Archive for the tag 'Allison'

Feb 14 2008

For Allison

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You Complete Me

Happy Valentine’s Day.

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Oct 31 2006

I would do anything *four* love

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Allison and I outside the theatre

On the 28th of October, my girlfriend, Allison, and I celebrated our fourth year together (see writeups for our third and second; the first predates this blog). What began sixth months ago as the vague intentions of going to see something on…

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Sep 27 2006

Go Western, young man!

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Disclosure • This blog entry deals with a lot of people and a lot of places. Although nothing I could divulge has any reasonable expectation of privacy, I am still hesitant to include too much identifying information about parties who may…

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Sep 22 2006

Friday Random Ten LXXXIII

The “Going to see Allison!” edition

Friday Random Ten, Allison Edition

  1. Calexico • Yours and Mine
  2. Sufjan Stevens • Decatur
  3. The Grand Silent System • Did
  4. Elend • Leçon de Ténèbres
  5. Leaves • Good Enough
  6. Low • Monkey
  7. Fiona Apple • The Way Things Are
  8. New Trolls • Concerto Grosso N. 1: I. Allegro
  9. The Dresden Dolls • Modern Moonlight
  10. Finger Eleven • Suffocate

Others spinning…

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Aug 26 2006

This one’s for you

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One week ago, I helped Allison move into her dorm at WIU. It’s been an interesting week since then for the both of us—she’s getting used to college and dorm life, I’m suddenly faced with an abundance that’s both nice…

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Apr 14 2006

æm xii {a stormcloud, vanquish’d}

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She is inexorable comings
of better things;
(like the laughter of children,
playing in the ashes of a stormcloud,
vanquish’d)
and She is a terrible pressure (and relief)
that fixes rivers gone astray,
turns brine to milk,
derives a brick or two of gæity
from walls of grief.

She…

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Oct 30 2005

That Toddlin’ Town

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On Saturday, Allison and I took a day trip up to Chicago to celebrate our 3rd anniversary.

We began in downtown Joliet, boarding a 10:24am train northbound to Chicago. We picked up donuts and coffee on the way there, though during the…

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