I am Justin Tadlock.

I am also a writer. A front-end developer. A gardener. A small-town Alabama kid just trying to figure out whatever it is that that folks are supposed to figure out on this journey. Welcome to my little home on the web.

Dark Circles, NaNoWriMo, & More Reconstruction

Yes, it is well past my bedtime. The words on my monitor are becoming blurry. Well, they are blurry. I wish I had my web camera up and working. Hell, I don’t even know where it is. I want to show the dark circles forming around my eyes. Lack of … Continue reading →

Delirium, School, & Opera

DELIRIUM. noun 1. A temporary state of mental confusion and fluctuating consciousness resulting from high fever, intoxication, shock, or other causes. It is characterized by anxiety, disorientation, hallucinations, delusions, and incoherent speech. 2. A state of uncontrolled excitement or emotion I think I may be truly experiencing this. Once again, … Continue reading →

Sleep, Gresham's Madness, & Eva Longoria

SLEEP. It seems such a wonderful thing. Such a thing of long-lost memories that are beyond long gone now. If only I could get a wonderful 8 hours…Maybe even a slightly wonderful 6 hours of undisturbed, unadulterated shut-eye. I finally caught up with my reading of Bram Stoker’s Dracula (page … Continue reading →

Browser Compliant

Where do I start? It’s been a Long Day and a Long Night. I’ve been updating the site. Again, yes, again. I have been doing this since about 4:30, and I’ve only taken about a 2 hour break in that time. Basically, I’ve been working on making it compliant with … Continue reading →

Sick & Site Update

I’m about to go to bed. My body can hardly handle staying up this late. Yes, I am sick. I couldn’t even do yardwork this afternoon. I barely made it through 100 or so pages of Zadie Smith’s White Teeth and 55 pages (only 90 more to go before class … Continue reading →

An October Cold Front

I Wanna Be An October Cold Front I wanna blow wind gustsIn children’s inner lobes,I wanna make fire crackle and smokeFly out the roof, boil hot cocoa on the stoveI wanna brown leavesLeaving stains, after it rains, on the patio,I wanna harden snot bubbles in nostrils,Redden eyes and clog throats. … Continue reading →

Desperate Housewives

I have yet another television series on DVD to add to my collection, Desperate Housewives. That’s one more for the DVD Collection. I know, I shouldn’t have spent the money. But it was just sitting there on the shelf at Wal-Mart, and I just had to buy it. That’s $50 … Continue reading →

The Gazillionth Site Reconstruction

I’m almost finished for the week. Just one more day to go, and I will have the luxury of playing with this website for an entire weekend. I just have 2 more pages to write on my Ethnography of Literacy for my Advanced Composition class. Two more pages! Yeah, like … Continue reading →

4 Full Pages & A Bible Thumper

I sit here, well past my bedtime and wonder if I should finish off my 5-6 page paper, the one that now stands at a full 4 pages, tonight or wait until I’m a little fresher, by way of a few hours of sleep, tomorrow. I’ll probably wait until tomorrow … Continue reading →

Cookies & Wasted Time

I deleted my cookies and almost forgot my user name to get into this thing. Luckily, with a stroke of luck, something struck in my mind and I just happened to remember it. I said I might post tonight, and here it is. I didn’t get around to working on … Continue reading →