mood: odd music: 'boys don't cry' by the cure

i just can't seem to settle myself, lately. it feels like i'm pis.sed off at one point, then i feel really smug and confident, then as the day goes on i sink into a temporary depression. i swear it's something about school.

speaking of which i just wrote a paper for my short fiction class, and i'm really happy with how it turned out. i ended up using a metaphor between a short-short story and an espresso. i really do love metaphors, especially when they link on more than one level. i can't think of any others right now, so i won't try to make more examples.

on monday, my car gave out again. i was driving home on the freeway with my friends after having eaten lunch with them. we were talking about some arbitrary topic when suddenly i noticed there was a greyish smoke coming out from the crevices in the hood. i pulled over and took a peek. the coolant hose was leaking. hooray. so i called 'aaa', but gave them some pretty bad directions. (it's a long story; let's just say i was off by four miles...) during the course of our wait, 3 people stopped to see if we needed help. a car full of our friends on their way home from their school, the father of a friend's family friend, and some lady who spotted our 'loyola' t-shirts and said her son went to school with us. after about an hour, the tow truck guy found us and we had to squeeze 3 people + tow truck guy into the cab of the truck. that was an interesting ride. my car just can't die forever, though. it just gets back up. my dad got someone to fix it and i drove it to salvation army the next day after school. my car is either jesus or a zombie, i can't decide which resurrected figure to choose yet.

ok, i'm going to make a conscious effort to write songs this weekend. i'm going to follow through and just do it. i think we've got a head start already, we've managed to write a lot of random riffs lately, and now all i have to do is develop them. focus. channel. regroup. breathe. focus. channel. regroup. breathe.

---Goei---