whuANqEkmnH6FK7AOEGpc6vNwF9TXImqvqMQrCVXYVx2v-LX9jyFI/s1600/I-stand-like-this.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Yes I actually stand like that, and yes more often then I likely should.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I wish I had more then just some pictures to show you all this week, wish I had more of a story to tell you, but I've just started this new job,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">and I keep making friends,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">and not so friends,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">and I'm not so good at the cash register, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">though I'm good at selling things!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">And I did almost die before work today.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Choking alone in my house. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Bad way to go.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">And not so bad of a story...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">maybe some other time. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div>Mr. Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08743687025396337633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3806278628832713944.post-11704566716336805042011-08-05T09:56:00.002-04:002011-08-05T11:22:43.132-04:00silhouettes and the internet<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvW8YP-88Clno6eefNwij1J3HbXzgB9MOC64mebEhvc9Fk6yo-eIV8PutmP7WKh8iFimCMyBUqI9r1OFJPSRCovG1x0AQTgyN3tKEPI6BSdXfiAouIURrYltfgbMfFzM7lDv7FX7-6wPI/s1600/BLAM-%2528Nyx%2529.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvW8YP-88Clno6eefNwij1J3HbXzgB9MOC64mebEhvc9Fk6yo-eIV8PutmP7WKh8iFimCMyBUqI9r1OFJPSRCovG1x0AQTgyN3tKEPI6BSdXfiAouIURrYltfgbMfFzM7lDv7FX7-6wPI/s400/BLAM-%2528Nyx%2529.gif" width="369" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">I love silhouette art work. I used to do a lot more of it. Capturing the actions of my friends, and my own actions as well, in frozen moments of time, devoid of identification. Only a shadow of what actually transpired. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpU2SQkgR6pxSu-vLnzaAG-txv45GLAT5_IBz5KZoFdB2tP620jWs2OTqCpQXqgAqETZ2uV4fm5dN2H0vkCOxaYlUG3F2SwiJLflgaaGX05I-da5WE2jRdcZCsBIO56gG9mAY6uturCFg/s1600/Noah-Sword-in-head.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpU2SQkgR6pxSu-vLnzaAG-txv45GLAT5_IBz5KZoFdB2tP620jWs2OTqCpQXqgAqETZ2uV4fm5dN2H0vkCOxaYlUG3F2SwiJLflgaaGX05I-da5WE2jRdcZCsBIO56gG9mAY6uturCFg/s400/Noah-Sword-in-head.gif" width="225" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">It is all about the story. What can the shadow tell of the life it lives under? What does each line represent? </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">All you are left with is a simple profound concept. A movement, an action. Like this picture here, we only know so much. There is a hat, there is movement. Perhaps a punch?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPx6CYQhWid2kqOy53IJO7DicbuNl8tfo9d606VX0rvZEMQ2tT8-DEAKwD1BaXROuUITEJh0NcyYAv2ocmovKNdRnvfISgaAty-3bsIso8OiIvKwn0yIMUbtPDCCALq0vIpsJ0QiZga_w/s1600/Dr.-Wacky-hand-goggles..gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPx6CYQhWid2kqOy53IJO7DicbuNl8tfo9d606VX0rvZEMQ2tT8-DEAKwD1BaXROuUITEJh0NcyYAv2ocmovKNdRnvfISgaAty-3bsIso8OiIvKwn0yIMUbtPDCCALq0vIpsJ0QiZga_w/s400/Dr.-Wacky-hand-goggles..gif" width="225" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Though as you may see I do break such rules. For my silhouettes lie. They hold tell tale signs of the people the were before. A tie for example. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">But art is a fickle thing in the end. While I am over joyed by such simple things like these pictures and my glorified stick figures I cannot assume others are as well. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIllOlgCs9K3duWQfZHk_I6mSa6r7I_9rIBGjfNtbcurfwOAlM4Gl0VmZ2HVkbV_cwwSWF65mjaUtLNCWBqgLUaBqD5p6PYRZhEnASpRYc8UlFv8E5f2DKtknpyBmd9j-uSpBHPqwEY7s/s1600/steve-well.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIllOlgCs9K3duWQfZHk_I6mSa6r7I_9rIBGjfNtbcurfwOAlM4Gl0VmZ2HVkbV_cwwSWF65mjaUtLNCWBqgLUaBqD5p6PYRZhEnASpRYc8UlFv8E5f2DKtknpyBmd9j-uSpBHPqwEY7s/s1600/steve-well.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">I'm stuck in a crossroads recently with all this art related work here on the internet, my silhouettes reminding me of other times i tried such things. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">The internet has this annoying fact where a lot of what goes on has to do with luck. How lucky am I? Will people find my blog? My stories? </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieHK8TnX0PsxBd-VlnWlHQ75uj0OIOkJ5J93mwTXifEhGqBGI7gdpSeIS_RMabHKkpoelttzvenqMePGkt_nojMRkvAP9e3UOwyJQNFw4K9ZIPaA7y951VI3_kypzCfroK_Q8zUmzSVOg/s1600/Gabriel-Fedora.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieHK8TnX0PsxBd-VlnWlHQ75uj0OIOkJ5J93mwTXifEhGqBGI7gdpSeIS_RMabHKkpoelttzvenqMePGkt_nojMRkvAP9e3UOwyJQNFw4K9ZIPaA7y951VI3_kypzCfroK_Q8zUmzSVOg/s400/Gabriel-Fedora.gif" width="225" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Of course some do. I love it very much when people find my work, makes me feel like I've really accomplished something. But it has been so many months now. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcuZIKpFZIt5g4oMfAPL42GjlpuLtf3nGgtQwiE5Wh2pwj0EoCoJsShGVkx-kMEjZ0VoA807ZYOsaCEqKn-2PoNdeHYALENxP11lKdjaqBQDUOSkHYYhPfHgANwrsrTkdkWdqm0svCrTY/s1600/Nyx-Gun-at-side.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcuZIKpFZIt5g4oMfAPL42GjlpuLtf3nGgtQwiE5Wh2pwj0EoCoJsShGVkx-kMEjZ0VoA807ZYOsaCEqKn-2PoNdeHYALENxP11lKdjaqBQDUOSkHYYhPfHgANwrsrTkdkWdqm0svCrTY/s400/Nyx-Gun-at-side.gif" width="225" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">How little my impact feels. I don't have any cushion of comments to remind me that people read. I don't have millions of page views to show me I have fans. Over time this feeling builds up inside of me; </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Am I just not lucky? Or am I just no good? I want to tell myself it has to be luck. I have some people who come back to my site. I love them for it. I make people laugh with my stories. I'm entertaining, or else really good at faking it because my friends all seem to think so and I rather value their opinion. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">I don't get messages specifically stating I suck at what I am trying. So that's one more for my "it is all luck" mentality. The worst part being everything about this is speculation.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGJhFm_X-QPqYVCxg_QGN9s_49orIMHxeK9x7DKyRBOtiqoWLaqJRaUrLA4nHowRLvcdpfEpSQd6eXcKAAw387Wipk2azPWUaO6yEwLIrmCFiFYt4h_ZjxM4XDJ2HCKj42bO9LJTULUk0/s1600/Nyx-blowin-the-head-off-a-z.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKKfKSHhMLUfNzjlgLLC-Eo0RUuWsYe1EqpK6ZI-ElQiFnn_3POgcuM-ySGJZzyX2UM4j8bqYsFALgkPcuFF80X2sQ6GKDw2mpWHu0f3BpHtYKEcQCrDA00azpoHPskHOZ7mKSyQFi7ek/s1600/sillhouet-paounch.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKKfKSHhMLUfNzjlgLLC-Eo0RUuWsYe1EqpK6ZI-ElQiFnn_3POgcuM-ySGJZzyX2UM4j8bqYsFALgkPcuFF80X2sQ6GKDw2mpWHu0f3BpHtYKEcQCrDA00azpoHPskHOZ7mKSyQFi7ek/s640/sillhouet-paounch.jpg" width="360" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">And i know it is not just me. All over the internet there are other people just as talented, or more so, then myself with the same problem. It can be so hard to work on something you love when no one seems to care. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">I wish I could find all of us unlucky artisans of the internet. I wish we could band together and create something that would be so grand no luck would be needed to find it. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
