but in those pockets of spare time...i hope to find you.
i've been using livejournal to randomly keep track of my life for six years now. might as well keep that going.
i wrote a myspace bulletin that said:
a. a strange boy told me yesterday that i look like gwyneth paltrow and asked me to autograph his ass. being liz, i took this opportunity. another story to file into the "is this really my life?" memoirs.
b. when i was walking into sociology of immigration, my professor (who is pretty much my idol, as well as being the reason my life is the way it is now. she introduced me to everything i've become a part of -- and everything that has become so much a part of me.) said that she stumbled across something that made her think of me. she handed me a scrap of notebook paper that she scribbled this quote on:
"True compassion is more than throwing a coin to a beggar. It demands of our humanity that if we live in a society that produces beggars, we are morally commanded to restructure that society." -MLK
i just really love that anyone would ever read a quote like that and think of me. i love that i'm becoming who i want to be. i love that there are people to guide me toward becoming that person, who are eager to help me and think of me when i'm not directly in front of them. i love that i'm studying things that are really interesting and satisfying. i love that my professor believes that i could motivate some positive change in the world.
i love school and i'm a huge nerd. i just want to spend all of my time reading books and listening to music and having conversations that turn into tangents that turn into going to bed at three am even when i have to wake up at nine.
i love that it's almost fall.
the end.
my friend alison replied with this, and i really liked it and want to keep it somewhere:
that was inspiring. really it was. there are about 12 billion complicated reasons why i'm at messiah in-the-middle-of-nowhere, PA... and trying to turn into the person i want to be is approximately 60% of it. possibly more... i'm glad that your professor takes the time to get to know you and converse with you(as it would seem). you definitely have a spark, to say the least, and you will and are already changing the world around you. i hope that i one day will manifest myself into who i want to be as well. it's inspiring to hear that it's coming together for you!! i love reading your bulletins because they usually make me want to go to the library and do my homework for hours on end-- finally taking the time to really succeed and feel passionate about learning relevant things, but somehow, simultaneously your bulletins also make me want to... scream and run around in a field (for both the sake of expression and insanity). i don't know if that makes sense to you. but risking being completely misunderstood, i'll send this to you anyway:) keep up the high spirits and hard work and passion to learn and impact the world. oh, and the bulletins, cause cleary i'm fond <3
i wrote a myspace bulletin that said:
a. a strange boy told me yesterday that i look like gwyneth paltrow and asked me to autograph his ass. being liz, i took this opportunity. another story to file into the "is this really my life?" memoirs.
b. when i was walking into sociology of immigration, my professor (who is pretty much my idol, as well as being the reason my life is the way it is now. she introduced me to everything i've become a part of -- and everything that has become so much a part of me.) said that she stumbled across something that made her think of me. she handed me a scrap of notebook paper that she scribbled this quote on:
"True compassion is more than throwing a coin to a beggar. It demands of our humanity that if we live in a society that produces beggars, we are morally commanded to restructure that society." -MLK
i just really love that anyone would ever read a quote like that and think of me. i love that i'm becoming who i want to be. i love that there are people to guide me toward becoming that person, who are eager to help me and think of me when i'm not directly in front of them. i love that i'm studying things that are really interesting and satisfying. i love that my professor believes that i could motivate some positive change in the world.
i love school and i'm a huge nerd. i just want to spend all of my time reading books and listening to music and having conversations that turn into tangents that turn into going to bed at three am even when i have to wake up at nine.
i love that it's almost fall.
the end.
my friend alison replied with this, and i really liked it and want to keep it somewhere:
that was inspiring. really it was. there are about 12 billion complicated reasons why i'm at messiah in-the-middle-of-nowhere, PA... and trying to turn into the person i want to be is approximately 60% of it. possibly more... i'm glad that your professor takes the time to get to know you and converse with you(as it would seem). you definitely have a spark, to say the least, and you will and are already changing the world around you. i hope that i one day will manifest myself into who i want to be as well. it's inspiring to hear that it's coming together for you!! i love reading your bulletins because they usually make me want to go to the library and do my homework for hours on end-- finally taking the time to really succeed and feel passionate about learning relevant things, but somehow, simultaneously your bulletins also make me want to... scream and run around in a field (for both the sake of expression and insanity). i don't know if that makes sense to you. but risking being completely misunderstood, i'll send this to you anyway:) keep up the high spirits and hard work and passion to learn and impact the world. oh, and the bulletins, cause cleary i'm fond <3