I just wanted to take this opportunity to say, after 4 years of many sleepless nights (including today), drunken phone calls, hangovers, endless readings, papers...

I AM COMPLETELY DONE!

i r a college gradu8!

been thinking a lot about getting my b.a. - how much it's going to change and not change my life ( Read more... )

it seems pathetic but my brain's fried from writing 2 papers in a row ( Read more... )

for the first time this year, i was struck by a mild case of SENIORITIS. i didn't read, didn't write my response paper, skipped class, took shots of rum, went to best buy & target, then to the sonics game (we won btw).

then i realized: oh holy shit, it's almost my last quarter.

Still, you admit you cannot live without your family, your history, this ideal called “your people.” You cannot divorce yourself from yourself. You know you are the hyphen in American-raised. Your identity scrawls the length and breadth of the page, American-raised girl. American-raised Filipina. Because you have always had one foot planted in ( Read more... )

"the past is past, we cannot remake it ( Read more... )

(see this link: My Boysbasically "my boys" about a girl who is "one of the guys" (go figure). she's the token girl out of a group of males, into sports, writing sports, and she's even characterized as having "think like a male ( Read more... )

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for my english paper, i am writing about notorious big and 50 cent and how through these two, the concept of self-determination is turned into a commodity in the utilization of material images to depict wealth, power, and privilege. and how, even though the advent of (true)hip hop is based on professing issues surrounding the black community, in ( Read more... )

still at the odegaard library at 2:39am
playing catch-up
meanwhile, i think tonight has been one of the more productive nights ive had since school started.

today is a black and red day.