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</span></div>Mr. Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08743687025396337633noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3806278628832713944.post-4386592608235769202011-07-29T10:57:00.001-04:002011-07-31T16:21:18.943-04:00Half Web-Comic, Half Blog, Half Experiment, Half Zombie.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuCpoUQsYxh9RSy6BaBO7iQeAOul3i_dls3sAIcnRu3iuJHNjaD2qVoyGx80mfZiPV4lDTCEFCTHAIZF8o3p1zNgHs9wN6LABH3hKWLhL1h4HvPXSkXY00EvRKLKt5FRZcPBXJiZYcbEs/s1600/Tragedy-zombie-comic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuCpoUQsYxh9RSy6BaBO7iQeAOul3i_dls3sAIcnRu3iuJHNjaD2qVoyGx80mfZiPV4lDTCEFCTHAIZF8o3p1zNgHs9wN6LABH3hKWLhL1h4HvPXSkXY00EvRKLKt5FRZcPBXJiZYcbEs/s640/Tragedy-zombie-comic.jpg" width="494" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I've been having a lot of issues recently with my tablet style art for my pictures recently. So I am playing with some scanned in - touched up - style images and hopefully I can get a nice looking product!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This is a comic idea that dawned on me during work the other day, and I thought it a great example for a test run. </span></div>Mr. Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08743687025396337633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3806278628832713944.post-16120974611515298972011-07-22T17:38:00.003-04:002011-07-23T18:05:53.073-04:00Dear Nyx<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpEusroG_sxujuqtjDWeEmzBvrzUq8lXFk6GOqx2ZneWyqNQxV8l_kdLPhqon7Yfs0YL57QR33Q31wMxSQjVhLFPTW8CXaYEUK-gRrgzn_WM26-w2jFxUcLtDtfsT6TBLzCq7C-luTKuA/s1600/nyx-letter-header.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpEusroG_sxujuqtjDWeEmzBvrzUq8lXFk6GOqx2ZneWyqNQxV8l_kdLPhqon7Yfs0YL57QR33Q31wMxSQjVhLFPTW8CXaYEUK-gRrgzn_WM26-w2jFxUcLtDtfsT6TBLzCq7C-luTKuA/s1600/nyx-letter-header.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Dear Nyx,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> Every time we talk to one another we always seem to fight. Our words triggers to emotional rail guns, indiscriminate of who they tear apart. So perhaps some words away from one another can help. Maybe a story can fix things, or at least make a difference. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Besides, we certainly have plenty of ammunition for a good tale. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> Nyx you are the girl who fell in love with me for all the right reasons.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">You didn’t love me because I was sad,<br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">You didn’t love me because I was a warm body,<br />
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</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">You didn’t love me because you wanted me to entertain you,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">You didn’t love me because I asked you to,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">You loved me for who I was,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">And who I wanted to be. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> We had the perfect teenage love story way back when; hidden in the thralls of a million kisses. We had the perfect number of zombies too. Swords, dates, video-games, friends, long talks on the phone, zombies, stories, pictures, movies, dying our hair blue for some reason, more zombies. I know what you are thinking, I was wrong, we clearly needed more zombies. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> Was it all fun? No not at all. There were flaws, you know that. But looking back I am filled with fond memories, and I hope you are too.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> That happy misdemeanor aside, you left me Nyx, and our happy little teenage youth died that day.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> You can argue the contrary all you want. But to me? In my head? Where I am stuck all day? When you ran off to college you ran from me and left me. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> And that is ok. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">But I need you to understand what happened.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">You ran to college and I ran to. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Why do you think I decided two weeks before college started, with no major, with all that talk of not going, what changed? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> We did, and we had to. I accepted it, but didn’t like it. You stabbed me in the heart, and just because I knew I was being stabbed didn’t make it any less painful. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> Try stabbing yourself slowly, then tell me otherwise. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> So I ran hundreds of miles away, I ran from everything I knew, everything I could remember, and it was stupid. Emotional and stupid, but I did it anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> I did a lot of stupid things then. Not all of which I am proud of. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> You know what I am proud of though? I grew up Nyx. Not over night, it took a while, but I grew up.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">That was a while ago.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> Just because we keep bumping into one another does not make us teenagers again. Things have changed, and we both know that. We just don’t always act like we know that. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> I’m not trying to say I’m mad at you for any of this. I am not mad, or even upset about it. I have always valued you furthering your education, it is very important to you. I just want you to know it hurt a lot back then.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> I keep hoping we can be friends, that we can forge something from our times together from these worlds apart.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> I think we are just lonely. There is enough melodrama in this letter already; things do not need to be more complicated than that. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> We are lonely and that compounds with our own personal problems, my career, your life goals, to create a whole lot of yuck. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Man this letter is not going as I intended. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> So I propose we drop the yuck, accept we cannot be for each other what we used to be, that things are different now, that we cannot turn back time and we go on that road trip with Gabriel and Rook like you wanted to. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> Beach, mountains, camping, we have never been camping before. Something fun. Something simple.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Meeting new people can be really frustrating some times. </span></div>Mr. Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08743687025396337633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3806278628832713944.post-16258319188987473322011-07-09T10:39:00.000-04:002011-07-09T10:39:44.919-04:00Mystery Is Sexier<div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIMj_2EUxJ3QuDlrwcIL_BUdXBdSmHgN-Upj2BrExcFNdf6Z7hwD32z2PlGGc2bBBERqmPK5qxX68mzM2qT4wHv4X_q5zq6SbwGFwY234fZ6DhopFHEzne3JKZFe1E1oNyfwOGxdZthIc/s1600/Mystery-is-sexier---3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIMj_2EUxJ3QuDlrwcIL_BUdXBdSmHgN-Upj2BrExcFNdf6Z7hwD32z2PlGGc2bBBERqmPK5qxX68mzM2qT4wHv4X_q5zq6SbwGFwY234fZ6DhopFHEzne3JKZFe1E1oNyfwOGxdZthIc/s1600/Mystery-is-sexier---3.jpg" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Why? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Because when I don’t know anything about people; just a few traits I can see, there is so much mystery. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Something simple intrigues me. How she sits, her choice of clothes, her eyes. Often times it is her eyes. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">And then it all begins. The mystery, the complete lack of anything else about her. Trying to define someone off of so little. Every moment becomes a battle to try and learn more about her. This story unfolding with each minute gem of information. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">What is she like? What stories can she tell? What has she been </span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">My mind starts making stories, dramatic adventures, grand quests and journeys, where she plays the protagonist. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">But you know? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I’m probably coming across as trying too hard.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">*shrug*<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Ah well. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>Mr. Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08743687025396337633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3806278628832713944.post-19750682265515104072011-07-01T08:28:00.001-04:002011-07-01T08:35:16.592-04:00Vlog!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFkzx9Ymk9U">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFkzx9Ymk9U</a> <--- Also my Vlog.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Want to hear stories I've never written down?