been listening to "joyful girl" by ani difranco, which is about a girl who's anything but happy. this is the song that i thought of, when i read dom's exam story. also, "untouchable face" is quite good. a deceptively gentle-sounding song with a chorus goes like this :

so fuck you
and your untouchable face
and fuck you
for existing in the first place
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just thought i'd post up a poem i found the other day, by eliza griswold. this is for everyone who's feeling burnt out and ready to jump off a cliff, lemmings-style. and thank you everybody who's been concerned and "gentle" with me, to use tulner's words. i'm not okay, but i will be, so no worries, yeah.

in another year of fewer disappointments

The ( Read more... )

... so, feeling slightly (but not really?) more alive. i traded the sore throat for a dry and scratchy one, and i exchanged my fever for completely stuffed up nasal passages.

spent all day outside, b/c it was way too damn hot in the house (wait, that's the fever talking XD). all i did, all day, was read, make notes, and blow my nose. i'm halfway ( Read more... )

WOW. so, i was going to post yesterday, but then some friends i haven't seen in months came over. actually, it works out better this way, so i can just make one huge monster post.

so. i'm currently waging war with mr. basford. for full details, as always, follow the cut.

sunday. things begin innocently enough. christine, kate and i work our butts ( Read more... )

notes on orange wednesday / hump day :

(o1) shakespeare is a gleeful pervert.

(o2) kate managed to click my pen for TWENTY MINUTES, nonstop. her hand was a gnarled CLAW afterwards.

(o3) wes managed to click it for TWENTY-ONE MINUTES, nonstop.

(o4) neither (2) nor (3) were a perverted euphemism for ANYTHING.

(o5) unless you're shakespeare.

(o6) i am ( Read more... )

today i cried over a hot dog.

it was not the hot dog's fault. instead, it was an unlucky combination of several factors.

it went more or less like this.

me : *starving, innocently chomping down on a hot dog that the kind steph-ani^2 had offered*
kate : *evil gleam in eye* "... is that a HOT DOG?"
me : *begins to choke, and then emits that high ( Read more... )