Music: Stand Up by Mike Tompkins

I don’t have time to write a blog, but I thought this would be a good time to post the videos of my performances from our school slam club’s first poetry slam. I got to read twice (meaning I made it to the semi finals), so here at the two poems I chose to do. They’re both new as of this month, and there are a couple f-bombs, but nothing too bad. I went to the Portland Poetry Slam again last night and actually made it to semifinals there too! It’s been a good week for poetry.

“Dear Liam Aiken”

“Optimus Mack”

It should be noted that I’d never performed either of these poems before. Ok bye.

Yesterday was a good day. A strange day, perhaps, and a busy one, but a good day nonetheless. And frankly, I’m surprised I managed to walk down four flights of stairs and all the way to Maggies this morning- my butt is freaking SORE. Let’s start from the beginning. Continue reading “My Life is Insane” →

You know how people like to say that they wish they’d been born into another generation? Ellen is convinced that she was meant to be growing up in the 50s, Dion is obviously a wanna-be child of the 70s, and Colton, for some reason, thinks it would have been more his speed during the roaring 20s. But me? I think I’m exactly where I belong. Continue reading “Out of Place and Time” →

But I am also so very happy.

People think it’s depressing that I have very few friends left from my hometown, and my high school.

People also think it’s depressing that most nights, unless I have work, intramural soccer, or class, I stay in my dorm room and watch TV on my computer or read.

And to them, I say that it must be difficult to require constant stimulation. To require human contact at all waking hours.

I live with three of my best friends in the entire world.

I have a YouTube show called Cooking with Gandalf, starring a motion censored, talking, armless Gandalf the Grey figurine.

I wrote a three minute play about zombies and a theater group on campus performed it.

I am a regular at the greatest independent coffee shop in the world.

I get to travel to Brussels in less than a year for speech and debate, and over the past two years I’ve also gotten to go to Budapest and Rome with them.

I live in Oregon.

I get to perform slam poetry at two different venues and get compliments every time I do.

I have moleskines filled to the brim with poetry and sections of fiction.

Owl City retweeted me last week.

Steve Kluger replied to my email (twice) a year ago.

I’m part of an international collab channel with six complete strangers who love all the same things I do.

I am a nerdfighter.

I am a junior in college.

I am alive.

Save your pity. I’m too busy having fun to require it.