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Want to see what I actually look like in person?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Well then my Vlog is just the place to go!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFkzx9Ymk9U">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFkzx9Ymk9U</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Enjoy! (I hope)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I am a sword fighter in a world of guns. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Clashing blades with someone, or just listening to the whistling sound of a sword cutting through the air, have been some of my favorite ways to spend my free time since before I can even remember. At least my mother says so, and I can attest for that part that I do recall. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">All my life I have battled away, each new opponent like a fresh start to remove all the imperfections from before. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I never even knew why. Not really. Fun? Oh most certainly. But what was it that I loved so much about swords? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">In a world full of guns I choose the clearly less destructive weapon. Most all of us have seen the scene in "Indian Jones" where that is proved quite thoroughly. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Why go to all the trouble, all the effort, of learning how to use an outdated weapon? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Destruction! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> Violence!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Why was I using something that takes so long to learn over a gun which is more deadly with absolutely no skill whatsoever? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Now maybe this was some extremely obvious thing to other people on the planet, but I realized recently why. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Why I love swords as much as I do, why guns just don't cut it. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">A sword is about so much more the just crude violence. It is a testament to myself. A sign of my will, my resolve. My desire to overcome an obstacle not easily but skillfully and diligently. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Being skilled with a sword may not save me from bullets, but it does give me the self confidence to know I can likely save someone if I really need to. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">And that self confidence? That is the real worth, the real reason I love swords.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Because in the end my actions, born of violence, have led me to be the person I am; strong and determined to succeed in a world where growing up only gets harder. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So more likely for me it is swords. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">What is it for you?</span>Mr. Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08743687025396337633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3806278628832713944.post-15198862787743156372011-06-17T21:59:00.002-04:002011-06-17T22:22:38.545-04:00The Cast<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I often times see my own life as a sort of TV show or book of some sort. </span><br />
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</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Me playing the role of the protagonist, and on a few occasions the antagonist as well. </span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic3cq0jmhTfEidD5etr5goO3s_qDNztWqKfC3yWaVZB_-wS2tXp4E7GCKCMLzwLIyo8Z69bcGIojijnpUuKOO9xVpidEG1jSUGLSdH0UMsnNsqH2zIEZG9mpBNh86YPI282Hl6FTdJets/s1600/YEAH+OPTIMISM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic3cq0jmhTfEidD5etr5goO3s_qDNztWqKfC3yWaVZB_-wS2tXp4E7GCKCMLzwLIyo8Z69bcGIojijnpUuKOO9xVpidEG1jSUGLSdH0UMsnNsqH2zIEZG9mpBNh86YPI282Hl6FTdJets/s1600/YEAH+OPTIMISM.jpg" /></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">but around all that there is this ever changing cast of characters that show up. Some more then others, and I wanted to dedicate a page to who they are and how I know them just in case anyone is confused OR I want to remember some many days from now. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">First up is my family. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwGn55RKF05cQgU8hmY4PISkvUBCrMxXJY8QK3__SLdlHghtXlgUl8fMwbWPHOGK0MoiFuHQwS4A0Bt_Gt67tAE7qYp2T7EFGFFGDfKBGHpOW4Z0ZD5DaeMRSw-x3CNFfSdcG8DtDnPIM/s1600/Family.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwGn55RKF05cQgU8hmY4PISkvUBCrMxXJY8QK3__SLdlHghtXlgUl8fMwbWPHOGK0MoiFuHQwS4A0Bt_Gt67tAE7qYp2T7EFGFFGDfKBGHpOW4Z0ZD5DaeMRSw-x3CNFfSdcG8DtDnPIM/s1600/Family.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I am the oldest of five now in my large family. The original divorce was back in the day when I was... seven? I think it was seven. And now It feels like it has been forever since the family has been stretched out across several houses. So to sum it up,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Me - Oldest brother, eccentric, clean.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Bro - 2nd oldest, artist, tennis player, too "cool" for my crazy antics. A neat guy none the less.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Sis - five years younger then me, and 3rd oldest, a cyclone of a mess, amazing pianist and singer.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Lil Bro - Technically step-bro, loves destruction, loud.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Lil Sis - Technically step-sis, shy, already learning how to manipulate people. </span><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">As for the parental units...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Step-Dad - Can build anything, very work oriented, efficient, kind.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Dad - Very fun, secret agent, likes things his way, got me into video games, acts younger then he is, will never understand how he and my actual mom got together.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Mom - Busy, super mom, healthy, busy busy, will never understand how she and my actual dad got together.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Step-Mom - Could be my older sister, played sonic (awesome), tormented by Lil Sis, acts older then she is, lots of fun, oh yeah; black.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Then there are my two closest friends.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Gabriel and Nyx.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Nyx being the one with the big gun and Gabriel being the one mid handstand. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Nyx is a complicated love interest of mine that remains an anomaly popping up over and over again through time. Though I love her dearly. Supportive and caring she always tries her hardest. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Gabriel is my best man and commonly referred to as my subconscious. The two of us have over time always crafted fun and wonderful stories together. Crazy, but in an awesome way, and secretly my gay lesbian crush. Which yes, makes no sense right now. But one day, one day, it will be clear.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This bearded man, who I constantly call Cyber, is a friend who I made over in college. A bit cynical and negative, he is always up to helping me out in a pinch. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The man trying to cut me in half with a laser would be Dr. Society. The persona of society itself and all its evil deeds. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">AND MORE! But for tonight, we shall stop here.</span></div>Mr. Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08743687025396337633noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3806278628832713944.post-83542503892662057522011-06-12T12:25:00.000-04:002011-06-12T12:25:52.705-04:00Movie Theatre Mayhem<div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I have a large family.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwGn55RKF05cQgU8hmY4PISkvUBCrMxXJY8QK3__SLdlHghtXlgUl8fMwbWPHOGK0MoiFuHQwS4A0Bt_Gt67tAE7qYp2T7EFGFFGDfKBGHpOW4Z0ZD5DaeMRSw-x3CNFfSdcG8DtDnPIM/s1600/Family.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwGn55RKF05cQgU8hmY4PISkvUBCrMxXJY8QK3__SLdlHghtXlgUl8fMwbWPHOGK0MoiFuHQwS4A0Bt_Gt67tAE7qYp2T7EFGFFGDfKBGHpOW4Z0ZD5DaeMRSw-x3CNFfSdcG8DtDnPIM/s1600/Family.