I'm loaded. Not as in alcohol, or as in a gun, but as in questions ( Read more... )

I'm taking a moment to further procrastinate on my law school application paperwork reflect on the past year. I've done a lot. I've learned even more ( Read more... )

Saw a burned-out car on a night time street about a month back. No one was around, no sign that anyone was coming back for it. Just a car that had been on fire, and then put out, and then...


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Found a copy of House shoved into a back drawer of an abandoned desk at work. It was covered in dust and notes, post-its folded and worn stuck out past the pages. The page with the author's name on it had fallen out and was rubber-banded to the back. And all I could think was, "so that's what this Autumn is going to be like ( Read more... )

You know when you spoon with a good friend or lover (or both), and you fall into a solid sleep? Not the hard sleep of exhaustion or the flighty sleep of anxiety, but the solid sleep that brings the most lucid of dreams and the freshest mornings? Your breathing matches, and no matter how one of you shifts, the other matches without waking, nestling ( Read more... )

I made a post about homophobia and objectification that sparked a small debate/discussion. I'd like to be a bit more verbose now that I'm on a keyboard and have had some thinking time (as well as time to mull over your immediate and interesting feedback ( Read more... )

One of my dearest friends, Libby Bulloff, is embarking tomorrow on a new leg of life. She has always been leagues ahead of me in ability of written pontification, but I'll do my best ( Read more... )

I've been having a fair number of conversations lately about what it is to be in love with someone who is bad for you. And more poignantly, what is it to still think about them regularly, despite all the shit they put you through ( Read more... )

Liminal was always my favorite word.

"The liminal state is characterized by ambiguity, openness, and indeterminacy. One's sense of identity dissolves to some extent, bringing about disorientation. Liminality is a period of transition where normal limits to thought, self-understanding, and behavior are relaxed - a situation which can lead to new ( Read more... )

So let's see ( Read more... )