The Diary of Antoine Roquentin

tempus fugit

Month: December, 2008

please tell me this is the last Christmas at my grandma’s house

Woke up to the sound of Grammie screaming about who-knows-what for hours upon hours. At about four, the real part of my family finally showed up. Kathleen, Kelly, and I had to make an alcohol run to get through the holiday. Kelly got wine, I got champagne. We sat at the dinner table, both of [...]

got my scores back today

96th percentile. Not bad.

strangely isolated place

Jean Seberg is only famous because of Godard. A Strangely Isolated Place is an okay work of shoegaze. Couldn’t motivate myself to download porn, I ended up searching the forums for people who live in Sacramento, this one guy wrote a pretty depressing summation of the “scene” here. Watched the first few episodes of Enterprise…I’d [...]

daytime so absent-minded

I took my last final today. But before that, I had to discover that our washing machine is broken again. Yet another visible manifestation of my grandma’s mental deterioration. I heard that she wandered away from the house while I was at work Monday, and some stranger dropped her off at the house. After class, [...]

when you sleep

Today feels like reality is slipping apart and I can see into the seams. Having spontaneous conversations with the checkout people at the Co-Op and Emigh makes the world seem unbalanced. Put in a full eight hours at work, did some cool stuff, but didn’t work on the thing that I was supposed to work [...]