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And I love them all very much.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But over the years a lot of stories have developed out of our time together. One I can remember quite well took place a number of years ago when we decided to go see a movie…<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Movies you see were a big family thing back in that day with my father and step mother. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcozph_8bB1Pdo_nugY-1-ngskrRf748O1npjWQsr3cKTNJmezftROhSlvsFPdWadJPDuOfUczijOIp7iLK8cJ_IgJbPlbSaKsP5zRY8UoliSl9DS18BaibwBwdhDMw07I7nz1BSPkccg/s1600/dad-and-shonte.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcozph_8bB1Pdo_nugY-1-ngskrRf748O1npjWQsr3cKTNJmezftROhSlvsFPdWadJPDuOfUczijOIp7iLK8cJ_IgJbPlbSaKsP5zRY8UoliSl9DS18BaibwBwdhDMw07I7nz1BSPkccg/s1600/dad-and-shonte.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We would often go and see some new movie out in theatres and have a great time. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But before we left there was always the little detail of treats that we wanted to take to the movies. After all everything is so expensive once you get inside. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Now on this particular occasion the family had amassed quite the cluster of confectionary treats. That is to say; we had a whole lot of candy.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEkXmNERTL8O40CqsYL1LXX6PoyPZ8nGbrZzMGj8efekX0gJO_e8KYXeTc-7E2hPOG0SLQZgiiwert4o1GuH_FYXuqUj6Ier6bU6PoGVO7ZqpTn9ghXrIQgF-UjfFn_URS2j9gHnsLvP4/s1600/sugar-bomb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEkXmNERTL8O40CqsYL1LXX6PoyPZ8nGbrZzMGj8efekX0gJO_e8KYXeTc-7E2hPOG0SLQZgiiwert4o1GuH_FYXuqUj6Ier6bU6PoGVO7ZqpTn9ghXrIQgF-UjfFn_URS2j9gHnsLvP4/s1600/sugar-bomb.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">An entire brown paper bag so full of candy that it threatened to breach its thin barriers and let loose a torrent of sugar that would make any dentist cry. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I was very excited.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So we travel to the theatre, my disguise perfect to hide my candy.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A sweatshirt three sizes too big for me. My hands permanently fused into the pockets as they supported the tumor looking growth underneath that was the bag of candy. That or I was newly pregnant. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWPcvqXdpw9XvgJMyWHnC4qKDc8XpxOp23_VR_iXauaPpiOJoZPZLoRnwGJr9Hyaf-tqeR2PCr1sQGCGwx9mdpGGdg59HZ73zeH1KiG5W7FyzIGKH70RdmvTd-xmepOeH_A_iUoAmoAIA/s1600/what-candy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWPcvqXdpw9XvgJMyWHnC4qKDc8XpxOp23_VR_iXauaPpiOJoZPZLoRnwGJr9Hyaf-tqeR2PCr1sQGCGwx9mdpGGdg59HZ73zeH1KiG5W7FyzIGKH70RdmvTd-xmepOeH_A_iUoAmoAIA/s1600/what-candy.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Most delicious baby ever.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But the best part of the story is next as we arrive to the movie theatre only to find the movie we want sold out, and nothing else really caught our fancy. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So my family decides that walking around the mall the theatre is in would be a fun substitute. Me, still stuck, looking like I have a beer belly before I have even hit high school. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I am violently nudging my father as we start walking away from the theatre in attempts to express how very NOT OK I was with the current plan. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And then directly in front of a glass pane fronted fancy looking restaurant my hands slipped. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDBYj4WxgGxCu5gQp7few1feY9FOJnRNNjFJIFcumO_YbXWc4upl_9CdzW80uhjDVlypiItdwOd1WGMxmZESCT5ZUKPcEpS5PGNfrX0m-RhatuFGqoAyM7C1moa9EzGD45MnjMdgb913Y/s1600/sugarboom.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDBYj4WxgGxCu5gQp7few1feY9FOJnRNNjFJIFcumO_YbXWc4upl_9CdzW80uhjDVlypiItdwOd1WGMxmZESCT5ZUKPcEpS5PGNfrX0m-RhatuFGqoAyM7C1moa9EzGD45MnjMdgb913Y/s1600/sugarboom.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">That bag exploded like a stick a grenade. Candy shrapnel was everywhere. It splashed up to the people in the restaurant; it jumped over the balcony onto the people below. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I was experiencing candy in places I had never experienced candy before and it was not pleasant. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I then noticed that I was surprisingly alone in this epicenter of cavities. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My family was running at max speed as far away from me as they could. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My father ran so fast he may as well have sat down with people in the restaurant and acted surprised with them. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I didn’t even find my sister and step mother till I walked all the way down to the first floor to see them standing in a candy store of all things. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 115%;">So I don't usually have </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 21px;">abandonment</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 115%;"> issues. But every now and then, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">especial</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 115%;"> when candy in involved, it happens. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhTWTnttmyFV2O6BZ8AdvbKmPBR9Kp4ndvBgjox1W-HUDcVAziPI-3K6HaqoY0lObjf9gkC9R_Qsm80PGRZuTFyy67ry5htlyPAO7f6qX2XHoZPppRB1s7xD12wR7Ruuf5agMDaw1bhnE/s1600/abandoned.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhTWTnttmyFV2O6BZ8AdvbKmPBR9Kp4ndvBgjox1W-HUDcVAziPI-3K6HaqoY0lObjf9gkC9R_Qsm80PGRZuTFyy67ry5htlyPAO7f6qX2XHoZPppRB1s7xD12wR7Ruuf5agMDaw1bhnE/s1600/abandoned.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div>Mr. Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08743687025396337633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3806278628832713944.post-26922218069306260402011-06-03T22:04:00.003-04:002011-07-04T15:27:51.955-04:00The Night I Died<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"></span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The “Outer Reach” was by no means a luxurious hotel. I woke up feeling certain I was dirtier simply for spending the night in the place. It was as if the walls and ceiling had slowly decayed onto my exposed face all night. I tried to wipe the invisible mask of grime from my face with my hands, only my hands were no better and left me with nothing but a cold chill running down my spine. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I finally got around to sitting up when a pair of arms holding me tight decided to keep me in place. Nicole, how I love her, I’d risk everything for her and back again. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“You know I’m not running away or anything, I’d just like to go take a shower.” I whispered in her ear. Slowly her eyes fluttered to life. The drowsy sort of life, the I’d be asleep for another three hours if you hadn’t done anything sort of life. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“mmmmmmmm….” Is all that left her lips as she pulled me closer to her and redoubled her efforts to keep me in place. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“Good morning to you to.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Nicole only responded with a yawn and a readjustment of her head in the pillows. How she can be alright in a place this revolting I’ll never understand. Though I guess I always had a bit more of a bone to pick on cleanliness. “May I shower please?” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“No.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“Ah, she speaks! Wonderful.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“Stay next to me.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“What, are showers evil now?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“They are not next to me.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“Your perception of the truth is flawless as always princess. May I please get up now?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“What is in it for me?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“Um, nothing? At the moment?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“Not worth it.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“Please?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“Nope.