My P.O. box! It LIVES! I can get mail and everything. And now I get to sit under a light that shines like a prosthetic summertime, which makes me feel rather like a certain Robin McKinley protagonist. The real sun is setting early now, and the sky is striped in pale hues of blue and gray and gold outside my window, the colors broken into long ( Read more... )

( SONGS THAT MAKE ME REALLY HAPPY, part one of ? )

( whining! )

I have giant chocolate chip holiday cookies and a headache and...hmmm, you know, I'm not sure if a person is allowed to say "spoons," as in, "I haven't had the spoons for writing long (and comprehensible, and suitable-for-public-viewing) entries, or for spending much active time on the internet at all, lately" if she hasn't got a chronic illness ( Read more... )

I want to go to the river and do what my cousin showed me how to do when we were ten: catch a trout in my bare hands. Bright and wriggling, sick from what's gone in the opaque and silty knee-deep water. I want to go to the river and leave my clothes on the high rocks the way I did when I was nineteen and I was meeting this girl called Freesia in ( Read more... )

Oh boys. Oh men. No, I will not. Please stop trying to impress me. You're only people. It won't work. I don't care how much you think you know or how many of your friends you could totally beat up if you wanted to or how you have been with many beautiful women (of course). I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm not offended or anything. You're just ( Read more... )

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So my professor, the old, cranky one I like as a man but not as a teacher, writes:

Here’s something that might cause you to stare off into space like you do:  the two most compelling, engaging, & provoking writing-voices in this class, in my opinion-based on the final portfolio: you and that guy who was crapping on everyone the first couple ( Read more... )

This is my favorite Christmas song. (Followed closely by this one.) So. Even if you aren't Christian and/or weren't raised celebrating Christmas, happy...Decembery time of year. Even if you don't like the cold or the dark, remember that the nights are only getting shorter from here till June.

Okay. Time to walk the dog, let my ( Read more... )

"I think I missed the eclipse! I can't see the moon!"
                                                           - my sister

Okay, so this is a (slightly different?) version of the meme that signifiers does. Anyway, I like the idea of it.

( ...and that was twenty-ten! )