| the one and only; kieran murphy |
[Wed 11 Nov @ 1:15pm] |
People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, ( some not. ) |
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| Hello, 2011 |
[Mon 10 Jan @ 2:15pm] |
I’m wondering if this year will be any different than the last
I’ve thought about updating his blog several times over the last month but I suppose at some point it became rather pointless. So I’m just going to highlight a few things that pop to mind and as always I’m sure it’ll lead to something of substance.
Thanksgiving: Ollie drunk dialed me on Thanksgiving and from what I could make out in the background he’d thrown some type of party. I suppose we all have something to be thankful for, I think mine’s the fact I’m not in New York this year. I do miss the snow.
Christmas: A little girl asked if I was Santa while I was in the mall. She said I had the beard for it but if I was Santa, I must have been on a diet. I wasn’t quite sure how to respond to that, I suppose it was a compliant.
Christmas Morning: I spent preparing food at the shelter downtown, it honestly might be the most unselfish activity I do all year. I’ve often jokingly admitted, my volunteering started out as a way to pad my NYU application, but somewhere along the line it just became a habit. It’s probably best not to put too much thought into it. It’s less about how and why I began but what I’m doing now.
New Years: I don’t really have any New Year’s Resolutions this year, at least not anything that I’d hold with any real conviction. I think more than anything I have promises to keep on a personal level. Currently I’m in the final stages of editing this novel, which to put blunt has accounted for the last several years of my life. It’s a daunting prospect realizing it might be coming to an end and whatever it becomes will be judged as a whole. Another week and I’m off to New York, Final draft in hand. I’m pretty sure Ollie will find some structural problems; he’s notoriously hard to please. It’s strange, Oliver’s an absolute perfectionist where writing his concern, but the rest of his life is utter chaos. It’s enough to make me wonder why he’s my mentor, I don’t know if I’d want to model my life after his own. If for nothing else he’s on this third ex-wife, though for whatever failing he had in marriage at least one part of his life is exceeding expectations.
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