Up the Tree

  • Sitting in the terminal of Long Beach Airport and there is a family of birds living in here. Really seems that JetBlue should make it a priority to get rid of these things. I don’t mean kill them, but maybe leave a door open at night? They fly around and god forbid you have food as these things are pretty pushy. In any case JetBlue, at least give them a bird feeder.

  • It is truly interesting the way that my life has changed in the last few years and as I continue to think about how I have grown, I realize I have neglected parts of my life in exchange for other parts. Like this journal, for example, has been here since I graduated from college, or shortly thereafter, and I rarely look at it now. This is a shame because I often wish I had a place I could write down my thoughts. Where is my diary? Not really sure, but I kind of feel I should be recording this stuff somewhere.

  • The other night I was at a bar in Queens for a friends birthday party. I was my usual jovial self and was making rounds saying hello to strangers and such when I sat down next to my friend. We got to catching up and then all of a sudden some guy, a friend of my friend, sits down next to us. I knew immediately I didn’t like him. He was shifty eyed and seemed for lack of a better word like he was trying to impress by pointing out all the ways he could be violent to people who had crossed him.

    For all those keeping score out there, I do not enjoy people like this and more so because well quite frankly he sounded like an asshole. My friend then mentioned that my wonderful girlfriend was moving in with me at the beginning of April. This is when, I will call him Turd, Turd decides to go on a tirade on how women are terrible and suck the life out of you.

    “Oh, don’t do that. If I could take back my relationship I would.”

    This post is to express to all of you people who feel the need to put your horrible relationships, the relationships you are in because you are a weak and incapable of being proactive in your life, on us people with relationships that work. While he was going off about how women are terrible, I couldn’t help but think how lucky I am to actually like my relationship. If it’s so bad Mr. Turd, why the hell are you in it? RIGHT?!

    And so I speak to all you people out there look at your relationships and if you hate them, either fix them or leave them, but don’t put your relationship on other people because quite frankly it makes you sound sad. I have news for you, relationships,marriages , and friendships should make you feel great, not horrible. But some people have lost sight of that fact. So I urge you all to say, next time you are around someone is is bringing you down…

    “Dear people who suck,

    No thank you.

    Sincerely,
    Someone who doesn’t”

  • Obama Guantanimo

    That about says it all.

  • Ben's Twitter

    Well if you’re waiting for an update to Up The Tree, well… they still happen… occasionally. But if you would rather keep tabs on me in fairly regular annoyingly sparse detail, why not saunter over to twitter and follow me? You’ll get all the information you are dying to hear, including how often I eat, how bad my indigestion is when I eat, and what sort of things I think about while I’m eating. I know, I know, you’re welcome.

    Be sure to say hi if you do – I will almost certainly add fans… unless your name starts with “Just” and ends in “Josiah”

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