the red south

uncut, uncensored, and unfettered by confidentiality agreements

by REID CAMERON SOUTHWICK, budding journalist, poet and wordsmith extraordinaire

Dedicated to Eileen Nash George. My Nan

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

I want SOMEone to blow my brains out right about...

...be careful what you wish for.

In fact, my own will/negligence/will to neglect seem to be wrapped around the trigger every time I find myself before what I dramatically call death's door.

But today is going to be different. Yes, dear readers, how few you are!, I've decided to turn this wheel of fortune on its head and wish for exactly what I want... and I might even put some energy into getting it.

In no particular order, here is my wishlist for the 2006/2007 academic year and BEYOND!

1. To be able to chill with no other human being than the lovely hess-i-cita (with a few select peoples here and there)
2. To graduate. Like, with a degree and stuff
3. To find a couple grand under my couch cushions
4. Sleep
5. My honours project done and filed
6. Student loan approval
7. Pot, movies, you-know-who and NOTHING to do the next day
8. Sleep
9. To feel care free again, at least for a moment or two
10. For King's students to understand that public debate is necessary when the law is being broken
11. Lots of sleep
12. A job. A real one that I love. Like The Gazette, only real
13. To be able to think on the spot without churning my brain over and over (although that's prolly a done deal, given the first item in #7)
14. To travel. I love this place, but after 19 years (off and on... kinda), i kinda feel like stretchin my legs.
15. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
16. A bank account with a balance... or just the ability to go to the cash machine and not cringe in fear that nothing is going to be there
17. More drive. I'm feckin lazy. Way too lazy.
18. Sleep
19. Sleep
20. Sleep

There's 20. Not a bad number to start with. OK, back to the all-nighters...

2 Comments:

Blogger C. LaRoche said...

I want the Gazette website to be updated.

Now what's with the girly font on your menus?

6:33 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

so it has come to this
insomnia at 3:15am
the clock tolling its engine

the business of words keeps me awake

I would like a simple life
yet all night I am laying
poems away in a long box

it's my immortality box
my layaway plan
my coffin

A.S. -love chrissy

2:42 PM  

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