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“I will make you let go.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“You’re bluffing.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“Not at all.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“I dare you to try.” And so I did. Really it was no test of strength. I was the stronger one. What was tricky about it was simply a kiss, or a whole slew of kisses.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I had only just begun to try and pry her away when she slipped her arms out from around me and used them to climb up me towards my lips. She tasted like strawberries. Strawberries and chocolate, her most popular and delicious tastes. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“You taste delicious today.” Nicole said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“Do I? I was just thinking the same thing about you.” Nicole’s hands ran along the curves of my body. She was so warm. She ran her hands through my hair; my too long hair that I really needed to cut. I looked far better with shoulder length hair then this knotted debacle down my back. And the last thing I got through to her was a smile.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Then the glass broke.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>I felt my chest rock forward.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 7;"> </span>And finally the distant gunshot.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I looked down to see a pristine little hole just above my right breast. I was confused. I looked up at Nicole to see she had a little hole in her too. Right over her heart. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">And then, I panicked. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I couldn’t breathe. My mouth constantly tried to ram words out of my throat but my voice was gone. Only squeaks escaped. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Then the blood started. Bleeding, so much blood; Mine, Nicole’s, I didn’t even know. I started to cry. Huge tears fell out of me like my blood. I was not breathing, only gasping screaming in tears. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Pressure on the wound</span></i><span style="line-height: 115%;"> suddenly popped into my head. I grabbed all the sheets I could and lay On Nicole’s wound. She wasn’t moving. Her eyes were open, mouth agape. But I didn’t stop. I pushed harder. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“Help!” I screamed. “Someone help me, please!” Her back. Nicole’s back. My hand slipped across her skin with all the fresh blood. No hole. There was no hole in her back. The bullet was still inside her. Was that a good thing? Or a bad thing? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The hospital, </span></i><span style="line-height: 115%;">my next thought. I grabbed the bedside phone from the bedside table and dialed 911 as fast as my shaking hands could.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“911 what’s your emergency?” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“…” No words. No words! Why was it so hard to talk? I had to tell her what the problem was!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“Sh- ot.” Was all I could get across. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“Please remain calm. There are police units and an ambulance on their way. Is there anything you can tell me about your situation?” I had to focus. Nicole’s life was on the line. I had to pull myself together!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“Shot, through- through the window.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“Are there any other people in the room with you?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“Nicole. Shot through the heart.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“Are you injured?” I looked down at myself, phone lying in the croon between my head and shoulder, hands pressing on Nicole’s heart like some failed CPR attempt, and my own bullet hole.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“Yes.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“Have you also been shot?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“Ye-“ but I could not say any more. I was out of words. Blood filled the back of my mouth.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Then the police hammered down the door. One of the officers ran over to me. He was talking to me, but I didn’t hear anything. I liked his face though. I could see it in his eyes, he cared.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">“</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">Did I save her?” I said, gesturing at Nicole with my head.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not sure, but I think I could just make out from his lips,</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in;"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“You did fine.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I woke up in the hospital with a terrible headache. Opening my eyes I was greeted with tubes all around me and plenty of pointy things that make me squeamish. Even worse, they were <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">inside</b> me. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">A nurse was at the door. She had this broad grin on her face. She immediately turned tale and ran off screaming for some doctor or another. I just wanted everything to stop spinning. I tried getting up, but all the needles inside me pulled in protest; so I stayed put. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">A doctor showed up. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A Dr. Jenkins. He started talking very fast and I really didn’t take any of it in. I was strangely sleepy. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">For days I sat like that, lots of people showing up. News reporters, other doctors, my family even. I was certain I’d never see them again after they kicked me out of the house for declaring myself a lesbian. I guess getting shot makes me important enough to see again. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">But I didn’t talk to any of them. My sleepy haze left me unsure of what was a dream and what was reality. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I felt so weak. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Eventually they got me up and moving. I was in a wheelchair for a while. Fresh air was nice.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">One day the nurse was pushing me through the many hallways of the hospital. She had taken a liking to talking to me. Not that I ever said anything back. Maybe that is why she liked me so much; she did have an awful lot to say.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“You know they are awfully worried about you. Not talking for ten days now.” Ten days? I had been here ten days? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“Where is… she?” My silence was over. I looked up at the nurse, who was quite surprised by my sudden decision to talk.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“Oh dear, do you not remember?” Do I not remember? I didn’t remember much of anything let alone any actually useful information.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“Where is she?” I was raising my voice, though it was parched and dry. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“Dear I don’t think.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“Where is she?” I was gripping the nurse’s hand now with what little strength I possessed. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“She had already passed away by the time the ambulance arrived…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in;"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I cried. I just outright cried, harder then I had ever cried before. I fell out of my wheelchair, ripping all the IV’s from my body in the process. Little pools of blood ran from their now open gateways to the floor outside my body. I screamed. There were no words, only noises. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I still visit her grave whenever I get a chance. I got better. I healed up nicely at the hospital. They tell me my heart should be about as strong as it ever was. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">They never did find out who shot the two of us; though leading suspicions leave me as anything but the primary target. I always told her that she talked too loud online. But I guess when you make a living off of your writing you can always expect touchy topics to keep food on the table. And you know? Those touchy topics still paid for my food for months. Always looking out for me I guess.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I wasn’t sure if I would love anyone ever again. But I met someone a few years ago who helped me a lot. We just decided to have a child together. I’ve decided to carry her. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She should be born sometime in July.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have decided to name her Emma.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">EMMA MARTIN<br />
