{"id":24,"date":"2002-09-17T18:40:43","date_gmt":"2002-09-18T02:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deepsicks.com\/blog\/?p=24"},"modified":"2022-02-27T13:39:49","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T19:39:49","slug":"feeling-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/2002\/09\/17\/feeling-home\/","title":{"rendered":"feeling home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry it&#8217;s taken me awhile to get back with a &#8220;hey hey hey,&#8221; but hey hey hey! I&#8217;m all moved in, my room makes sense, I&#8217;m overcoming a cold with wide, mad strides, and the school\/work pressure non-stop is not stoppin me. I&#8217;m not sure how or when it happened, but a seed has been sown\u2014I&#8217;m not just saying, &#8220;No More Apathy,&#8221; I&#8217;m <em>feeling<\/em> no apathy, I&#8217;m feeling&#8230; hopeful and manic and wild.<\/p>\n<p>Despite strange bouts with nausea and headaches, yesterday was a terrific day. To start it off I met writer Kevin Kautzman and his musician brother Kellen due to an infiltration of a conversation by my friend Nic concerning the recent Tool concert. An exchange of urls later, and I&#8217;m in touch with a fellow, young Minneapolis author and North Dakota native\u2014check out Kevin&#8217;s website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cassielalpha.com\">www.cassielalpha.com<\/a>. I imagine we will all be setting things on fire sometime in the near future. Thank you, Reverend Maynard!<\/p>\n<p>Later stepping onto the campus Mall I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mndaily.com\/new_site\/article.php?id=283\">huge pictures of dead fetuses<\/a> and none other than my favorite ultraconservative posterchild-for-avoiding-LSD fire-and-brimstone evangelist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brojed.org\/\">Brother Jed<\/a> who said, quote, &#8220;I&#8217;m here to give you a spankin&#8217; with the Bible!&#8221;\u2014and let&#8217;s not forget the Hare Krishna, peaceful and smiling at the edge of the green. It was like a circus (though granted, the University&#8217;s juggling club busting out in full effect had a hand in that vibe).<\/p>\n<p>Sadly departing Brother Jed&#8217;s condemnations of masturbation and HOOOMMOOO-SEXUUUUALLLSSS!, I went to class where I got positive critique on a modified version of my s u s p e n s i o n piece (which I&#8217;ll eventually revise and update here, probably with more picture links\u2014interactive media makes happy), which hell, felt good :), then saw a former coworker, who gave me a hug.<\/p>\n<p>I asked her, &#8220;How was Brazil?&#8221; &#8217;cause she&#8217;d been so excited, so open-eyed <i>escape escape escape!<\/i> and she said, &#8220;I want to live there the rest of my life&#8221;\u2014&gt;the most beautiful thing I&#8217;d heard in a long time, even better than a self-proclaimed Christian responding to Jed with, &#8220;How &#8217;bout I spank you with a little shut the f*ck up?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I like life. I really do. Especially when my dad informed me that I got a check from GM, reimbursing me the $55 for my lockout fee last July.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m crushed and I&#8217;m constantly killing myself but I&#8217;m making so much time. Telling so much real. &#8230;Did I mention I&#8217;m going to see the Underworld? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><strong>Site news:<\/strong> Perhaps you noticed the font size is&#8230; readable. Ahem. I&#8217;ve gotten complaints on the minuscule text and this is me admitting defeat. It&#8217;ll take awhile for everything to get converted as I s&#8217;pect some alignment adjusting will need to be done on several pages, but yes, it is happening. You can put away your binoculars now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry it&#8217;s taken me awhile to get back with a &#8220;hey hey hey,&#8221; but hey hey hey! 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