ugh, damn IT. I've always wanted this journal to be a super-light thing where I could record little snippets of my life, not HUGE EPIC summaries of MONTHS worth of life-changing experiences. because no one really wants to read the latter, and it's excruciating to write as well. YET i manage EVERY TIME to let myself get lazy and build up all these ( Read more... )

wow ( Read more... )

ok... i swear, i swear, i swear that a real update is coming soon... within the next week maybe... but i have a (sort of not really) urgent question for lj-world ( Read more... )

many many words -- but for now, only five: all is full of love.

I had a dream last night in which I wrote the following sentences in navy oil pastel on a concrete wall ( Read more... )

I was resting on a bench in central park after an afternoon run, bathed in the pale-gold light that is so characteristic of this time of the year - the ice is melting, the temperatures are more bearable, and the city seems to be rising from its winter gloom ( Read more... )

lol oh man, this LA vs. NY article I found is great. and depressingly true ( Read more... )

damn, so dorian died of a heroin overdose last friday. not that I was super-good friends with him or anything remotely like that, but it's always weird when someone in your circle goes off in that way, especially when you've seen him around so much and spoken to him a few times. a lot of people are speculating that it was a suicide overdose ( Read more... )

wow, i don't even know how to start this post. any of you who have actually been reading my journal for the past couple of years can probably guess at which part of my little annual "cycle" I'm currently at right now, haha ( Read more... )

you know how, for the end of finals season, people ask, "so, are you sprinting to the finish or limping with a broken leg?" apparently some kid at columbia answered back, "I'm sprinting with a broken leg," which is pretty much my (and columbia students' in general) usual state of mind for this "most wonderful time of the year ( Read more... )