FEB 07, 1992 – MAY 23 2011<br />
“You changed my whole life <br />
and I’ll always love you for it.”<br />
-Your Princess</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">----------------------</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 115%;">What did you think? I worked really hard on it, though all things </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 21px;">considered</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 115%;"> it could likely use more editing. Let me know what you think! I love the feedback, and I'm really curious about how many of you actually got the big reveal in the story there near the end.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 115%;">I actually had this whole story as a dream while I was sick with pneumonia and a fever of 104.5.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Me and my crazy <a href="http://findalittlesilverlining.blogspot.com/2011/02/sick-dreams.html">sick dreams </a>right?</span></span><br />
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</span></span></div>Mr. Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08743687025396337633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3806278628832713944.post-30339619149117105692011-05-27T09:21:00.001-04:002011-05-27T09:29:47.755-04:00My Teeth Are Like High School<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">My teeth are like high school because it's not about how well you do. It's about how little you mess up. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It's not "Yay I brushed my teeth!"</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It's "<b><i>F&*$!</i></b> I forgot to floss!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Cavity?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Great failed my test.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Root Canal?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I think I just failed Science...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Do I have to repeat a year now?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I don't even know what that means in this metaphor.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">And braces? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Slapped on when I am far too young to understand that my actions have consequences larger then maybe a year at most. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Don't real~ly follow the directions.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">GPA too low to get into College I wanted.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I mean teeth are messed up for rest of life. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">he he... yeah....... that's the real problem here...</span>Mr. Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08743687025396337633noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3806278628832713944.post-67416580168845278492011-05-20T20:27:00.000-04:002011-05-20T20:27:33.233-04:00Careful my Bite is Worse Then My Bark<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Confidence, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Self-confidence</i>. What a melodramatic façade of a goal in a person’s life. Begrudgingly tearing myself limb from limb to reach for this so called “goal.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll scoff at myself in blind disregard to my own humility. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span>How eagerly we climb, I climb, towards that confidence, and for what? A grand fortress of wood to be burned down by the next passerby with a single spark! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Forgive my negative expression, but the cataclysm of recent events leaves me ghastly and exhausted, while not more than a husk of my former self at the moment. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihDaEnqqVzrc_9V0HaDvNbXPwqJCq9xGnj0y6eHSgmk8q2BrACZX0MFgGNKsnnrC7kC4KKnS71T0GY4zCGlC7hg0yg0rzTlArJuSAqD5OTSHRCUsSdCzJ6Dxp1UfApSEOPgnjPfL7fAYM/s1600/Rant---3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihDaEnqqVzrc_9V0HaDvNbXPwqJCq9xGnj0y6eHSgmk8q2BrACZX0MFgGNKsnnrC7kC4KKnS71T0GY4zCGlC7hg0yg0rzTlArJuSAqD5OTSHRCUsSdCzJ6Dxp1UfApSEOPgnjPfL7fAYM/s1600/Rant---3.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Yet a promise is different, a promise I must keep. A slave to this societal thrill I've constructed, this "blog" of stories hoping to make a life out of a dream where I don't actually have to get a job like a normal person.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> The few morals that keep my tethered down I must uphold for fear of the sheer chaos that would be left of myself were I to lose the last of my chains. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Riddles and metaphors is that all I’m good for? Happy as I ever get, or destructively tearing down my own life as I am now all I spew out of my mouth are riddles and metaphors. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>But what does it matter?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It is clear that despite all my hard work on this my words will go unread by a so called audience! 5,000 page views, how impressive! And yet? I’ve nothing for it but a slew of poorly constructed paraprapghs and enough stick figures to fill an album twice over. Sorry, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Glorified</i> stick figures. Because for some reason I had to be above such docile things as “stick figures.” God forbid I am stuck in that crowd. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOsx42HV3znAeQZ2nz3hbwugHghstxv-CPdyqTZBp2Yc8rMCCRkON_-uw1rvl4mQgWvvHz-ZtXfD-AinwHbgsZplFH71ziDIIGVzxhj-vmdq4C476mN8yHwWxad1Xu9bN1Ldq9GHG1pv4/s1600/Rant---2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOsx42HV3znAeQZ2nz3hbwugHghstxv-CPdyqTZBp2Yc8rMCCRkON_-uw1rvl4mQgWvvHz-ZtXfD-AinwHbgsZplFH71ziDIIGVzxhj-vmdq4C476mN8yHwWxad1Xu9bN1Ldq9GHG1pv4/s1600/Rant---2.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I ramble. I ramble on and on. For what? Nothing. A new approach maybe? Funny not good enough for the world? Cleaver not good enough still? How about angry? I don’t need a lie like self-confidence for that one. I can just spout off all the nonsense I think up and how sad I am with the world, the people in it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A lot of people become a success online for that. Can I join them? Not likely. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Why?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Because I’m just a shy little boy trying to act big and tough in an adult world where I constantly feel alone because everyone else seems so damned competent in comparison to me. “But Josh, you can do so many things! You can sword fight, and act, and—“<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I’ll shut you up there! What do those skills make me? Hm? How on earth will I market those skills to the world today? Me? An actor? The stress would implode my brain before I scarcely began such a trip! <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">No idea what that is supposed to be, but I made a sound that used those letters and was just bursting at the seams with emotions. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I’ll have a guest post next week. Give me some time to collect my head. My poor little exploded head; so I can get over myself and hopefully move on. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Because at the end of the day being myself wins me nothing. Being a character from a story? Living my life like some giant game? That wins me everything. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Everyone likes someone who is self confidant. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Everyone but me I guess,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">They didn’t plan on that one when they started saying that. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px; line-height: 24px;"><br />
