I want to chase through the streets of my childhood, my feet skittering over long-traveled sidewalks, past familiar monuments to great battles, our heroics. The tree (shrub really) I climbed to escape the mad scientist. The leaf pile and the king over the mountain. The jungle and its hidden dangers, the alleys flanked by brambles and blackberry. ( Read more... )

Drawn for davario's "Draw Yourself as a Teen" meme. w00t! Nabbed from littlest_elle. :-D


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How did you spend summers when you were a kid?LJ had this question on the main page, and I'm bored, so I'ma answer it ( Read more... )

1. I discovered the awesome new pair of underwear that I'd got at Ross for $1.99 and was covered with purple flamingos, tigers, paper clips, jets, guitars and motorcars, is too small. Which sucks. Generally a medium at Ross can be trusted to actually be so, but not in this case. ;_; But really I'm only grasping at this so I can pretend to be a ( Read more... )

Hurricane Katrina sure is doing a number on New Orleans. It sounds like things are pretty terrible down there. :(

In 1989 I lived in Charleston, South Carolina. Hurricane Hugo hit in September of that year. It was the costliest hurricane in the US until Hurricane Andrew hit. I was 4 years old, almost 5. My family drove to Charlotte, North ( Read more... )

I just got bitchslapped by my purple rolly chair ( Read more... )

Today my Batman: the Animated Series, Volume 1 DVDs came in the mail. OMG. 625 minutes of my favorite childhood show. *dead from joy ( Read more... )

To find, looking back, that my Doggett infatuation was not just because Mulder left ( Read more... )

I'm not sure what it is, but these past three weeks my Willamette friends and I have been getting downright nostalgic about childhood. Maybe it's the realization that most of us are nearing the end of our time at Willamette, maybe it's that we're starting to have to think more and more about real-world things like living on one's own... I don't ( Read more... )

When I first came back to school this term, I was still wishing I could stay at home. Between Mom, Richie, Dad when he's in a good mood, my friends, four cats, two dogs, and zero stress, it's a very appealing place. So I wasn't looking forward to coming back to school at all. But as I settled back into the swing of things and started hanging ( Read more... )