if_it_wasn't_for_blather andru235 i'd have stopped using the internet last year 050501 ... ever dumbening i wouldn't have made fresh pasta for a party a few blocks from my place in west oakland. 050502 ... dandy I'd take myself and the world entirely too seriously in my own A-B rut and never have seen the likes of you wonderful diverse lot. 050502 ... sahba id never start writing 050502 ... birdmad i wouldn't have blathed 050502 ... andru235 right now, in this moment that has already passed, i would be doing something else it could be something better, or something worse. perhaps i couldn't have done something else, or perhaps i could have. no one knows. i'll never know what i would have done instead... just like that, a mystery created! 050502 ... jennifer I would never have chatted on the phone with birdmad sitting only 48 miles from him, outside of a hotel, watching a drug deal. and I never would have laid under mosquito netting and a red star with silentbob. 050517 ... TK Don't _EVEN_ go their! I'm just going to pretend this blath doesnt exzist. 050517 ... misstree there would be a lot of words without homes. 050517 ... sevenmorethaneight If not for blather i would have been sleeping an hour ago. Shit! 051005 ... jane i would have a lot of free time, less stories to tell, & i would be in desperate need of an outlet. where have the last 6 years gone?? 051006 ... unhinged i wouldn't have people to talk to when i really need to; people that know when i'm in need of checking up on. people that can get me to smile my 'i can't stop smiling but this is beginning to hurt a little' smile. you know who you are....jimmy. 051006 ... nocturnal I probably would have done MUCH better in undergrad. but that probably means I'd have stayed a chem major, which means I wouldn't be in law school now. it's quite possible that this place changed my life. Thus far I'm pretty sure it was for the better. Of course, it's also possible that I would have found the cure to cancer or AIDS or something as I wanted to eventually get into biochem. So perhaps you people are at fault for everyone who dies of cureless diseases throughout the world. Good job, y'all. How do you sleep at night? 051006 ... endless desire i would have never become a writer. 051007 ... (_) i would be far less embarrassed, but also more my old self. 051008 ... nom were it not for blatherskites 051008 ... Casey I wouldn't have somewhere to go at midnight on a random day every two years 060403 what's it to you? who go blather from