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pardon my dust. i'm turning it into glitter.

Hi, I'm Chris. If you subscribe to the MBTI, I'm an INFJ. I put myself through school for a seemingly useless English/Creative Writing degree, but writing is my passion and that's what I want to do when I grow up. Still figuring out what comes next, and pretty much everything else, so I'm feeling kinda adventurous. And yes, that's exactly how my OkCupid profile starts out. Why mess with a good thing, eh?

The site's a work in progress. I'll be adding content over time, and hopefully eventually it'll evolve into something halfway interesting. I'm glad you're still reading, though. Usually by this point I have to show a little skin to keep 'em interested.

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sorry... got distracted by that hot guy...


        so there's no way i'm going to try to catch up with the last five days in one post, so i'll just pick up where i left off and go from there, k? k. this last week has been crazy, though, and not really in a bad way. just a lot going on with the move and such. i was with friends every night and often during the day, too, then trying to pack in the off-times when i wasn't working. i got most of it done before my parents arrived yesterday to help me move, but we were still there for about three hours finishing packing and cleaning and loading up the cars and truck. not too bad. but now my stuff is all over their living room and dining room and basement and i'm trying to figure out what to keep in storage and what to unpack and where my clothes are, lol. i don't know how long i'll be here, either, so it's kind of a weird guessing game because i'll have to pack it all up again before too long.

       it was a good week, though, and i'm glad i had chances to hang out with several of my friends before leaving. there were several i missed, too, but i'll be back to visit sometime soon. thursday night we went out to soco, one of the three gay bars in columbia. it's a younger crowd but nicer bar. i was lubricated enough to try out the dance floor, and i felt like my dancing wasn't that bad so i must have been pretty lubricated. somewhere in there i was separated from my friends and ended up dancing with a really hot go-go boy from topeka named matt and we made out on the dance floor for about a half an hour before my friends dragged me away. i'm not sure why i let them, but i was glad they did, too. it was really hot, though, very new for me, and a dang good last experience in columbia.

       it feels a little funny just typing that, too. very random experience, yes?

       but i'm back home now, trying to get everything sorted. and things seem to be going well so far. it's all very strange, but i think it will be good.



day fourteen. talk about the cuteness of your pets.

       ok! poor hermes has been a trooper the last few days with his house getting all empty then taking a long car ride to a new house. his brother, buddy, lives here, though, and they've been playing like crazy, and hermes has been exploring his now much larger home and is really enjoying all the boxes to play with. he's crashed out on the bed right now since they didn't get much sleep last night (they had to have some brotherly reconnection), but he'll be running around soon enough. they prefer the upstairs (bit warmer) and you can hear them pounding around up there like a herd of tiny elephants.


my quilt, my mom's sheets. very mismatched and kinda ugly, but i was too tired last night to care.
and hermes always sleeps on the left side.



ripping stuff up...


       this whole posting every day thing is strange to me. it's been a very long time since i've done that. today was much like yesterday. got up late, walked my nine miles, showered, ate, then started in on some more pruning away all the dead things that have accumulated over the years. getting tired of tearing up old sensitive documents. anyone got a paper shredder i can borrow? anyway, looks like tomorrow will be much the same. i'm calling a friend about work after the move, so wish me luck there. trying to get back on at hy-vee for a bit until i work something else out. i'm hoping to get most of this finished by then so i can start getting things organized for packing and such. next week's going to be pretty busy because everyone wants to hang out, and i want to as well. gonna be weird. i am becoming more accustomed to the idea, though, little by little.



day five. your favorite quote.

       goodness. not a fan of these "favorite" things. i can never pick one. i love quotes, too. so, a random sampling:

"do or do not. there is no try." -- yoda

"it does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." -- j.k. rowling

"it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." -- antoine de saint-exupery

"what's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does." -- j.k. rowling

"do what you can, and confess frankly what you are unable to do; neither let your effort be shortened for fear of failure, nor your confession silenced for fear of shame." -- john ruskin

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at wit's end...

       haha. not a very witty pun, since i'll probably be the only one to get it, but it made me laugh and that's all that matters. anyway, i'm mostly entirely moved in. still a few straggling items left in the old apartment, but the new one is shaping up nicely. well, it sort of shaped up for a little while then growth suddenly leveled off as i've been tackling this online class, which i need to have finished, including taking the final, by 2pm tomorrow. i took the mid-term today. that took two hours and six pages of hand-cramping essay writing, after which i came home and plopped down on my futon and read for eight hours straight. i'm currently working on the written portions, of which i have about nine pages left to complete before studying for my final and taking it tomorrow at noon. heh. i am chris, king of procrastination.

       and king of messes. i've had a mess in my apartment, which i really like, by the way (the apartment, not the mess), for so long, it seems, that i'm actually starting to become comfortable with it, but at the same time i'm kinda wondering, in a fearful sort of way, whether the mess of boxes (mostly books) and suitcases and various items strewn about the rooms will ever go away. and if i'll ever get back to my former apartment to claim the mess of clothes and junk still there. 2pm tomorrow seems like a very long time from now. i'm currently drinking lots of cold tea to prevent it from coming sooner than i want it to. but i want it to be over. because then i'll be done and i can officially graduate. yay! ok, need to get back to work. later!

five days, eighteen hours, thirty-eight minutes, and twenty-three seconds...

       that's how long my mp3s would play. and yet i know that doesn't even come close to some of yours out there. how long will your music play? i'm curious. a buddy of mine just sent me a bunch of gordon lightfoot songs in preparation for the concert in a few weeks. looking forward to it--he's an awesome songwriter.

       told you the posting influx wouldn't last long. haha. i'm back in como as of tonight. took a load over to the new apartment earlier, but i'm back at the duplex trying to pack as much as i can before my mom and dad get here tomorrow with the truck, expecting to move everything over. i think i've figured out where everything's going to go, but i'll probably switch it around a few times before i'm satisfied. i have so much junk. it's not funny.

       went to an awesome bbq last night. it was nice to remember that i have friends other than the ones i've spent the last three years with. i mean friends from a previous lifetime that are still my friends. those are always nice to have. had a really good time. except an hour before i was supposed to be there i decided to check my invitation to see if i was supposed to bring anything. i was. the host is a really good friend of mine that had told me about it all already, so when i got the invite i kinda glanced at it and put it aside. his wife used to live with my family, so she knows all about my love of making desserts and requested i make one. haha. so in one hour i made a chocolate cake with a raspberry filling and chocolate icing. i was rather proud of it. made a mess of the kitchen, though.

       so, anyway, i'm happy to be back. once i get somewhat settled i'll tell you all about the new place and my high hopes for it. right now, though, i should pack. i rather liked this movie, but read many negative reviews and heard from a few friends that they didn't. what'd you all think? later.

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