My initial anxiety due to feeling not-quite-right upon reentering Manhattan took about 6 hours to figure out. During these 6 hours, I walked south 100 blocks on Madison Avenue. I realize now my error: I started in the Upper East Side. This neighborhood is the most pretentious and unfriendly of all neighborhoods, with the exception of the Alice’s ( Read more... )

Lately I have been into finding, and subsequently very carefully listening to, new (WILDLY HIP) music. Last weeks findings were the new Fleet Foxes album, "Helplessness Blues," as well as the Local Natives album, "Gorilla Manor." Both of these are really, really enjoyable. Highly recommended. Carefully constructed, generally upbeat, interesting ( Read more... )

My junior year of college is officially completed.

AND FULL OF STRAIGHT As.

I am just crossing my fingers for a scholarship, really.  This would balance out the fact that in the past week I have bought round trip plane tickets to China, a Dell Inspiron Mini, and a ticket to Sleep No More in Manhattan. And a new Spring dress... clearly. You can take ( Read more... )

Barbie's sticky-with-caramel diary falls from her hand

Busy weeks, busy weeks, bought some lace dresses and applied for an honors scholar program, stayed up late a lot and wrote some poems which eventually won me some money and critical acclaim, promoting water sustainability while

supporting the lives of many a frivolous plant in the corners of my ( Read more... )

isn't she a
ware that life(who
never grows old)
is always beau

tiful and
that nobod
y beauti

ful ev
er hur

ries

painted instead of going to a party, staring at these papers, need some sun, rain is removing my resolvenailpolish

i think i am losing it on this spring semester thing

SOS i need new york and some clear varnish

SOS i need some soccer practices, good ( Read more... )

I WANT MORE TATTOOS

i want to be covered in poems, i want to be made of poems

He said,
There's a tyranny of language in my fluted bones.

and i want them to be in my own handwriting

but in all of the languages

the other night i abruptly woke up during a dream to someone with a soft spanish accent saying my name in my right ear, distinctly, i have not ( Read more... )

ya los musgos y la hierba
abren con dedos seguros
la flor de su calavera--
y su sangre ya viene cantando:

Reading Spanish is so easy now. And refreshing.

Fencing Nationals were an interesting and rather humbling experience. But, I must say, I did remarkably well for my first time!

The next two weeks or so are going to be nerve wracking, but after they ( Read more... )

I am distraught that a close friend from my freshman year of college is dead because she was so fascinating. Vibrant and enclosed.

I kept up with what she was doing even though I rarely said anything. I wanted to have an intimate and detailed conversation with her one or two years after our last because I thought that it would be more poignant that ( Read more... )

There has been a whole lot lately.

I enjoy it, I do. But it is so radically different than what I would have anticipated even a year ago out of my life that sometimes it catches me, and I find myself off-put for several days at a time because I feel as though... I am in the incorrect place. I am quite certain that everyone feels this way, and yet it ( Read more... )

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