Sometimes I miss livejournal. I feel like I'm allowed to be as self-involved and whiny as I want here.

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you can only import a month at a time... i think i might just stop with december.

I'm somewhere between giving up and feeling really proud of myself. Growing up is scary.

On of the many pieces of this is that I'm still smoking. Sort of. Except that I'm not. And I'm asking everyone to call me out on it if I do. I made a list today of all the reason why I smoke. I can't believe how much stuff came up and how cathartic it was. It's ( Read more... )

This came via Shane. It's especially for Caroline. With love:

[except that i can't seem to embed this clip and i'm too impatient to work it all out tonight.]

I woke up hours before my alarm this morning and realized that I forgot to do my online homework last night before midnight. I've really been dropping the ball lately, making bad decisions, kicking myself. I sometimes go into self-sabotage mode as a way of validating what I see as imminent failure. I've been swimming in it since the breakup. It ( Read more... )

I was done wearing my political statements years ago, but today I really want to be wearing a shirt about how vandalism is not an arbitrary response to police brutality; that embedded within capitalism is racism and patriarchy; that police power and subsequent violence are legitimated by and for the protection of capitalist systems.

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Michel Tournier on Gilles Deleuze:
"The ideas we threw about like cottonwool or rubber balls he returned to us transformed into hard and heavy iron or steel cannonballs. We quickly learnt to be in awe of his gift for catching us red-handed in the act of cliché-mongering, talking rubbish, or loose thinking. He had the knack of translating, ( Read more... )

Today I relearned that staying in bed makes me a very grumpy monster. I love getting up before dawn! There's just so much to do ( Read more... )

The name of Josh's pre-Autokinoton band was Until the Setting of the Same. Whew ( Read more... )