When you think back to your first kiss, your hair is perfect and she was wearing a cool outfit. We remember it with restraint and we remember it with style. We remember it as idealistically as you can think.

I don't know if you've ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for thousands of years. Or just not exist.

Some kids look at me strange in the hallways because I don't decorate my locker.

I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what's wrong with me. Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense. To make this all go away.

The girl that introduced The Smiths' song 'Asleep' to me was an important musical influence that I met in college. From there it's been an ongoing journey of different bands at different times, introducing bands and songs to me.

My dad said I did the right thing. I hope I did, but it's hard to tell sometimes.

I have finished To Kill a Mockingbird. It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another book.