I finally sat down with my mother today and finally told her what exactly I want to do with the next five years of my life, which is amazing to me because I had no idea a week ago what that precisely was. This whole semester has been me agonizing over what to do after I graduate from college, because I have no idea and there are so many options ( Read more... )

I'm sitting here in a dark basement room lit with a hundred paper lanterns and a single tiny window where the essence of light rather than the substance streams in, with fake autumn garlands over my doorway and mirror that look real if I'm not too careful, a half dozen pillows in shades of navy and cerulean and scarlet and gold all sumptuous and ( Read more... )