Week 21: Monday -- Journal & Polaroids
In relating the circumstances which have led to my confinement within this refuge for the demented, I am aware that my present position will create a natural doubt of the authenticity of my narrative...
That said, I tip my hat to the Master of Mad Ends and Long Adjectives: Thank you for making my childhood that much stranger. Speaking of horror, I have to A) finish the show paintings this week or admit defeat and B) start pounding my research into a palatable thesis for the Headmaster.Sure, it'd be nice if that research was something more than polluted hearsay and recycled biology notes, but--
Also, both Dr. Quinn and Kostya called last weekend. It's becoming a cozy little tradition, really, them calling and me not answering and all of us pretending Halcyon was my personal decision. (It was a choice, there’s a difference.) I warned Kostya that if Josiah calls I’d put my cellphone in the microwave. Tori, though…her, I miss talking with.
Sometimes this feels so much harder than I thought it would.
[taped outside Sasha's door]
( P.O.L.A.R.O.I.D.s )
( PRIVATE: Excerpt from e-mail to Dr. Gideon Quinn )
That said, I tip my hat to the Master of Mad Ends and Long Adjectives: Thank you for making my childhood that much stranger. Speaking of horror, I have to A) finish the show paintings this week or admit defeat and B) start pounding my research into a palatable thesis for the Headmaster.
Also, both Dr. Quinn and Kostya called last weekend. It's becoming a cozy little tradition, really, them calling and me not answering and all of us pretending Halcyon was my personal decision. (It was a choice, there’s a difference.) I warned Kostya that if Josiah calls I’d put my cellphone in the microwave. Tori, though…her, I miss talking with.
Sometimes this feels so much harder than I thought it would.
[taped outside Sasha's door]
( P.O.L.A.R.O.I.D.s )
( PRIVATE: Excerpt from e-mail to Dr. Gideon Quinn )