Seeing pictures go up of haunted houses and trips to the pumpkin patch make me a little sentimental in a way I didn't expect. Man, if Halloween is making me sad, I don't even want to think about Thanksgiving.  Perhaps that will be a week I won't look at my newsfeed. Or I'll post a picture every day of some Italian amazingness that I'm eating here ( Read more... )

I accidentally tried on a maternity shirt at the Italian H&M.  Worse: I bought it anyways.

"Breathe through it, write a list of desires
Make a toast, make a wish, slash some tires
Paint a heart repeating, beating "don't give up, don't give up, don't give up."

Living in a foreign country and communicating in a foreign language is hard. I'm white, a citizen of a powerful country, and living in a Western society similar to my own and am ( Read more... )

"The dreams are rolling down across the places in my mind
And I've just had a taste of something fine

And you know that I'm looking back carefully
'Cause I know that there's still something there for me
But you said "Morocco" and you made me smile
And it hasn't been that easy for a long, long while
And looking back into your eyes I saw them really shine
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I understand now, that unwarranted feeling of being so happy with someone in the moment, yet sure that at any moment, its all going to fall through.

You know what I hate?

I hate people who make you atrificially feel special.   Friends who act like you're the only one who understands them, or guys that look at you like you're the only one they want to understand them.  Reality turns out to be, that it's all an act they create with every person they befriend.  Its genius really.  Treat everyone ( Read more... )

"A husband, a wife, and some kids is not a family.  Its a terribly vulnerable survival unit ( Read more... )

Two weeks of five hours of sleep a night ( Read more... )

Just about the time the shadows call ( Read more... )

you're funny.  funny in that pathetic way.  you really keep thinking that the difference in time and place is really going to change anything.

If I've learned one thing this semester it's this:
Time doesn't change shit.
Your choices, my choices, his choices, her choices--thats what makes change. 
Waiting for time to change your life just wastes life.
BE ( Read more... )