January 2012
17 posts
I'm so excited that it's Friday
I might not leave my house all weekend.
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“I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down...”
Things that linger:
The smell on your fingers from cutting the garlic with that dull knife.
Memories of spring.
Tiny bruises you don’t remember how you got.
Love you have for anyone. Literally anyone, no matter who. No one ever taught you how to stop loving once you start and you never have. Not anyone. Not once.
re-reading Catcher in the Rye
for my adolescent lit class this week. I wonder if I will like it as much as I did when I was 16. I think I would be sad if I re-read it and felt differently about it.
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Yesterday in the dumbest writing class I am...
a police officer told us we had all “just stopped suckin’ our mama’s titties,” someone stood on their head in the front of the class for as long as they could, and someone else played the mouth harp. My professor is constantly trying to make sure we aren’t intimidated by him, which just makes him come off as creepy to me, and he seems like he’s trying too hard...
“Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to...”
– Lemony Snicket (via imamalfoy)
the day before classes begin
and two of my profs still haven’t posted syllabi. Why does this make my over-planning control freak brain so anxious?
Is there anything worse than flossing?
(don’t answer that)
I am 25 and I have never used any kind of self control for any length of time. That’s the truth. I am bad at resolutions. I can’t count calories or weigh myself daily or put on make up in the mornings or dry my hair before I leave or wake up on time or hang my clothes up when they come out of the dryer or half the time remember to take them out of the dryer...
December 2011
24 posts
Movies watched for the first time in 2011
It was an ambition of mine to be less like the kind of person who never knows what movie you’re talking about, and more like the kind of person who has a vague memory of maybe seeing that film you’re talking about once. So, I decided at the beginning of the year to kind of track every new movie I saw. I’m sure I’ve missed some along the way and I still have never seen too...
WatchI took this sneaky video of Rachelle figuring out how to play Feist on the piano that one really nice night in December. You know that one that was so nice? In it you can hear me squeak along (sorry). I just want to say, I hope 2012 is full of more winter piano nights. They are some of my favorite memories. Even in my old Woodstock house when R would come visit and play around on Matt’s...
“We’re gonna press on, and we’re gonna have the hap, hap, happiest...”
Cystic Fibrosis Walk
(Me and my brother Jon at my high school graduation)
I’ve never done anything like this before, but yesterday I registered for the Great Strides walk for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation in March, and I am about to begin fundraising. I know that there are a lot of charities and organizations vying for your dollar this time of year, but this is an organization that is close to my heart. It will be...
“Hopes were wallflowers. Hopes hugged the perimeter of a dance floor in your...”
– ― Swamplandia!
“Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would...”
– ― Karen Russell, Swamplandia!
Christmas to do list:
Finish writing and mail the Christmas cards. Last I counted there were 44 of them. 1 going to Iceland!!
Bake cookies. LOTS of cookies!
Stone Mountain Christmas with mom this weekend.
Someone has to watch the following movies with me over hot chocolate and or egg(soy)nog:
Christmas Vacation A Christmas Story Meet Me in St. Louis The Royal Tenebaums
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another call for Christmas cards!
leave your address in my ask box! or send me an email!
November 2011
24 posts
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It's time for another edition of conversations...
Me, home for Thanksgiving about to leave to visit a friend from high school: Does this outfit look ridiculous?
Mom: No! You look like an Elf!
Me: ....
Mom: You look fun.
Me: ...
Mom: It really doesn't matter what you look like. You're meeting Autumn and she will always look like Hilary Swank.
“I see that the life of this place is always emerging beyond expectation or...”
– Wendell Berry, “Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition” (via soulsublime)
“—time is a tree(this life one leaf)
but love is the sky and i am for you
just...”
– e. e. cummings, from “[as freedom is a breakfastfood]” in Complete Poems (via proustitute)