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</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>There are already more panels up everyone!</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>New every day, </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Check it out on its official page located on the pages bar above, or, use this handy dandy link.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://findalittlesilverlining.blogspot.com/p/red-and-black.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>http://findalittlesilverlining.blogspot.com/p/red-and-black.html</b></span></a></div>Mr. Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08743687025396337633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3806278628832713944.post-657482181124808522011-05-06T00:21:00.000-04:002011-05-06T00:21:32.800-04:00Coming Soon...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Ello Everyone. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I got into another of my art-y moods again, you may remember what happened last time, and I made this.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis2YuCIRJA5WOD9REpBAUNwq4mqn2FbMhNcT1Q3BwrdmEZ5mA4ipfu8EniaomrnIOJEYxw-jrk46q4Rd_iCTNORQ9xE72EVBlXbFwZCksShjNgKlMi4_TaqJAr7lRPaQWscDptuFDHNYk/s1600/No-Profile-Cover-take-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis2YuCIRJA5WOD9REpBAUNwq4mqn2FbMhNcT1Q3BwrdmEZ5mA4ipfu8EniaomrnIOJEYxw-jrk46q4Rd_iCTNORQ9xE72EVBlXbFwZCksShjNgKlMi4_TaqJAr7lRPaQWscDptuFDHNYk/s400/No-Profile-Cover-take-1.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I accept that the picture itself is complete and awful sh%$. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I get that, I say it a lot myself.</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLA2wD4aOXI1pa-15z_Bzo-i07MX035QA_lD98qAhAD7bnuNY7LDQ5cGCl-0Qf_i8fz7aX8AuZvKBcSWgyRAGVW-daVtZC0LZNYZSAXkbk36Ldn5gZZ57ridLGIz7yS-tNVxiNoei0nXg/s1600/No-Profile-Cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLA2wD4aOXI1pa-15z_Bzo-i07MX035QA_lD98qAhAD7bnuNY7LDQ5cGCl-0Qf_i8fz7aX8AuZvKBcSWgyRAGVW-daVtZC0LZNYZSAXkbk36Ldn5gZZ57ridLGIz7yS-tNVxiNoei0nXg/s320/No-Profile-Cover.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">But this? This part, I am happy with. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Say Hello to Lisa everyone, theoretically you will be seeing more of her soon. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Why is that?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Well that is because this summer I hope to really open up on how much work I do for this site, for myself, for a lot really.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I want to start two separate web-comics to do as well as my weekly posts.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Lisa is the protagonist of my single panel comic titled "No Profile,"</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">You might have caught onto that with the awful picture above. It is an adventure of romance, relationships, shy girls, stuffed bears, heart apples, and zombies.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The other comic is called "Red and Black." A return of my classic glorified stick figure style; an adventure of love, symbolic connections, opposing colors, swords, boxes, perspective, and zombies.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Really, I just end up adding zombies to everything I make sooner or later. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">But hey,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It sells. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Regardless take note now, I plan to do MORE! Not that I ever really did less then most people, or that this is to be better then other people; I am going to do more then I do. A very challenging battle. Ever time I get an advantage my opposition has a trick up his sleeve. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Seriously though, my plan is to take this internet niche of mine to a whole new level. I want to go pro baby. Not, drop my job, hate my life when things are not perfect, eat nothing but ramen, live off my friends, ruin life.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">No, this is more like adopting a second job. I just want to try my hardest at this. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">And if I make it?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I cannot even fathom how amazing that would be. Tell stories? For a living? My lord, my goodness, my everything, dreams are made of that. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I want to draw more, I want to write poems, I want to expand to you tube, I want to get to the top lists of Reddit; I want to prove I can be a success.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Because I'm a character Ladies and Gentlemen. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I live a life people can read about.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">And I like it that way.</span>Mr. Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08743687025396337633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3806278628832713944.post-17573287184773500482011-04-29T00:00:00.000-04:002011-04-29T00:00:28.442-04:00Sword Fighting Girl<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Little known fact; I’m a sword fighter.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQgvOFS3dWZlcRNumxOztazUy0SOwBqIG5-2nXAGnkHx9u-URQY5-PzW4RM7uTJDllSF5r51BeMSzTwWcbflW2tkaWT9Efys9uG5W6UstyOMRiQmfPFGv-5sy-6eDqTXa6uM4b9TyLxcs/s1600/sword-girl-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQgvOFS3dWZlcRNumxOztazUy0SOwBqIG5-2nXAGnkHx9u-URQY5-PzW4RM7uTJDllSF5r51BeMSzTwWcbflW2tkaWT9Efys9uG5W6UstyOMRiQmfPFGv-5sy-6eDqTXa6uM4b9TyLxcs/s1600/sword-girl-1.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I can actually fight with just about anything, years and years of training and all that. Swords are just my favorite. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji5fWjy-DAv8kHncNHZLnp0X2V4ph2EHjhqMLK91PH6reHkfuYitbfGzl4jFyhn6uVC8FF1HXZbHs7It-mw3SqUQcebuJZdOhUhVVNZgtCXbhelZiphyphenhyphenaa9cfANCxS1r6wLG9T1u-d0lw/s1600/sword-girl-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji5fWjy-DAv8kHncNHZLnp0X2V4ph2EHjhqMLK91PH6reHkfuYitbfGzl4jFyhn6uVC8FF1HXZbHs7It-mw3SqUQcebuJZdOhUhVVNZgtCXbhelZiphyphenhyphenaa9cfANCxS1r6wLG9T1u-d0lw/s1600/sword-girl-2.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I’m not the best ever, but I can seriously kick some ass when I need to. Case and point, my <a href="http://findalittlesilverlining.blogspot.com/2011/04/so-this-is-what-bullying-is-like.html">last week’s post</a>, and that was unarmed. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">But this is not a post about me kicking butt, quite the contrary, this is a post about how awesome it would be to have my butt kicked. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I was just talking to my good man Gabriel when we started a lovely discussion about how I would find it amazing if a girl bested me in sword fighting. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I can see it now,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It would be love at first disarm.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJQ4A3W_sAtoSZiLE87LwFDUH4NHI1QuRJPuZikmCT9rSDtzaiiWVETlI8Ms1nHTMUW24rOR4swQmt73-7Ea2XjMMdH2qiAYQ_ygzqnigqpyeUuTfy9fZmmg7pJ4nYtFt9CH3WHIemoI4/s1600/sword-girl-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJQ4A3W_sAtoSZiLE87LwFDUH4NHI1QuRJPuZikmCT9rSDtzaiiWVETlI8Ms1nHTMUW24rOR4swQmt73-7Ea2XjMMdH2qiAYQ_ygzqnigqpyeUuTfy9fZmmg7pJ4nYtFt9CH3WHIemoI4/s1600/sword-girl-3.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Or dis-arm.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWI94VVK2cvaOczQVyOx6y6hKpOv3MRe8V4WOOZ9nyyE5PQ4mNbvlkgkJx4t-XYWaL4nwoBhIHEc7dz2_hUBrtrVutgcjRnCyfMrkhQK0DOB8c2mXtamml7G5i7zUxUSowsdz5e5wc9pk/s1600/sword-girl-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWI94VVK2cvaOczQVyOx6y6hKpOv3MRe8V4WOOZ9nyyE5PQ4mNbvlkgkJx4t-XYWaL4nwoBhIHEc7dz2_hUBrtrVutgcjRnCyfMrkhQK0DOB8c2mXtamml7G5i7zUxUSowsdz5e5wc9pk/s1600/sword-girl-4.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Either way I have likely lost the battle.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I’ve dueled a good many people in my life. Won a lot of them, lost a good number of them as well. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">But I’ve never lost to a girl. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Losing a sword fight to a girl, instant crush, and more than a wee bit sexy I might add. