Giles: Sometimes the most adult thing you can do is ask for help when you need it.
Buffy: Now you tell me.

-Grave

I totally cooked last night. A well-balanced, delicious meal. And granted it wasn't that hard, but I'm trying to boost my confidence and not say to myself "oh, it didn't involve much, what's the big deal, you're still a failure." I cooked pasta and added olive oil, garlic tomato sauce, and freshly grated parmesan cheese. I also cooked Boca Burgers ( Read more... )

That New Year's Resolution(s) generator that's going around gave me one coherent sentence ( Read more... )

Giles: To forgive is an act of compassion, Buffy. It's not done because people deserve it, it's done because they need it.Buffy: No. James destroyed the one person he loved the most in a moment of blind passion. And that's not something you forgive. No matter why he did what he did. And no matter if he knows now that it was wrong and selfish and ( Read more... )

I'm reading Chinese Handcuffs right now and I'm about 1/4 of the way through it. By "right now" I mean I started it like an hour ago and will undoubtedly finish it by sunset. So, it's very-and I kind of hate myself for using some of these words-but raw and real and, I don't know, it justs knocks the wind out of me, like Crutcher is inside my head, ( Read more... )

The really neat thing about life is that even when you fuck up, it keeps going, and you keep trying, y'know? Of course, that's also the really terrible thing about life, that there aren't any breaks. But, I mean, you make mistakes, you move foreward, and maybe you make the same mistakes again, or, well, let's be honest, I make the same types of ( Read more... )

OK, so remember how I really wanted to apply to MFA Creative Writing programs but I was like, they're all expensive and far away, I won't do it? And I was lazy. I thought all the deadlines had passed. They haven't. California College of the Arts (in San Fransisco, the most attractive MFA program I looked at) has it's deadline set at March 1st for ( Read more... )

Dear Alarm Clock ( Read more... )

There's this quote that says something like "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." I'm too lazy to google it, so I don't know who said it. But I think it goes beyond that. You must be the change you wish to see in yourself. Nobody changed by sitting around and wishing it would happen. I was talking to Ben earlier today and he ( Read more... )