so this past week was pretty cool

tuesday= thai food and juno
wednesday= no teachers
thursday= awesome yale interview
friday=marsvolta with andrew and chris
saturday=juno and mcdonalds haha with alex and angela
sunday=procrastination up the wazoo
monday= SNOW DAY

I don't think I've ever been to such an unbelievably otherworldly show ever in my life. The Mars Volta is amazing.period. Their energy surpasses that of any other band I've ever seen live. Omar and Cedric and the drummer guy, and the flute guy SO GOOOOD. just pulsating. the crowd was ridiculous. i expected a bunch of yuppies but the place was ( Read more... )

As of yesterday I officially aplied to:

Amherst College
Umass
Boston U
NYU
Dartmouth College
Lesley University
Tufts University
Yale Univeristy

Lesley is rolling admissions and starts notifying Jan 15. So I should know if I'm going to college at all by the end of January. woohoo!

as of now I am rereading His Dark Materials series by Phillip Pullman and I am ( Read more... )

  I know I'm late but ( Read more... )

i feel like every day i lose another part of myself to school work and college. writing these essays is supposed to help me find myself. but what's the point of knowing who youa re if you're not that person anymore by the end of it all ( Read more... )

 
Due to my own natural oddity and the weirdness beset upon me by my awkward but well-meaning parents, I have always been an outsider. Growing up, when my sister and I were bored we would devise epics about paper-bag-faced pirate puppets and perform them for our parents from behind the ottoman. As an eight year old, my wish for a brand new bag in ( Read more... )

 
Petrarchan Hand Sonnet

They tell you everything you want to know,

One look at someone’s hands, one searching out

And of them you will surely have no doubt

About from where they come and where they go

And where they work and where they play, find out

About their likes, their fears, their scars. They’ll show

You ev’rything you want to know, hands glow

With ( Read more... )

 
I can feel the warmth of the plaster as it sets and the itch as it adheres to my knees, acquainting itself with their gesture. Like any nine year old I desperately want to scratch it, but the knowledge of the coming project reminds me I need to keep still so my structure will be stable.

What could a nine year old possibly want with plaster ( Read more... )

im going to die of a heart attack one day. from hyperstension. from being far too stressed and eating too many homemade hamburgers with lettuce tomato and pumpernickle bread and lots of ketchup.

every day i realize more and more that i no matter how hard i work, i'll never be satisfied.

i sit around and listen to people complain about their problems ( Read more... )

 
Hospitals are unique places where people with the highest degrees formal education can offer and those with hardly any high school education work harmoniously to ensure the proper functioning of the facility. At Mercy Hospital I see two different worlds.

As you may well know, part of my job entails delivering food upstairs to patients, giving me a ( Read more... )