Deadline Pressure updated!
"These are the hands that rubbed Megan Adams' knee while parked in my truck after my first real date. Strangely enough, they were under the direction of the same brain that was too chicken to tell my lips to kiss her."

Entry: [ 04 December 2007 ]

Deadline Pressure updated!
"For the first time in a long time, our conversation felt very real. It felt like two old friends catching up. It didn't feel like a charade. It didn't feel as though one (or both) of us was saying one thing and feeling another. Feeling that again made me as happy as I've been in a long time."

Entry: [ 22 June 2005 ]

Deadline Pressure updated again!
"The dreams came back. Although this time, they made even less sense. The first dream was set in a supermarket that was really supposed to be my fire station. I was having a meeting with the city personnel director, who happened to be carrying a pistol on his side. His desk was at the front of the store, alongside the check out stands. I'm making none of this up."

Entry: [ 21 January 2005 ]

Deadline Pressure updated!
"I finally returned to sleep about 3 a.m., catching a little more than three hours before leaving work. Once home, most of my morning and early afternoon was spent watching Inaugural-related television. On days like today, I'm not so much interested in who the president is... I just enjoy watching the pomp and circumstance of it all. About two or so, but body took over and demanded that I rest. I crawled into bed and slept in 30 minute increments until nearly 6 p.m. -- each session filled with very vivid dreams."

Entry: [ 20 January 2005 ]

Deadline Pressure updated!
"I consider killing off Thomas Fletcher more and more these days. It's a growing possibility that he's outlived his usefulness. Perhaps it's time that all of his stories -- the stories that were originally mine -- return to me. If life was simple and easy, he'd be gone by now. Life, of course, is neither."

Entry: [ 08 October 2004 ]

Deadline Pressure updated!
"When we received report of yet another fire alarm call at Lakeland Place yesterday evening, most of us automatically chalked it up as false. But when we turned the corner in front of the building and could see the facade, we also saw the smoke showing from one of the apartments."

Entry: [ 07 October 2004 ]

Deadline Pressure updated!
"There are a few amusement parks across the country that all have a variation of this one particular ride that appears to defy gravity -- if for just a few moments. In each ride, the rider is strapped into a car and shot straight up in the air on a pole. As the car prepares to drop, the rider is weightless for just a moment."

Entry: [ 05 October 2004 ]

Deadline Pressure updated again!
"I feel about as stressed right now as I have since I moved to Franklin two years ago. Some of the problems bearing down are my own, some have been caused by others and some are a combination of both. To add to the frustration, they are all complicated by a feeling of unsettledness. So many things seem out of place..."

Entry: [ 08 September 2004 ]

Deadline Pressure updated!
"As the officer called each of the authorized tow companies in the city on his cell phone, we made the walk back towards the parking lot. As we got closer to where my truck had been parked, we began to run out of companies that could have towed my truck. By the time we made it to the lot, there was only one real option left as to where it had gone."

Entry: [ 07 September 2004 ]

Deadline Pressure updated!
"I've been to a few funerals in my time and I can't think of one that wasn't lovely. Yet, there was something special about Mr. Clarence's service that got to me. Alex maintained a strong appearance throughout the funeral. On the other hand, I thought I was going to break down at any moment."

Entry: [ 26 July 2004 ]

Deadline Pressure updated!
"It was 12:44 a.m. when the phone rang. With one look at the clock, my mind instantly spun the wheel of who it could be at this hour. It settled on Alex. I knew the news couldn't be good."

Entry: [ 8 July 2004 ]

Deadline Pressure updated!
"I've been off the charts in the wierd dream department lately. Several in the last week or so have involved me facing some sort of imminent danger that I can't seem to escape. I've also had several mornings where I've woken up to a terrible dream, fallen back asleep almost instantly and dreamed some more crazy shit."

Entry: [ 29 June 2004 ]

Deadline Pressure updated!
"'We ain't got no official policy. We figure that the handicapped people will get here early enough to get a good spot. If I had a ride, I'd park it there, too.'"

Entry: [ 28 June 2004 ]