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While you were sleeping
Lucy Moderatz (Bullock) is a lonely token collector in Chicago [young woman] who has had a long and intense crush on a handsome commuter [acquaintance] named Peter Callaghan (Gallagher). On [a holiday], she rescues him from [a near-death situation]... She is led to muse aloud, "I was[/am] going to marry him." [But this does not turn out to be true ( Read more... ) -
今のところ、気につくこと。
The flowers that filled up my room seem to have all wilted.
From my open window,
I can hear the sounds of a far-off baby crying out.
The echo of its sobbing reverberates
inside my heart, without stopping.
Without stopping. -
Not that I'm having mood swings, but.
Making a cup of hot chocolate, curling up with a blanket and a book. Perfect end to a wonderful day <3
The past two few days have been awesome. -
a year from now
I am going to be utterly alone.
Now that Shin and Nozomi are getting married, and moving to Kansai, and all the shingakusei are going to be sent out in hardly more than 16 months.... What will I have left? And who?
Already my best friends from the past three years have been drifting slowly away.
I don't want to start over again. I've already done that ( Read more... ) -
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Is it braver to keep your sorrow stuffed down and to keep going, or is it braver to show people you feel? And if you free yourself to feel your sorrow so openly, so uninhibitedly, how will you be able to draw back and be happy again? Is it ever, sometimes possible, that it is best just to pretend?
"There will come a time when you think everything ( Read more... ) -
Because I want to be happy.
I will take every dark morning, every blind afternoon for a few hours like this, when everything feels all right.
It's funny how sometimes "okay" isn't just good. It's wonderful. -
Love as a metaphor
I guess some people fall in love like they do in Spirited Away: they are plunging through the clouds, filled with vertigo and they should be terrified, but they're not. Everything is blue around them, perfectly clear. And then, when they should crash, they fly away instead.
You can fall out of love, too. Sometimes I think this happens a lot like the ( Read more... ) -
Reasons why this is the best week of my life (or something)
- Got a full-time job that sponsors my VISA... and didn't even have to DO ANYTHING (God did it!!)
- I finished the rough draft of the 140,000 word novel that has taken me four years (!!!)
- Got a brand-new yukata special designed and tailored for me (yeah new income!!!)
- Got tickets to America (business class!) and my friend from Japan will come with ( Read more... ) -
Break for coffee? Is there TIME for coffee?
Countdown to Montreal presentation: 12 days from now ( Read more... ) -
Age: 22
and it was so unfair of the phone, that it failed to connect us on the last night of the cherry blossoms, for reasons neither of us can explain -- when we could have drank to another year of my life, as the wind plucked out the straggling petals; the product of a year's anticipation ( Read more... )