ALSO on my reading list:
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
and eventually I should get around to reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig, but it's low on my priority list right now. I think I'll like it though.

hollerrrrr

also: i think i actually do like explicating poetry. that is all.

I haven't been limping as much aaaand I'm doing better on some strength tests at therapy because, where I used to have this big painful pit on my condyle, I now have CARTILAGE! Basically, it is amazing, and for some reason it took me a little while (i.e. until my therapist mentioned it) to realize that my knee is functioning better because of the ( Read more... )

reading: The Count of Monte Cristo! by Alexandre Dumas
also reading soon: for English, Beloved by Toni Morrison but I think actually we changed our minds in favor of The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

to read in the near future:
1984 by George Orwell
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Absalom, Absalom! by William ( Read more... )

Today is the two-year anniversary of the last soccer game I played, the day I sprained my left ankle. I should buy myself some flowers to celebrate.

In The Washingon Post Style section, they have a wordplay contest every Sunday. The contest results published today were form a challenge to take the names of two horses entered in the Triple Crown and come up with a name for their offspring. THEY ARE SO CLEVER. Now, the next contest is to take any two of the "offspring" from this week's challenge ( Read more... )

"He who feels punctured must once have been a bubble."

<3

aaah this is so scary ( Read more... )

after coming across a picture in people with johnny depp in costume as sweeney todd, i am on a serious tim burton kick. i loved his charlie and the chocolate factory with johnny depp- it was so creepy, and the comedy was so dark. i want to rewatch that and watch:
o edward scissorhands
o nightmare before christmas
o beetle juice

Edward Scissorhands ( Read more... )

Earlier today my mom mentioned something about earaches, and how we had them all the time when we were little. "Wow," I said, "I haven't had an earache in like ten years ( Read more... )

sometimes it's really refreshing to spend time with people you don't know well, people with different backgrounds and different ideas then the ones to which you're accustomed. that is all.