your mirror's gonna crack when he breaks into it/ and you'll never, never be the same
Two nights ago my throat kept closing in my sleep and I had such bad heartburn I couldn’t lie down. I was up from 4 a.m. till 7. Finally watched Thumbsucker, though. Good movie.
The other day I had a packet of S’More Poptarts. Those bitches made me sick. So much sugar, so much fake stuff… nearly vom-ed. I can’t believe I used to eat those every day, in high school and college.
Who Killed the Electric Car made me pretty sick, too, but not because of artificial flavoring and preservatives. I hate Big Oil and I hate Hummers. Mom Eppinger said “FIO” that day, and I agree: AMERICA, FIGURE IT OUT.
Last night I had the fam watch Tsotsi with me. I saw that movie when we first landed in South Africa… there was a lot I’d forgotten. And I feel like I understand So Af, just a little, tiny bit more than when I saw Tsotsi in early July.
Applied at Bath & Body works, I interview tomorrow. I desperately need to be employed somewhere, so keep your fingers crossed for me.
Took Drew + Rach to Ruby Tuesday because I needed some salad bar. They yelled at the Giants from our booth and it was entertaining.
Finished A Dry White Season. I liked it, but I’ve liked other Andre Brink books better.
‘…one can lead such a delightfully cushioned existence that you can actually stop living, stop feeling, stop caring. As if you’re in a trance, living in a constant high… Then, one day, you discover that life itself is slipping past and you’re just a bloody parasite, something white and maggot-like, not really a human being, just a thing, a sweet and ineffectual thing. And even if you try and call for help, they don’t understand you. They don’t even hear you. Or they think it’s just a new craze and start doing their best to humor you.’
‘There is no evil that cannot be cured by prayer… Don’t you think you and I should rather go down on our knees tonight and pray for our Government and every man in position of authority?’
‘I find it too easy, Dominee, to shrug off our own responsibilities by referring them to God’
“Everything one used to take for granted, with so much certainty that one never even bothered to enquire about it, now turns out to be an illusion. Your certainties proven lies. And what happens if you start probing? Must you learn a wholly new language first?”
“There are moments which, for one’s own sake, one shouldn’t ever try to repeat. Suddenly there is a pattern; there are expectations, possibilities, hopes.”
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is so gorgeous that I’m already halfway through it.
The other day I had a packet of S’More Poptarts. Those bitches made me sick. So much sugar, so much fake stuff… nearly vom-ed. I can’t believe I used to eat those every day, in high school and college.
Who Killed the Electric Car made me pretty sick, too, but not because of artificial flavoring and preservatives. I hate Big Oil and I hate Hummers. Mom Eppinger said “FIO” that day, and I agree: AMERICA, FIGURE IT OUT.
Last night I had the fam watch Tsotsi with me. I saw that movie when we first landed in South Africa… there was a lot I’d forgotten. And I feel like I understand So Af, just a little, tiny bit more than when I saw Tsotsi in early July.
Applied at Bath & Body works, I interview tomorrow. I desperately need to be employed somewhere, so keep your fingers crossed for me.
Took Drew + Rach to Ruby Tuesday because I needed some salad bar. They yelled at the Giants from our booth and it was entertaining.
Finished A Dry White Season. I liked it, but I’ve liked other Andre Brink books better.
‘…one can lead such a delightfully cushioned existence that you can actually stop living, stop feeling, stop caring. As if you’re in a trance, living in a constant high… Then, one day, you discover that life itself is slipping past and you’re just a bloody parasite, something white and maggot-like, not really a human being, just a thing, a sweet and ineffectual thing. And even if you try and call for help, they don’t understand you. They don’t even hear you. Or they think it’s just a new craze and start doing their best to humor you.’
‘There is no evil that cannot be cured by prayer… Don’t you think you and I should rather go down on our knees tonight and pray for our Government and every man in position of authority?’
‘I find it too easy, Dominee, to shrug off our own responsibilities by referring them to God’
“Everything one used to take for granted, with so much certainty that one never even bothered to enquire about it, now turns out to be an illusion. Your certainties proven lies. And what happens if you start probing? Must you learn a wholly new language first?”
“There are moments which, for one’s own sake, one shouldn’t ever try to repeat. Suddenly there is a pattern; there are expectations, possibilities, hopes.”
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is so gorgeous that I’m already halfway through it.