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-UCDoAxKwVL8eqLObIcYo2f2br_6u6KCrisjJ9e4Zyj-cOzkMxRRYkk0hZ46NGjhcvESWMX2Ep6Zm63sINcoC-iyogQtuhw4gG4ly5ZzKHYQATFEKR6wAJyfk3wVDxe4ZvPHME_D4sTE/s1600/sword-girl-5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-UCDoAxKwVL8eqLObIcYo2f2br_6u6KCrisjJ9e4Zyj-cOzkMxRRYkk0hZ46NGjhcvESWMX2Ep6Zm63sINcoC-iyogQtuhw4gG4ly5ZzKHYQATFEKR6wAJyfk3wVDxe4ZvPHME_D4sTE/s1600/sword-girl-5.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The thing is so much of my self confidence- hell all of it – is built around my ego, which is built around my ability to do things well, which started when I figured out I was a gifted swordsman. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Gabriel then brought up a good point. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666;">“What if she beat you with something other than a sword?”</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“Well if she has a gun it’s not quite the same.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbKURf1qPnWUx_RJh6b-CfQigzzfP4Xz3xi-SBdHxQEi4JoUO4OkA5gevs1tu8pp926Qg7xoOBjZ5qJbYeLvRKUjxHs1CE0Vr1TmnSyMtZRF8t2UXa07ehGTWiXPbk2f-9FXG4yOcjb0Q/s1600/sword-girl-6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbKURf1qPnWUx_RJh6b-CfQigzzfP4Xz3xi-SBdHxQEi4JoUO4OkA5gevs1tu8pp926Qg7xoOBjZ5qJbYeLvRKUjxHs1CE0Vr1TmnSyMtZRF8t2UXa07ehGTWiXPbk2f-9FXG4yOcjb0Q/s1600/sword-girl-6.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“It also implies I’ve been shot.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666;">“No no, I mean like a bo staff or something.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicSi1C-XUwVsdMFB7pacE-r2bggqNejRMMkLe3uYJ9xoEANaZanMkVb6H8fp7O8SPoqjDZ4BprJW1Vpbf2WOqwNnTJ7nVCrIQBl_xPAjkYuctSappfP2B5FqTVgyDk3uNEw0mN2Aphzz4/s1600/sword-girl-8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicSi1C-XUwVsdMFB7pacE-r2bggqNejRMMkLe3uYJ9xoEANaZanMkVb6H8fp7O8SPoqjDZ4BprJW1Vpbf2WOqwNnTJ7nVCrIQBl_xPAjkYuctSappfP2B5FqTVgyDk3uNEw0mN2Aphzz4/s1600/sword-girl-8.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“That could work.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 115%;">“I </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">didn't</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 115%;"> mean anything like a gun.”</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“Yeah, guns do kind of kill the challenge curve, me being the challenge curve.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666;">“Orbital satellite laser?”</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN90ZQ9GLKvPltUTIfwV1ts-6xmSZM_hPILdCgWyBCL6u0HzjPDus9CYDnpL6NIPY6SDK6BMtOUEqGxl2W3S4nJG3nWa18fwhy7f2fie8r5xP3KOST303cezpb8YxHEdLh6Kk2wA58OKY/s1600/sword-girl-9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN90ZQ9GLKvPltUTIfwV1ts-6xmSZM_hPILdCgWyBCL6u0HzjPDus9CYDnpL6NIPY6SDK6BMtOUEqGxl2W3S4nJG3nWa18fwhy7f2fie8r5xP3KOST303cezpb8YxHEdLh6Kk2wA58OKY/s1600/sword-girl-9.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 115%;">wait... this seems </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">familiar</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 115%;">....</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Though that would explain the whole <a href="http://findalittlesilverlining.blogspot.com/2010/12/ive-been-struck-by-lightning.html">getting struck by lightning thing</a> a little bit.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Yeah!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">See family?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I was not being stupid. I was just trying to meet the girl of my dreams. I just said sword fight, she thought I said lightning fight.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I’m sure people make that mistake all the time.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>Mr. Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08743687025396337633noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3806278628832713944.post-4567763625974198462011-04-23T10:14:00.004-04:002011-04-23T18:25:16.374-04:00So This is what Bullying is Like<div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> I got through a good portion of my life without being bullied. So much so that I’d gotten it into my head that I would never have that experience.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQlDjph4ZA9JhudgDaszdhyc6YdjwOExypADTemjKxjHeLlLKESWuMO8NFonJNjDqxLAKWJcyGu1oWfEs2Ft4gNiJeTQh1ZSW_wCB51aa-J4e4COAHmxCFor3ub3jRvJR510M9vCJxcA8/s1600/bully---1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQlDjph4ZA9JhudgDaszdhyc6YdjwOExypADTemjKxjHeLlLKESWuMO8NFonJNjDqxLAKWJcyGu1oWfEs2Ft4gNiJeTQh1ZSW_wCB51aa-J4e4COAHmxCFor3ub3jRvJR510M9vCJxcA8/s1600/bully---1.jpg" /></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> I spoke too soon.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-cpqXeXI9-O0iEcZSbntCdcJgIxps3q0Uo0uDlsz_TCceiPTQYgAc-OhxhAqNbKDmqEer8mtugSQBLL1a3JyoVBgoJmnduYG3soE2Cp4VJbOl8nOCLq8fUM2V0UPdJJfwYTy_VUGeCXA/s1600/bully---2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-cpqXeXI9-O0iEcZSbntCdcJgIxps3q0Uo0uDlsz_TCceiPTQYgAc-OhxhAqNbKDmqEer8mtugSQBLL1a3JyoVBgoJmnduYG3soE2Cp4VJbOl8nOCLq8fUM2V0UPdJJfwYTy_VUGeCXA/s1600/bully---2.jpg" /></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> You may know I like to wear a <i><a href="http://findalittlesilverlining.blogspot.com/2011/01/i-wear-belts.html">collection of belts</a></i>. I’ve got a myriad of crazy accessories really. Fitting in is about as normal as a blue moon to me.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> “What’s with all those belts? Got an extra one for me?” - and of course this is said in the most rude and obnoxious fashion possible, while still offending the neurons trying to cope with the severe lack of intelligence in this conversation. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjJd8wdhibtNmo5NOOQM4yUUTPc0WJVAY54VLUP5DcRzoIhftnq4xCnByxJUg176N20x4QjuZSNpRzHSOgyQPN_HptsMTDmcAFE9iYHmThvbtweZ8Rx2ENO6FxVWv2sDTGLM50a0IU3ME/s1600/bully---3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjJd8wdhibtNmo5NOOQM4yUUTPc0WJVAY54VLUP5DcRzoIhftnq4xCnByxJUg176N20x4QjuZSNpRzHSOgyQPN_HptsMTDmcAFE9iYHmThvbtweZ8Rx2ENO6FxVWv2sDTGLM50a0IU3ME/s1600/bully---3.jpg" /></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“<i>Move please</i>.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“come on, I just want one…”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> My mind was frantic with the realization that this was <i>bullying</i>; No wonder people did not like it, it felt awful. They backed me up into a corner and threw verbal abuse after verbal abuse. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> Then things got ugly. I guess my lack of response to there taunts rather rubbed the guy the wrong way, because he tried to punch me in the face. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“I just want one!” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4qi_h69bTtDitmQ074W1U1NAVXoOej5eaZdPZ17eoVdE0NgtCOVICZq9FdzGomRkQALaX5oOA1KUR9T7Ycy5r5cZzo4KssXFyCGhsHEwSOipbAGbmUUrPD8kAwf8pe5x6FQYPoc_ef5U/s1600/bully---4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4qi_h69bTtDitmQ074W1U1NAVXoOej5eaZdPZ17eoVdE0NgtCOVICZq9FdzGomRkQALaX5oOA1KUR9T7Ycy5r5cZzo4KssXFyCGhsHEwSOipbAGbmUUrPD8kAwf8pe5x6FQYPoc_ef5U/s1600/bully---4.jpg" /></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Not that i was going to allow that to happen.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Then I threw him on the ground.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> Which only lead to his friend getting all upset and trying to grab me.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> I don't know what it is with fights and people trying to grab each other, the though of grabbing one of these guys never once crossed my mind.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The guy then punched me in the arm.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This lead immediately to our little Darth Vader moment.</span><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> Then I left.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I was horrified by the idea that the other two would jump into the fray and I would get my ass kicked by these four douche bags. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> But all and all I was lucky. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Those other two were pansies. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">And those four chose the wrong guy to mess with.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Moral of the story; bullying sucks.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Lesson to be learned; don’t dick around with a guy wearing multiple belts.</span></div>Mr. Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08743687025396337633noreply@blogger.com2