Childhood Dreams:

Fashion designer
Endangered botanist
Librarian

Later:

Art critic/historian
Thrift shop owner
Curator

Not sure those have changed at all.

"Gillian Brown, in her influential study of the relation between humanism and anorexia, shows that the anoretic's struggle to 'decrement' the body is possible precisely because the body is understood as an object for control and mastery rather than as an intrinsic part of the self. Quoting an anorexic's remark--'You make out of your body your very ( Read more... )

Things I am glad I have done in general with my life:Been decorated with Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches ( Read more... )

I wish I could chop off my hands and grow new ones. I try not to complain about eczema because it's not the end of the world, but it's only starting to heal after 2 months and it itches so bad I try to scratch it raw against my venetian blinds ( Read more... )

Girls do not joke about ponies. I want mine with a daisy chain to match my own. Flaxen hair and a love of The Facts of Life.

- I'm down to Earth. (or alternatively: "I'm real.")

We know you're on Earth, me too, and I am also not a hologram.

- Hit me up at...

I'll just call you.

- blah blah blah CINEMA blah blah

Can't you just say movie? I'll even take film.

- I feel very in tune with the vibrant culture.

That says it on it's own.

- Pfft, pretentious hipsters.(I'm ( Read more... )

Well aside from mental drama-tasm, I've set up my etsy shop! The cooler items are coming soon enough, check it outttt.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/Knitastrophy

A compliment or an insult when a man in a shawl seems to be jealous of my pants? I was dressed either butch or more accurately, closer to an effeminate man today.

That seems to be the look I'm gravitating towards lately: a gay man. I keep pining for a periwinkle matchstick suit with a Paul Smith plaid dress shirt. Is my body trying to tell me

Has anyone ever dreamt about reading a book they didn't have enough time to really read, then trying to restart the book again in some other dream only to wake up before you could really get into it ( Read more... )

I am so overwhelmed that I am on the verge of a nervous breakdown. I refuse to be volunteering for anybody's fucking projects next semester that waste hours and hours of my time. I want to go home for Christmas, I don't want to be here.