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Dave Shaffer
Age: 22
Gender: Male
Location: Mansfield, PA
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Desiderata

1927 Max Erhmann

Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons,
they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain and bitter;
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.

Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs;
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals;
and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself.
Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love;
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment
it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.

You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be,
and whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.
independizzence dizzle
Wednesday. 7.6.05 9:03 am
I'll sum it up in a sentence: I didn't do anything for the 4th of July except enjoy a day off of work and be pissed that I had to take Sarah home at the butt crack of dawn instead of getting to spend more time.

But the weekend was awesome. Before I write about it, I feel I need to preface this whole thing with Sarah Lincoln is one of the best girlfriends a guy could ask for, and Joel Ciaccio is one of the best friends a guy could have.

So, after work on Friday, I drove to Ulysses to get Sarah. En route to her house, my car starts fucking up. Like, just having a temper tantrum really. It would fire, it would not fire, blah blah. I'm determined to make this the most abbreviated version of the story yet (sorry Sarie, haha), so long story short, the car stalled. A guy came and helped me, and we did some remedial repairs I thought it needed (specifically oil), and I was wrong. Then the guy was twiddling with my engine and found a loose connection, and when he plugged it back in, the car worked fine. So I was like shit, I'm a dumbass. Then I went on my way.

Picked up Sarah, we drove back to my house, and we were there for like an hour or something, then we drove down to Thrad's and picked him up. Went to Staples and totally pissed around inside the store. I mean, we were RETARDS. And it was FRIGGIN FUN! I must say that I love practicing judo on Sarah when she's not expecting it. There's nothing like the look on someone's face when they have been ippon seoi nage for no reason. Then she punches me and that's fun too because for a chick, she hits hard.

We hit up Sheetz and then headed back to Thrad's place for a bit, and saw his mom who is looking well after the surgery. Then Sarah, T-rad and I all talked for a while and it was the usual dose of good times and absolutely awful things said in the most matter-of-fact tones. I can't even remember like anything we said because it was all a blur of "your mom" jokes and laughing like fools. Or picking on Sarah. Every girl needs to get picked on hard sometimes. :)

About 11:00, Thrad decided he was gonna "be a faggot" and "go to bed" so he could "get up early" and "go to work tomorrow," so Sarah and I took off after fisting him and his goat one last time. When she and I got back to the house, we were just completely wiped out, so we went straight to bed.

Saturday morning, we slept in. Till like friggin 12. It was absolutely awesome. Sarah makes a great bedmate because we both really love sleeping. And I don't remember a thing we did on Saturday except sleep and hang out in my room and eat. I think I may have gone down and grandstanded on the piano or something. And we ate at Doc's, as we always tend to do. Doc's is such a great place.

And I think Sunday was the same thing. I am totally convinced we did something, but I can't remember. A super cute thing happened though: Sarah and my mom spent like an hour curled on the couch together looking at baby pictures of me, Kat, and Charlie. They totally bonded and it was absolutely adorable.

Ahh Sarah. She gets along with everyone in my family so damn well. They all like her so much and I just beam whenever anybody says anything because I like her too. All my friends dig her because she's a great party companion, and she picks on me a lot, which all my friends love seeing because I pick on all of them a lot so it's good that I get a taste of my own medicine sometimes.

This relationship is still in its infancy, and so I'm sure a part of what I'm feeling right now is the new-love fireworks that so many songwriters and poets write about as definitive proof of God Almighty. And so in that sense it is very exciting. But sometimes I feel like there are things I can't quite tell her yet and it makes me kind of sad, because I feel like I'm keeping secrets from her. However, the truth is while she is close to me and I care about her a lot, I don't know her as well as I do Joel, Thrad, or Chicken, and so she is not one of my best friends.

Yet.

I can really see this working out in a long-term way. I already decided at the outset of it that I wasn't going to want so much from her that if we ever parted ways it was ugly, because I have had my fill of that. And I decided that whatever I felt, I felt, and I wasn't going to try and convince myself otherwise. I think she trusts that about me. And I am coming around to trusting her, slowly. Naturally. And I love her unreservedly, which helps make a lot of it worthwhile.

As do the nights passed in flagrante delicto. *grin*

The only annoying thing that happened this past weekend was that her parents demanded that I bring her back to Mansfield at fucking 9:00 am on Monday, my day off! But I did and didn't complain too bad about it because not having the approval of the other side's parents is the beginning of the end. I like her folks anyway, even if her mom is completely OCD about keeping their house neat and her dad doesn't say anything, like ever.

After Sarah went home, I came back and just chilled for a bit and hung out with Joel later that evening, which was also a beautiful thing. Joel and I have been sticking to this ritual of going to the CHS bleachers and having a smoke or two while we talk about life and music and women, every night. And I hope that someday Sarah and I relate to each other as well as Joel and I do because it is just awesome. It's a friendship without bounds of explanation.

Then it was back to work on Tuesday. All in all the weekend gets a 10/10.
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Yep.
It's official. I definitely need to get my ass back up to PA, and soon. Even if it's just for a few days.
» Reizar on 2005-07-06 12:08:36

Dave, we were up in boston last year and were walkin go fenway in the freezing cold and we walked past your school, and i said wouldnt it be cool if we ran into you. but we didnt.
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