The Distant World

Here's some awesome writing that I did one time after a trip to Tokyo. I was driving the van when I just was like "Aw screw this" and crawled into the back. Then I wrote this. Yay!

The Distant World

Tik-ritta-skit-tik. The skittery leaves scramble across the ground like frantic mice. Fog traps the land under a sleepy morning spell. It is a thick, smothering blanket.

The crisp cool scents of autumn and winter meet at this place. Spicy and pumpkiny is mingled with wet and earthy.

The streets are eerily quiet, but traffic can faintly be heard somewhere beyond the tranquil fog. Even as leaves crackle underfoot, the silence is invasive.

Leaf-spattered sidewalks lead to leaf-covered lawns and homes. A sense of antique disrepair haunts the foundations. Colorful sidings are weatherworn with pain slowly peeling.

As a soggy wind blows, leaves trickle from the trees like a fiery rain. Tik-ritta-skit-tik.

An exercise machine, seemingly abandoned, rests on a musty porch. Right next to the machine is a door. The screen within its wooden frame is silver from the spider webs that leak from every corner. In the yard, shovels and rakes lay beneath a crisp cover. It may have been years since they were last touched.

Tea! Hooray! TEA!

Yay! Heroes is on in a couple of hours!

So, I got some plantain tea from the health food store because we were stopping by. My mom spent a fortune on it. $1.89? Insane! No one has that kind of money nowadays!
It's pretty good, but that may be because I like bitter stuff. It's not the plantain as in banana-thing, but it's the plantain as in a weed.

This was jacked from a fellow Blogspotter:
A common roadside and meadow plant you may even have some in your own backyard. Plantain was a familiar ingredient in early remedies, and many old-time herbalists believed it could cure all diseases. In medieval England, it was called slan-lus, "plant of healing".
Plantain tea is one of the best cleansers to remove toxins from the blood. (It is even used as an antidote to venom and poisons, including snake and spider bites, because of its blood cleansing properties.
Plantain is also a deobstruent, meaning it unclogs passageways, particularly lung plugs and liver obstructions (imbedded phlegm).
Plantain is a "specific" for infections and inflammations of the mucous membranes. It pulls toxins from the tissues and fights infections lingering there. It has silica to repair damaged tissue in mucous linings. It gets your body in better shape to heal itself.

Hooray for plantain goodness!
Of course, none of you readers probably likes bitter stuff. I can't stand dark chocolate for the most part, but bitter teas are freaking delicious.
I never use sugar in my tea unless it's Earl Gray tea.
And tea is somehow related to my van. Cause it's going to Tokyo, don't you know.

Party Hardy? No, forget the second y

Oh man, my whole body is like "Don't move! Don't move! Move and I'll pain you!" Ouch.
When I woke up I had to limp. Now it's better, though. Hmm, but I suppose you don't want to hear about my leg/back/neck/shoulder pains.

Apparently I smell like Keagan. That's what Sarah says. It disturbs me so much.
Down to my very core I am disturbed.

☺☻♥♦♣♠•◘○♀♪♂♫☼►◄↕‼§▬↨↑↓→←∟↔¶◙

I like the sunshine one. ☺

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Man, I should get that painted onto the other side of my van. Freaking awesome. Then the Sibs would be like, "Sweet! Sunshine!"
Except they would say, "Gracious yam buffalo! A man walks!"
If you didn't know Sib stands for Kantonese. You know, people from Kanton.
Kanton is a vast land-thing between Germany and Tokyo.
Well, it's somewhere in there.

oh snap :(

I beat Graffiti kingdom.
So now I get to play, lyk randomness.
:(
Kind of sad.

But! I went to a dance last night and partied so hard that my legs, neck, shoulders (wtf?), and feet are sore. It was sooo fun. It was a Halloween dance so I came as an emo. :3

Yay! I drew a picture with paint. It's my van, don't cha know? Like, I run around and solve mysteries in it. Actually, I just travel to Tokyo, but same difference, right?

Wheee!

I have homework, but I'm sure not doing it right now.

You know what? I'm obsessed with several things right now.
But two things really come to mind when I'm thinking about obsessions. Graffiti Kingdom and Heroes.

Yay! I'm so special cause I can watch Heroes WHEN IT'S ON TV! Woop!
And Graffiti Kingdom rocks cause I made a monster. His name is Doom Muffin. ♥

Gawd, I wish I could get in my van and go visit Meagan in Sweden, but my van has only one destination on mind: Tokyo.

Shrug. Too bad.

Homework? And I should be doing it?

Well, it's about 20 minutes before I fly to my school. Last night I said, "Hey, I'm not going to bother with writing that book report right now. It's only due tomorrow."

Now I'm writing it. Guh. SCHOOL SHOULD BE LEFT IN SCHOOL!

I feel like I'm lying this whole time I'm writing. Seriously:

The book, The Werewolf Book: The Encyclopedia of Shape-Shifting Beings, was written by Brad Steiger and was published on August 1, 1999 by Visible Ink Press. In its 432 pages you can find just about everything you wanted to know about werewolves and shape-shifters. From movies, to video games, to folklore, this book has everything there is to know about everything werewolfish.

The Werewolf Book carefully documents shape-shifters in alphabetical order. Each chapter is a new letter in the alphabet, so it is easy to navigate the pages. It resulted from Steiger’s lifelong studies and contains nearly 250 entries. Entries go from simple, one-paragraph explanation to the complex, two-page stories.

Although this book is nonfiction, it was non-conventional as well. It fits into both categories of encyclopedia and storybook. Each entry is in a different style than the last, but it is easy to tell the same author wrote them all. Sometimes the in-depth entries are a little too heavy and sometimes the short entries are a little too light, but every entry keeps you interested for the next. I would definatly recommend this book to others if they enjoy a blend of nonfiction, fiction, and werewolves.

After reading this book, I was inspired to write a story or do something creative. It is a thought-warming book that starts my creativity every time I read it. You will probably enjoy this book if you like to be prompted with ideas, rather than making them up by yourself.

EW! That is terrible! But it is a pretty good book, so you should read it.
Oh snap! I gotta get ready to get into the Tokyo-bound van!
Yeah, today you aren't allowed :P

Okay! You can get in the van...

but only this once! Most of the time only celebrities are allowed because I am shallow, but today you are lucky. You can get in the van that is headed to Tokyo.

Leave your saddle bags behind. Supplies? We don't need those. Pah, who needs food and survival gear nowadays? This is the 22nd century! Sherlock Holmes has been brought back to life for no reason whatsoever.

We are living in a frivolous age and if you didn't get the Sherlock joke, go look up "Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century."

Man I loved that show.

Welcome Post

Everyone's got a welcoming post so I said, "Hey! I'm gonna jump this cliff and join those lemming bodies cause following everyone else is FUN!"

WELCOME TO MY BLOG!

and your not invited into the van. Only I am going to Tokyo.