A little before 7 A.M. this morning, i stood shivering in the wooden stands of the ice hockey rink in sofees that felt too short and a sweatshirt that felt too clingy. Mist from the ice wafted to the stands as I rushed in three minutes late to find the team already started- "kangaroo" jumping the labrynth of staircases that comprise the rink. After ( Read more... )

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It is halloween night. In my dorm I listen to music, sift through my clothes and stare at pictures i've stared at a hundred times before that line my white cinderblock walls. This halloween was so removed from halloweens of the past- lacking in the building excitement for the candy and the costumes and the parties- the very quality that made it my ( Read more... )

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Sunday afternoon, about 2 o'clock. I just got up half an hour ago and after a survey of the fridge, decided that canned fruit is the safest path (five moldy strawberries). I'm sitting on my old laptop looking out the window to bustling Third Avuenue. David is still sleeping, Daddy is at the hospital and Mom is at the gym. This is a Sunday afternoon ( Read more... )

As fall decends upon middletown with its musky smell of the colored leaves carpeting the red brick pathways, the college mentality has similarly carpeted my head. I feel like I'm living in a dream ( Read more... )

In my philosophy class, we are reading Descartes and his 'question everything mentality'. He believed that we cannot prove our hands or real, our eyelashes, the computer screens we're reading this very moment, because they are simply sense impulses being intpreted by our brain, senses that at times deceive us and therefore could never be trusted. ( Read more... )

I love reading LJ, I can't help it, I quit for a while but then i come back and theres so muich to catch up on and its fantastic ( Read more... )

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I'm gonna stay eighteen forever
(cut me open)
So we can stay like this forever
(sun poisoned)
And we'll never miss a party
(this offer stands forever)
cause we keep them going constantly

This is wonderful.This is summer. This August. If we know anything, we know that it is a precursor to the year. Remember gavin and buster and and the turquoise of ( Read more... )