there are two distinct kinds of goodbye-ers ( Read more... )

wandered into mica today, as it is the only place i know of that has both access to internet and to a printer. security guards surrounded me at the base of a staircase, asking for id, questioning why i was there. i explained the situation-- no, you have to be a student to use that. go away ( Read more... )

tonight, smells like.... damp city ( Read more... )

my mother gave me the velveteen rabbit for christmas, and i nearly cried reading it ( Read more... )

this is my recipie for successful college application essays: go to city cafe. get coffee. look up hula hoop web sites as the caffiene takes effect. enthusiasm will follow. learn about hula hoop troups in cities where i'm applying to college. now i'm that much more excited about applying ( Read more... )

it's official, i'm in love with the baltimore farmer's market.

six shifts at xs later ( Read more... )

ten months came and then it left and i spent the last two days driving across most of the united states. as we passed into west virginia and western maryland, east coast scenery became more distinct and there began to exist this anna-shaped crevasse that i felt myself nestling back into. (or perhaps an east coast-shaped crevasse in my brain) i ( Read more... )

the happiness now is wrapped up in the goodbye later. it's part of the deal. it's all one entity-- the gift and the giving away, the recieving and the payment, whatever form they take ( Read more... )

abandoned roller skates on mississippi's beach at ocean springs, claiming the skates when they were still there 24 hours later ( Read more... )