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Things That I'm Grateful For

by ~Octopussy~

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October 13, 2025

The Border Story

For some reason, a lot of memories are zooming back in my mind recently. I went looking back to see if I had written about it, but I’m not sure if I did because it would be one of the first entr...


September 21, 2025

Son of the Silent Age

My stepfather’s situation has either gotten worse or better. I’m not quite sure. Apparently the cancer had progressed really far, but it turns out he had a genetic defect which meant he was like...


July 15, 2025

The Sins of the Prophets

You know, I had a bit of a panic attack because I suddenly had a flashback to my childhood while watching this documentary about churches in Australia. First of all, I have to tell you that I h...


I startled a co-worker this morning. We were having a conversation when the phone rang, I politely told her I needed to quickly answer the call. I answered the call, gave a few instructions (my ...


It’s been a while since I just answered some questions, so let’s see how this goes. What are some of your favorite cities you’ve been to? I’ll always love New Orleans & Paris, but Chiang Ma...


The final term of my contract is starting in just over a week and, once again, there are all kinds of mistakes. Well, that I’ve caught… I still haven’t seen my complete schedule, but the part I’...


I was totally defeated. That’s what it felt like. I wasn’t as desperate or sad as I had been in jail, in which I was literally laying on the ground begging for death to end my misery, but I wasn...


April 17, 2025

Into the Nightlife

Someone on here suggested I write a quick little guide to nightlife in Bangkok. I balked at the idea because it feels stupid for a foreigner to write this, but that person countered that I’m tec...


April 16, 2025

Brain For Sale

I don’t like people paying attention to me. I obviously think I have something interesting to say, clearly since I’ve been writing one of these things since 1999, but I really don’t crave the sp...


February 24, 2025

Real Connections

I’m so behind on work, and I honestly can’t even get myself to feel any motivation for it. Like, it’s all so corrupt that I don’t even have momentum to get things done in a timely manner, which ...


February 15, 2025

White Flag

In a very technical way, I’m in my first relationship since that awful debacle with Jonah which everyone told me later was an abusive relationship. Not physically, other types of abuse, and I su...


What size is your bed? You know, I don’t know. When I was talking to my mother about Cameron moving, she mentioned his “tiny” bed being so old, and I told her that bed was 20 years old. “How do ...


May 30, 2024

Holding Pattern

For a few weeks, I was toying with moving down to the main area of town. I quickly came to my senses when I realized that I am finally stabilized financially after abruptly switching jobs and it ...


May 23, 2024

Forgiven

I was out and suddenly ran into Good. I know I know. How many times am I going to get caught up in that nonsense? But it was very amusing because the week before I had been out with this guy I ho...


January 28, 2024

A Deeper Love

I read recently about the questionnaire compiled by a psychologist to help people determine compatibility in romantic relationships, and so I figured that since there are so many nonsense surveys...


November 16, 2023

Kiss

So the day finally arrived. He’s been talking about it since we first met about 2 years ago, back when producing his series was just a dream for him. Ark was always telling me he wanted me to do ...


November 14, 2023

Now What

So I’m sitting alone in my office for the second day in a row now at a complete and utter loss. I’m not so naive as to not realize that I have a giant office, even if I have to share, my half of ...


August 11, 2023

Dream Some

My former professor, a great friend and mentor, sent me a message a few mornings ago. She told me that she had had a dream about me. I must be honest, I don’t receive messages like that very ofte...


June 22, 2023

Daggers

I wouldn’t say I’m impatient, but people think I’m very impulsive. This is of course far from the truth, it’s just that my patience is invisible to most people. I wait for important things, the t...


I’m not sick anymore, which is good because I’m going on vacation this weekend. I’m going to a small little beach resort on the coast. I reasoned that I needed a vacation from my vacation due to ...


March 30, 2023

Prove You Wrong

It was Ark’s birthday a few days ago. For those of you who don’t remember, Ark and I were hooking up until he randomly got a boyfriend and forgot to tell me about it and it kind of broke my heart...


December 13, 2022

Compassion

I walked into class and one of my students wasn’t looking as energetic or happy as he used to. The truth is, neither was I. Four teachers were out with Covid, so I was teaching way more than I ha...


I don’t know how to explain what it’s like here. I live in an alternate reality. Which is both good and bad. Nothing that happens over there matters. Which means that negative things don’t affec...


Do you have any nicknames? I have so many nicknames that my friend Billy Francesca, a West Hollywood legend, told me that I had more aliases and alter-egos than he did and that meant I was eith...


April 30, 2022

Candlebright

Ironically, something that was said on the new season of The Real World: Homecoming triggered a thought process in my head. I know why I have such severe panic attacks but I only know the symptom...


Book Description

I spend so much time bitching about how awful things are, I thought it would be nice to have a place where I could post all the positive things in my life.